Precise training strategies
Precise Training Strategies--Suprusr (discuss • contribs) 19:16, 26 July 2013 (UTC) What is Precise Training Strategies
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Precise Training Strategies (PTS)merges Brain Based research proven teaching strategies with the conventional soccer coaching practices [1]
There are 10 strategies that any coach can easily introduce into any athletic of academic teaching session. Currently Matthew is attending Arizona State University Master of Interdisciplinary Studies to focus on publishing the components of PTS, working with coaches and players of all ages and looking for venues to explore the power of teaching in a way the brain craves.
"PTS allows players to learn content in such a way that the content is not the end result of the learning, it is simply a tool used to solve a problem presented to the player in stressed game play. This is analogous to the blinking of an eye. The eye blink due to debris, a player takes in the information of the field then processes the information and develops an intervention. Then acts out the intervention. The system the starts over again.
PTS looks at sport instruction a a fluency in a discourse like reading or language, if we choose to teach on this higher plan then we will produce more significant and reliable results in the last 5 minutes of the game that is the most important game of the players life, rather than the player failing to produce a creative, fundamentally sound and successful intervention."
Development
Precise Training Strategies was developed by Matthew Smith In Glendale Arizona in 2009 out of the need to reconcile a request from a director of coaching at a youth soccer training facility Arizona Sports Complex. The director said "Coaches must act like teachers". Matt Smith had just finished 6 years of schooling to become a teacher and was in his first year as a teacher. Matthew knew that it can take up to 10 years to become a competent teacher so went home to look for resources on how to coach like a teacher.
There were no resources on the web, books or DVD studied related to how to give information to a athlete in a coaching setting. All the information was what the athlete should do such as mechanical position of the foot when striking the ball.
Around the same time Matthew was involved with a consultant group out of Chandler Arizona called HR Service Solution. The consultant introduced Matthew to the practice of how what you communicate with students and manage expectation can significantly increase learning outcomes. Later this would turn into precise language and precise questioning and the high quality Learning environments.
Brain Based Research Learning Sport like Learning Language
[2] significantly influenced Matthew understanding of how talent is grown in athletes. Matthew has corresponded with Daniel Coyle via email as Dan was excited to here the results of the work and study. The Talent Code introduced Matthew to the concept of myelination and deep practice as experienced in talent hot bed throughout the world.
That night at a training Matthew used the strategy with a group of 18 5 year old soccer players. Changing the sentences structure and introducing what is now called selective stress turned the heads of 18 5 year old players during the opening set of a training session. "after that moment when I saw all of their heads go from looking around the arena to me I realized I had come on something so powerful that would change the way we teach, it was not a devise or a clapping or a saying I simply provided the information in a way the brain craved and found interesting, then added in selective stress and a gratification element, like a challenge that every child wanted to participate in and have success."
Over the next four years the PTS would be tested, augmented, and validated through action research in the classroom and on field training sessions.