IHSA Coaching Orientation 3rd Edition Online Course

This package includes the following:

• Online reading assignments, video clips, and activities
• Online Coaching Aid documents
• Online Coaching Orientation test
• Online IHSA certification test

IHSA Coaching Orientation, Third Edition Online Course, provides coaches the knowledge base to coach their teams competently and confidently. Containing the essential content from Successful Coaching, Fifth Edition, and Sport First Aid, Sixth Edition, the course teaches coaches not only how to meet their responsibilities but also how to provide positive experiences to their athletes and promote their development. The result is a dynamic, time-efficient, and information-rich online course focused on what new coaches need to know most.

This third edition of the course is a completely revised and refreshed presentation, offering an engaging learning experience and the most up-to-date coaching methods and first-aid protocols. The course features the following:

• Coaching scenarios requiring understanding of the text excerpts as you apply the content to common practice and game situations
• Video segments providing further insight into key subjects to reinforce key coaching principles and to encourage best practices
• Coach development activities fostering better understanding and effective applications of the material
• Short end-of-unit quizzes testing to confirm comprehension of content

After completing the course units, you’ll take the 50-question Coaching Orientation test online. Upon successfully passing the test, you will be entered into the National Coaches Registry, an online listing of coaches who’ve completed Human Kinetics Coach Education courses. Sport administrators have access to the registry, allowing them to track coaches’ course completion.

A supplemental course component is included with IHSA Coaching Orientation covering IHSA bylaws, policies, and procedures. Coaches are tested on this content separately as part of the IHSA’s certification requirements.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Develop a personal coaching philosophy and coaching objectives
• Evaluate and improve communication skills
• Build team chemistry and motivate athletes
• Manage athletes’ behavior using positive discipline methods and team rules
• Work effectively with administrators, officials, parents, and the media
• Teach and practice technical and tactical skills
• Promote muscular fitness and nutritional habits
• Create plans for the season and individual practices
• Recognize legal responsibilities related to managing risk
• Ensure the safety of athletes, including working with other members of the athletic health care team, developing an emergency action plan, and assessing and attending to injuries, concussions, and heat illness
• Understand IHSA-specific information on policies, procedures, rules, and reporting requirements

The estimated time to complete the course and its online exam is six hours. The estimated time to complete the IHSA bylaws online exam is two hours. The time required will vary based on the individual coach’s reading speed and study habits.

Audience

Illinois high school coaches, serious club coaches, college and university undergraduate students, and advanced coaches at the youth level (athletes age 14 and older).

Part I. Leading

Unit 1. Developing Your Coaching Philosophy

Unit 2. Determining Your Coaching Objectives

Unit 3. Coaching Style and Team Culture

Part II. Relating

Unit 4. Communicating Effectively

Unit 5. Motivating Positively

Unit 6. Disciplining and Rewarding Strategically

Part III. Teaching

Unit 7. Planning for Athletes’ Optimal Learning

Unit 8. Instructing Athletes in Technical Skills

Unit 9. Instructing Athletes in Tactical Skills

Unit 10. Practicing Techniques and Tactics in Gamelike Situations

Part IV. Training

Unit 11. Understanding Physical Training Principles

Unit 12. Developing Athletes’ Energy Fitness

Unit 13. Building Athletes’ Muscular Fitness

Unit 14. Advising Athletes to Meet Their Nutritional Needs

Part V. Managing

Unit 15. Operating Your Team

Unit 16. Establishing Relationships

Unit 17. Addressing Your Legal Risks

Part VI. Responding

Unit 18. Understanding Your First Aid Role

Unit 19. Game Planning for Sport First Aid

Unit 20. Taking Proper Emergency Action

Unit 21. Assessing and Moving Injured and Ill Athletes

Unit 22. Addressing Concussions and Heat Illnesses

Certification Exam

Established in 1981 and rooted in an athlete-centered philosophy that places the developmental needs of athletes ahead of winning at all costs, Human Kinetics Coach Education courses and resources are customized and widely used by youth sport organizations, state high school associations, school districts, state departments of education, colleges and universities, and national governing bodies of Olympic sports to teach, train, and certify coaches.