CHANGES
PLANNED TO
COACHING
COURSES
The FA has announced revised Level
1 and Level 2 Coaching in Football
courses.
The new qualifications will be
available from 1 August 2016 and are
designed to modernise the first steps
of The FA’s coaching pathway.
The purpose of the new courses is
to create a clear introduction to this
pathway, that is aimed at people who
want to coach as a volunteer at community club level, or aspire to make
football coaching a career. Both Level
1 and Level 2 courses have evolved
to help address the requirements of
the modern game, and have been
structured so coaches can enjoy a
more flexible and personal learning
experience.
Lasting up to four days, the majority
of the Level 1 course is spent developing the required coaching skills on
the field, with supportive tasks now
available digitally. Crucially, coaches
will now also be able to enjoy structured one-to-one guidance, from
Level 1 and beyond.
GRASSROOTS FOOTBALL
The new Level 2 course lasts ten
days over three different blocks of
learning and has been re-shaped to
better reflect what’s required to coach
specifically within youth football. It
combines content from the existing
FA Certificate in Coaching Football, with elements of the FA Youth
Award modules 1 & 2. It has been put
together with new content from The
FA’s coach competency model.
Both qualifications have been modernised to help ensure there is a consistency in how coaching courses will
be delivered at both the grassroots
and elite end of the game – from Level 1 to Pro Licence - linking co aching
modules to The FA’s England DNA
philosophy. Anybody over 16 wanting to learn the basic skills of coaching football can apply.
Head of Grassroots Delivery, Les
Howie said: “The modern day coach
is ever evolving and these changes
represent a significant shift in helping
us be able to develop the quality of
our grassroots coaching.
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“The new Level 1 course provides
more individual guided support
throughout, and will help the coaches
develop an understanding of their
own ability. Many coaches have a
real enthusiasm and aspiration to
work in the game and continue their
way through the coaching pathway,
which is fantastic. By taking the key
elements of the previous Level 2 and
Youth Award courses, we are enabling them to do that.
“We know that the grassroots game
already has a number of talented
young players in the system, and we
want to be able to increase that with
more quality coaches working with
them in youth football.
“However, we also know that a large
majority of our grassroots coaches
just want to be able to enjoy coaching
their local team. Making sure they
can develop, improve and learn as
coach while enjoying their football is
vital. These new courses reflect our
ambition to help them achieve that.”
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