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Week 1: Assessments
We warm-up by approaching assessments from a skill, psychological, and behavioral perspective. Students will be introduced to many assessment tools for their arsenal.
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Week 2: Focused Practice
Practice is the most important method in preparing athletes and teams; however, efficiency is underutilized by many coaches due to a lack of specificity and focus within their practice routine. Students will gain a new perspective on how to maximize practice through the seven dimensions of applied behavior analysis.
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Week 3: In Game/Post Game Analysis
We have gathered all of the statistics, but how do we make adjustments during competition and how do we correct the mistakes our athletes made after we reviewed the film? Students will learn how to examine game statistics with their own pinpointed behaviors to unravel trends based on existing conditions and variables in competition.
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Week 4: Ethical Considerations of Practice within Sports Coaching & Introduction to Sports OBM
First, a lively discussion on ethical sports coaching practices and how it looks for the ABA professional; then, we end with an introduction to how OBM works in sports at the highest level, while examining peer reviewed research that is applicable to those stakeholders.
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Week 5: Guest Speaker
TBA
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Week 6: Guest Speaker
TBA