CLUBSKILLSGUIDE
his Club Skills Guide is designed
for clubs and national league
teams whose primary focus is
not only to play the game, but to also
teach the game and its fundamental
skills. The guide has been designed
as the minimum standard of teaching
and coaching basketball at club level
in the UK.
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Areas of Emphasis: Guidelines for
Coaches* remains the first step in
refocusing and coordinating basketball
coaching in the UK. This Club Skills
Guide provides a link between the
areas of emphasis (AoE) and coaching
at club level.
Together they form only a part of the
greater solution for more effective
basketball teaching and coaching, with
the aim being to springboard British
basketball to higher standards of player
development and performance when
combined with extensive player
development programmes focused on
teaching the basic skills and techniques.
Each and every coach should reflect on
their coaching and set about improving
their own teaching and coaching at all
levels. If our players’ learning improves,
we will have done our job.
All coaches will need to develop good
evaluation and analysis skills to ensure
improvement. With a more concise
focus derived from these guidelines
we will be directed on a path and
process to coach better-skilled British
basketball players.
* Areas of Emphasis: Guidelines for Coaches is a curriculum document aimed at leaders of the coaching community. There are
two sections to the document and each of the eight AoE has a number of recommendations appropriate to each level of
organisation (ie national). There are concepts and basic principles that underpin the AoE, and five themes for implementation.
The AoE recommendations for clubs form the basis of the Club Skills Guide. They are provided to guide coaches with
specific considerations for action. You can view the AoE document at
http://img.basketballengland.co.uk/media/BasketballEnglandWeb/Docs/CoachingOfficiating/AOE2015.pdf
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