The Coach’s Guide to Teaching

The Coach’s Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov, published by John Catt Educational, Limited in 2020, offers insights into the intersection of education and sports coaching. This 252-page book emphasizes the importance of continuous learning for coaches, paralleling the skills of effective classroom teachers with those required on the field. Lemov draws on his expertise in classroom teaching to address the unique challenges coaches face, highlighting the relevance of educational science in developing coaching techniques.
Readers will find practical lessons and guidance applicable to various levels of coaching, from parent volunteers to professional trainers. The book aims to dispel common myths in coaching by providing a research-based approach to teaching in sports. By focusing on the science of learning, Lemov seeks to elevate the standards of coaching across different sports, ensuring that coaches are equipped with the necessary tools to foster growth and excellence in their athletes.
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The mark of a great coach is a constant desire to learn and grow. A hunger to use whatever can make them better.
The best-selling author of Teach Like a Champion and Reading Reconsidered brings his considerable knowledge about the science of classroom teaching to the sports coaching world to create championship caliber coaches on the court and field.
What great classroom teachers do is relevant to coaches in profound ways. After all, coaches are at their core teachers.
Lemov knows that coaches face many of the same challenges found in the classroom, so the science of learning applies equally to them. Unfortunately, coaches and organizations have a mixed level of understanding of the research and study of the science of learning. Sometimes coaches and organizations build their teaching on myths and platitudes more than science. Sometimes there isn’t any science applied at all.
While there are thousands of books and websites a coach can consult to better understand technical and tactical aspects of the game, there is nothing for a coach to consult that explicitly examines the teaching problems on the field, the court, the rink, and the diamond. Until now.
Intended to offer lessons and guidance that are applicable to coaches of any sporting endeavor including everyone from parent volunteers to professional coaches and private trainers, Lemov brings the powerful science of learning to the arena of sports coaching to create the next generation of championship caliber coaches.
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