SHN5095 - Growth and Development of the Athlete

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

The module will take a multidisciplinary approach utilising disciplines of physiology, psychology, strength and conditioning and pedagogy to understand the developing young athlete.

The module will explore the growth and development of young athletes and link this to exercise performance throughout childhood and adolescence before moving on to explore approaches to identify talented young athletes and how coaches can optimally and safely develop these young athletes.

Examples of indicative content to include growth and maturation, performance profiling, safeguarding, participant development models and social needs of the young athlete.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 10
Intended Group Size: Full cohort

Seminars / Practical sessions
Hours: 15
Intended Group Size: Max 20

Guided independent study
Hours: 125

Further details relating to assessment
This module allows provides a variety of assessment opportunities to draw upon different student strengths. i.e. critical analysis and writing skills within the essay, and search, and synthesis of information for the group presentation.

The essay - will require students to draw upon their theoretical knowledge of one area studied within the growth and development module. It has been planned halfway through the first semester (an early assessment point) to allow students to maximise their chance of success and avoid clashes later in the semester. It will require students to consider ethical issues related the role of the coach.

Group assessment – This will require the students to negotiate a research area, and one not discussed in their individual essay. They will need to plan and deliver a group presentation based on an extension of the work covered in the seminars and practical sessions to demonstrate an understanding of the multi-disciplinary nature of coaching growing athletes.

Assessment:

001 Essay; 1,500 words; mid semester 1 50%
002 Negotiated group presentation; 30 mins; end of semester 1 50%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Lisa Gannon
Level - 5
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5S1

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