PORTFOLIO 4
Pop Culture Magazine Article
COACHING TEENAGERS IN CANADA TODAY
Students write and publish an article for a "Pop Culture" Magazine of their choice, or their creation. The author forms a strong opinion about appropriate coaching of teenagers in Canada today. The article focuses on a certain age group, a specific level of competition, gender, and experience (other). Interviews, research, observation and personal reflection can help to add "spice" to the article and to support the authors main thesis statement. Photos, creative presentation of information, and writing style will help to make the article interesting to the ( ages 17 - 40 ) target Pop Culture audience.
Principles and Practices Ch 21, and Class Notes and Discussion Philosophy of Sport Class Notes and Discussions Sociology of Sport Ch 29-32 Class Notes and Discussions Psychology of Sport Ch 20, and Class Notes and Discussions
- Interviews (at least two)
- Sport Observation Live (at least two)
- Plus additional research for all topics as required, books, magazines,the internet etc
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
All sources must be consistently cited in your Bibliography. EVERY internet cite, book, article, interview etc, from which you take an idea fact etc and enter it into your article must be in your bibliography, AND ACTIVELY CITED THROUGHOUT YOUR ARTICLE.
...as Smith and Jones explained in their book Curling for Children (143) the main...
...another point that Mr.Gretzky made later on in our interview was that Tom O'Grady can still play in the N.H.L. today with his skill and ...
...while surfing the net I found an absolutely Craptacular website, and was not surprised to find...
...and the Elliot Lake Swim Club indeed practice head butting as a pre-swim ritual, as observedon Dec 5, 2009 at the Copper cliff Aquatic Clubs Annual Blue Marlin Swim competition. The coach, a tall Finn, would approach the athletes and...
THESIS STATEMENT / paragraph
You need to create a "catch phrase" statement in the first paragraph that will draw the reader in to read your entire article. It needs to include the important information: age group, level of competition, gender (or co-ed), sport, OFSAA Sanctioned or club, high school or community, history of athletes etc. Once that is established you need to make your thesis statement. You will then creatively use all of your research to help prove your point.
Your statement will also demonstrate sound understanding of Coaching Principals and Practices as per our class notes, text material, and discussions. HERE IS A SAMPLE (be it a good or bad coaching idea, it is still a good thesis paragraph)
Children aged 8 - 10 can join a summer softball league in Elliot. Any athlete who registers and pays is welcome to play. No experience is required, and thus an authoritarian coaching style will certainly be the best way for your team to win the most games possible! An autocratic form of leadership will help the athletes to out-run, out-hit, and out-catch their opposition. A team can use strategies and tactics that take advantage of the other teams weaknesses all the while remembering that "no pain means no gain". The starters will play until the mercy rule has been implemented by the umpire, and then the spares will be put in to finish off the other team.
BODY OF ARTICLE
You will then go on to creatively prove your thesis statement. Your interviews will support your point of view, and provide entertaining examples or stories. Your sport observations will also provide interesting and cool examples from live sport.
You are to also DEMONSTRATE your understanding of key psychology, philosophy, and sociology of sport ideas and information. Try to weave these concepts logically through your article as you continue to creatively prove your point.
You can have slight "side-bar" discussions in your article. For example, ...while I was talking with Coach Quinn, I asked him about the legal liabilities involved with coaching at this level...or for example...during my research on the ethics of the winning versus losing paradox, I stumbled on a study by sociologist Susan VonNausholm. In her study of 500 minor hockey games she found that...
Feel free to discuss the other side of the coin on contentious issues, and then explain how you do not believe in these points of view. Discuss how history has witnessed an evolution in pedagogy or styles, or practices etc.
CONCLUSION
Certainly you need to finish your article with a paragraph the summarizes your main points and how you have proven your point.
PORTFOLIO # 4Coaching
/60
Complete Hard Copy of Assignment Handed in /10
(includes photos / creative display of info)
Overall impression of hard copyTwo interviews clearly organized, questions clearly prepared /5
ahead of time, help to make the project more interesting and COOL!
The article is truly entertaining to the Pop Culture Audience /5observations of live sport, that actually occurred, that help /5
to make your point, and help to make the paper more entertaining
and valid
Addressing the goals of the assignment /30