Tottenham’s John Allpress: the three different types of learning happening in every coaching session
Player | Learning | John Allpress | 20.10.21
Tottenham Hotspur head of academy coach development, John Allpress, discusses how players learn during coaching sessions and the coach’s role in shaping habits and attitudes towards learning. Getty Images/Gallo images
Learning:
- How players learn during coaching sessions
- Recognising when players are in learning, practice, or performance mode
- The role of the coach in shaping habits and attitudes towards learning
In every coaching (teaching) session three different kinds of learning are going on at the same time:
1. Players are learning to know and understand things. For example: technical knowledge they have to grasp and maintain like ‘punching their passes’; body shape to receive and see more to play forward; going low into tackles to win their skirmishes, or keeping their eyes open to head the ball.
These things are all quite easy for the coach to see. It is knowledge and quite easy to assess if the players have ‘got it’ and can do it.
