Critical discussion

My critical discussion

Before going on to talk about how my critical discussion went, I am firstly going to talk about how I preferred this type of assignment.

The critical discussion I feel is a better type of assignment than a typical essay or presentation. It allows a number of people to talk over past events and express their feelings. When writing an essay I feel I often get stuck on what to write, but in this type of assignment feelings come out more and it’s easier to express feelings with the group rather than focusing on academic writing.

For the assignment we had to conduct a practical session and then evaluate how it went.

Prior to the delivery of the coaching session we had planned what and how we were going to coach. We then discussed how we were going to review and evaluate our session once it had taken place. As I have been on the sports analysis module I felt the best way to evaluate our session was to film it and then use the Coaching cycle by Hughes et al (2008). This cycle shows how analysis can be incorporated into the reviewing of a session. It provides objective data as video footage shows the events as and when they happened. Because of this we decided that one of the members of the group will film the session.

 

 

This choice paid off as after the coaching session we watched the recorded footage and analysed our session. We then prepared notes and academic research for the discussion.

Once in the discussion I feel it ran very smoothly, we talked over our strengths, weaknesses and how we could improve the session which was a great way to reflect upon a coaching session. For this assignment I received a mark of 65% which I was very happy with.

Even though my discussion went well, there could be issues with this type of assessment. Depending on who’s in your group, there could be one member who prefers talking and therefore other members of the group could be shadowed out and find it hard to get their points across and therefore costing themselves marks.

References

Hughes, M. Franks, I. (2008) The essentials of performance analysis, an indrocuction. Pp3 and 4.