This course package includes the following:

• Online Coaching Orientation, Second Edition, course
• Online Coaching Orientation, Second Edition, certification test
• Online Sport First Aid, Fifth Edition, course
• Sport First Aid, Fifth Edition, ebook
• Online Sport First Aid, Fifth Edition, certification test
• Online IHSA State Component for Coaches course
• Online IHSA certification test

Coaching Orientation, Second Edition Online Course
Gleaning material from the Coaching Principles, Sport First Aid, and Coaching [Sport] Technical and Tactical Skills online courses and accompanying texts, Coaching Orientation, Second Edition Online Course, provides up-and-coming coaches with the essentials to step onto the field for the first time. It features interactive exercises, engaging graphics, poignant video vignettes, and a quick pace to form a course that is informative, eye-opening, and enjoyable.

This course will teach you how to develop your personal coaching philosophy and coaching objectives, recognize your role in helping your players develop good character, and evaluate and improve your communication skills. You’ll also learn how to build team chemistry, effectively teach and practice technical and tactical skills, and create instructional plans for the season and for individual practices.

After completing the course units, you’ll take the 50-question Coaching Orientation test online.

Sport First Aid, Fifth Edition Online Course
Sport First Aid specifically addresses conditions coaches encounter on the playing field. It provides coaches with clear guidelines on what’s expected of them as first responders, as well as action steps for the care and prevention of more than 110 athletic injuries and illnesses.

The course is based on Sport First Aid, Fifth Edition, and covers protocols for conducting emergency action steps and providing life support; conducting a physical assessment; administering first aid for bleeding, tissue damage, and unstable injuries; moving an injured athlete; and returning athletes to play.

The fifth edition also provides guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the Heimlich maneuver, and automated external defibrillators (AED). It offers information on treating concussions and heat-related illnesses as well as preventing and recognizing methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus infections (MRSA). Strategies for greatly reducing athletes’ risk of injury or illness are also featured.

After completing the course units, you’ll take the 75-question Sport First Aid test online.

IHSA State Component for Coaches
The IHSA-specific component provides information on policies, procedures, rules, and reporting requirements governing interscholastic sports in Illinois. This course concludes with a test on IHSA bylaws.

Upon successfully passing each course test in this package, you will be entered in 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.

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).

Coaching Orientation, Second Edition Online Course
Unit 1. Getting Started
Your Coaching Philosophy
Your Coaching Objectives
Coaching for Character

Unit 2. Building Relationships
Communication
Team Chemistry
Working With Others

Unit 3. Teaching Sport Skills
Effective Teaching
Technical and Tactical Skills
Sport-Specific Skills

Unit 4. Keeping Your Athletes Safe
Risk Management
Health and Safety
First Aid
Physical Fitness

Unit 5. Keeping It Organized
Season and Practice Plans
The Manager Coach

Unit 6. Summary
Cooling Down
What’s Next


Sport First Aid, Fifth Edition Online Course
Part I. Introduction to Sport First Aid
Unit 1. Your Role on the Athletic Health Care Team
Unit 2. Sport First Aid Game Plan

Part II. Basic Sport First Aid Skills
Unit 3. Anatomy and Sport Injury Terminology
Unit 4. Emergency Action Steps and Life Support
Unit 5. Physical Assessment and First Aid Techniques
Unit 6. Moving Injured or Sick Athletes

Part III. Sport First Aid for Specific Injuries
Unit 7. Respiratory Emergencies and Illnesses
Unit 8. Head, Spine, and Nerve Injuries
Unit 9. Internal Organ Injuries
Unit 10. Sudden Illnesses
Unit 11. Weather-Related Problems
Unit 12. Upper Body Musculoskeletal Injuries
Unit 13. Lower Body Musculoskeletal Injuries
Unit 14. Facial and Scalp Injuries
Unit 15. Skin Problems
Unit 16. Sport First Aid Field Clinic


IHSA State Component
Unit 1. School Information
Unit 2. State Coaching Information
Unit 3. What’s Next

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 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.