KIN 345 Midterm Questions

1. Identify how and why the Canadian government is involved in sport - Offers opportunities for all canadians to participate in sport - Offers sport for developing and elite athletes - Offers sport for the general population to live a healthy and active lifestyle - The Canadian government is the single largest investor in Canada’s amateur sport system - Mission to Enhance opportunities for all Canadians to participate and excel in sport - All canadians have access to activities (recreational to elite), facilities (recreational to elite), and safe delivery (professional training) - Heritage Canada (Department of the government of Canada) has roles and responsibilities related to initiatives that support “Canadian identity and values” such as sport and an active lifestyle - Access to sport programs as part of a healthy and active lifestyle - Help athletes participate and succeed in competitions 2. Identify and define the 4 coaching styles - Driver: someone who takes charge and wants solutions - Control, decisive, impatient, results driven - Extroverted thinker - Analytical: someone who values accuracy and details - Process focused, logic driven, skeptical, objective - Introverted thinker - Expressive: someone who thrives on fun and excitement and loves to be around other people - Likes recognition, not detailed, talkative, emotionally driven - Extroverted feeler - Amiable: someone who is warm and friendly and wants everyone to get along and be happy - Avoids conflict, relationship driven, consistency, loyal - introverted feeler 3. Identify and define the 2(4) coaching types - Autocratic type coach: creates highly controlled coach directed movement - Characteristically directs the trainings by orders during which the athletes are not involved in the decisions - Coach does not collaborate with the athletes - For athlete development - Autocratic telling: what needs to be done and how it needs to be done - Autocratic selling: what needs to be done and explain why (confirm understanding) - Democratic type coach: creates a coach-athletes collaborative environment - Most athlete-centric attitude - Catered for elite athletes

- Democratic sharing: outline what needs to be done and ask for input - final decision is the coaches - Democratic allowing: outlines what needs to be done and asks athletes how it will be accomplished - athletes define the how 4. Identify and define 2 types of motivation - Intrinsic motivation: refers to doing something because it is inherently interesting or enjoyable - Participating in sport “for the love of the game” rather than competing to win an award - Extrinsic motivation: refers to doing something because it leads to a separable outcome - Participating in sport for external rewards such as scholarships, media coverage, accolades - Or to avoid negative consequences such as being benched, falling out of favour with coaches, disapproval with parents - External rewards can enhance or detract from one’s internal motivation - Prevented by varying content and sequence in practice drills - variety can increase fun and keep athletes more focused and interested in learning skills - Giving responsibility to participants for decision making adds to their feelings of personal accomplishment and involvement 5. Identify and define Amateurism and Professionalism in Canadian Sport - Amateur athletes are players who never pursued sport as a livelihood and participated without remuneration on any kind - Amateur athletes vary from basic to advanced skills - Olympics were for amateur athletes until the 1990s - Most Canadian athletes do not participate in elite sport to make money (participate in sport for the glory) intrinsic motivation - Professional athletes are players that have the will and ability to earn an income from playing a particular sport - These athletes play only at the advanced level of their sport - Participate in sport as a profession - Get paid for training and competing - Get paid for performance - Considered a full-time job/career - In early 20th century, majority of active sportsmen where white, able-bodied centric men from the upper strata of society and garrison officers - Sport was largely controlled by upper classes

- Children should not participate in organized sports prior to age 6 or specialize in sports prior to age 14 8. Identify and define the 6 coaching domains as identified by the ISCF Participant coaching - Coaching children (sampling phase) - Set vision and strategy - Coaching adolescents - Shape the enviroment - Coaching adults - Build relationships Performance coaching - Coaching emerging athletes - Comes after coaching children - Conduct practices and prepare for competition - Coaching performance athletes - Read and react to the field - Coaching high-performance athletes - Learn and reflect 9. Identify and define DMSP - Developmental Model of Sport Participation: identifies participation/recreation and performance trajectories in sport - Sampling phase (6-12 years): children take part in different activities and develop all-round foundational movement skills in an environment characterized by fun and enjoyment - Fun, exciting, - influenced by parents/caregivers, - fundamental movement skills, - no specialization yet - Specialization phase (13-15 years): children begin to focus on fewer sports, possibly favoring one in particular - moving from sampling to emerging athletes to performance - Focusses on fewer sports, - start sport specific development, - balance on fun and seriousness - Practice time is increasing, - practice time is vital - Investment phase (16+ years): young athletes commit to achieving a high level of performance in a specific sport - moving from performance to high performance - Moving towards and achieving elite status in single sport - Development of strategic and competitive skills - Maximum practice time

10. Identify and define the “rule of 2” - The coach should never be out of sight or alone with a child - 2 NCCP trained or certified coaches should always be present with an athlete - All one-on-one interactions between a coach and an athlete must take place within earshot and in view of a 2nd coach except in medical emergencies - One of the coaches must be the same gender as the athlete - If a 2nd coach is not available then a screened volunteer, parent, or adult can be recruited 11. Compare and contrast Abuse of privilege and conflict of interest as discussed in class Abuse of privilege: sport coach is privileged to have regular contact with athletes and occasionally to travel and reside with athletes in the course of the season - Coach must not attempt to exert undue influence over the athlete in order to obtain personal benefit or reward - Beaches must consistently display high personal standards and project favourable image of their sport and coaching to athletes, parents/families, other coaches, officials, spectators, the media and the public - Coaches have an obligation to project an image of health, cleanliness and functional efficiency Conflict of Interest: occurs when someone is in a position to make a decision that affects him/herself to gain over others - anyone that they oversee or even an enemy - Conflict of interest is a situation, therefore disclosing such conflict cannot be constructed as an admission of guilt - Common test to verify: a reasonable person not involved in the situation might think that certain factors, unrelated to the issues to be decided, are likely to influence a decision-maker’s judgment - May included concepts such as friendship, love, envy, ambition, prestige, and monetary gain My understanding, in basic terms, is that abuse of power of privilege is when one party uses his/her power to influence athletes in order gain a benefit for themselves or their organization, while conflict of interest I think is when there is two parties for example, and one party does something to gain a benefit while leaving the other party at a lesser than if that makes sense.