Georgia Knockouts

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Georgia Knockouts

• By Panda Smith

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Team Information

• Organization AAU basketball team (Amateur
  Athletic Union)
• Members David Shippey, Coach, Wade Mason,
  Captain, Daulton Pope, Capain, Sean Shippey,
  Brent Mason, Ethan Powers, Colton Pollard, Nick
  Walker, Kelton Hunt, Lavonte Morring, Rashaun
  Dobbs, Tyreke Dobbs
• I observed, on a sporadic schedule, Coach Shippey
  teach and motivate a boys basketball team. I
  have done observation with this coach previously,
  and assumed he had a baseball team this spring
  and I would be an assistant. However, he has a
  basketball team and I know nothing about it, so I
  became an interested observer in his methods of
  instruction.
• They usually practice at the Bremen High School
  gym, but occasionally workout at the recreation
  department. The team is comprised of boys that
  are fourteen and fifteen years old. They vary in
  height from under five feet to just over six
  feet.

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Is Coaching teaching?

• At the start of the season, Coach Shippey had a
  cookout to promote team unity among both parents
  and players
• Plays that are a huge success in one practice or
  game may be a disaster with the next one, so
  adaptations must be made on the fly
• Differentiated Instruction The players differ
  from one another in many ways ( intelligence,
  learning style, ethnicity, social class
• Coach expectancy is high for all players

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Age Level Characteristics

• Physical Some have reached physical maturity and
  attained puberty
• Social Peers influence immediate status
• Cognitive Capable of formal thought, but not
  always use this capability

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Typical for Age Level

• Their age would place them within in Eriksons
  Identity versus role confusion age.
• Most exhibit several characteristics of 3 of
  James Marcias identity statuses Identity
  diffusion, foreclosure, and moratorium.
• Behaviors exhibited disorganized, impulsive,
  difficulty with problems under stress, feeling
  superior to peers, depending on approval from
  authority figures, daydreams, dissatisfied with
  school, etc

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Diverse Group of players

• They vary in psychosocial and cognitive
  development, mental ability, thinking style,
  achievement, ethnic background and social class
• They come from Carrollton, Ranburne, Bremen,
  Villa Rica, so no have no automatic team loyalty.
• In fact, several have played against each other
  in rec and school ball

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Applying Ericksons Theory of Psychosocial
Development

• Coach Shippey presents tasks that they can
  successfully complete and
• Gives recognition and praises accomplishments

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Piagets theory of cognitive development

• They are in the formal operational stage, so are
  able to deal with abstractions, form hypotheses,
  solve problems systematically, and engage in
  mental manipulations
• Most of these guys have played ball before, so
  they have learned adaptation. As it happens
  slowly, a good deal of time is spent practicing.
• They assimilate the new plays into their existing
  schemes
• Sometimes they must accommodate new concepts that
  the coach puts forward
• Unlike Piaget, Coach Shippey does not
  overestimate their capabilities

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Vygotskys theory of cognitive development

• Scientific concept allow students to manipulate
  their environment consciously and systematically
• Well-designed instruction is like a magnet. If it
  is aimed slightly ahead of what children know and
  can do at the present time, it will pull them
  along and help them to master new skills

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Scaffolding / Mark Tappan

• Model desired behavior. Children imitate
  behaviors
• Create a dialogue with the student. An exchange
  of questions, explanations, and feedback between
  coach and child
• Practice.
• Confirmation. To confirm others is to bring out
  the best in them by focusing on what they can do

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Operant Conditioning / B F Skinner

• Positive Reinforcement Praise, recognition, and
  playing time
• Negative Reinforcement Remove an unpleasant
  stimulus (sitting on the bench)
• Punishment Scolding, time-out, extinction
  (rarely)
• Variable schedule of reinforcement

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Character Education

• Be a Team player
• Be respectful
• No verbal abuse toward team mates or other team,
  however trash-talking does come from a couple
  of players
• No cursing
• Win or lose, shake hands at the conclusion of the
  game

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Conclusion

• Although not typical classroom subjects, learning
  on many levels is happening
• Therefore, coaching is teaching