Review of semester one

Review of semester one

Below is part of my very first blog post shows my aims and objectives:

'What are your main aims/objectives for the module (based on point 1)?

 

My main aims for this module are to reflect on every coaching session I coach. Every time I post a weakness on a coaching session, I hope to reflect on this weakness and see how I can improve on it and reduce the chance of it happening again. Such as being more prepared, more informative etc. Having spoken about my weaknesses above, I also want to look at these and once the module is over, hope that these are no longer weaknesses of mine.'

Being half way through the course I am going to reflect on semester one and talk about how I feel I have done in relation to my first blog objectives.

Firstly it is to be said that I have not posted major amounts of blogs during semester one. However this does not mean that I haven’t been reflecting on my coaching.

Since I know I have to reflect on my coaching I feel I have improved with the way I delivery my coaching sessions and I feel generally more confident whilst coaching. After a session I will often reflect to myself in my head on how the session went which is a new experience to me as I have never done this before. I feel that this is why I am becoming more confident. By doing this, if I make an error during a coaching session I am reflection upon in immediately whereas before this reflection process, I would probably not think about it and let errors pass by. When reflecting upon errors made, I look into how they occurred and what I could have done to prevent them happening. It is always the case that minor changes to my coaching could have changed these errors and therefore since I have reflected – I can see the errors happening less and less.

For example – I was coaching a drill which no one understood, but I insisted that the drill will continue which took more time than it was worth looking back on it, which took up valuable coaching time. From this I learnt that I should plan more than enough for each coaching session, by doing this if drills are too hard then I can change to a plan B and swiftly move on which saves time during the coaching session.

Therefore overall I feel I am on target with my aims and objectives set at the beginning of the year, I am reflecting on every session in which I lead and by doing this, I am seeing clear improvements in my coaching styles and the ways I deliver a session. I am happy with the way in which I am reflecting after a session but I must remember to post about it rather than just thinking about it.