Sports Leadership toolkit

by Danny Cowley

The resource develops the provision of this leadership course and dramatically improves the learning experience of the pupils. The resource pack can have a huge impact on a Physical Education departments' curriculum, helping to achieve many of the strands of the Physical Education, School Sport and Clubs Links (PESSCL) strategy that was launched by the government in October 2002.

How do you structure the scheme

The Sports Leadership Toolkit is divided into four colour sections:

• Section One: Setting up the course
• Section Two: Module A
  Twenty x 1 hour lesson plans that fulfil the following 6 units:
  • Unit 1 - Planning, preparing and assisting a simple sporting activity
  • Unit 2 - Basic communication skills for leading a sporting activity
  • Unit 3 - Principles and practice in delivering a basic health and fitness session
  • Unit 4 - Understanding fair play in sport
  • Unit 5 - Understanding the role of the sports official.
  • Unit 6 - Understanding the scope of local sport and recreation activities
• Section Three: Module B
• Section Four: All lesson handouts and data CD

Each section has been solely written for the teacher responsible and tackles the key questions regarding the delivery of the Sports Leaders Level 1 Award course. The three sections strategically cover important periods throughout the course. The resource pack has been designed so that it can be easily adapted to ensure it takes account of the different facilities and equipment available, ability of pupils following the course, aims of the Physical Educations department involved.

The Sports Leadership toolkit has been designed so that the teacher delivering the course can take out the relevant lesson plan from the folder and refer to it as they are teaching. There are also resources such as application and assessment forms, certificates and recording frameworks that can be reproduced by the teacher delivering the course.