SMART Goal –
For next year I would like to be able to gain more coaching experiences within different sporting backgrounds, for example working with badly behaved children or secondary school kids. The reason for this is that by the time I graduate I would like to be able to coach young athletes that are aspiring to become elite athletes. Whether this be achieved at a school or a coaching club. As we have opportunities within the university to sign up for extra coaching, this goal can start to be achieved by applying to the correct field into which I want to progress my coaching and also by re-evaluating if the pathway is still the right one to go down for my future prospect. Taking this forward I believe that this experience will give me more knowledge I need to develop as a coach and with it being my third year of university, I know that this will help me progress throughout my final year of studying, leading to the preliminary steps to becoming better prepared for my future prospects. I would like to achieve this goal by the end of my third year at university, because I believe that participating in this extra curriculum can not only better my coaching, but entitle experiences to me which can help lead me into different pathways for possible jobs. This will widen my coaching behaviours to further extents and will also prepare me for the worst case scenario’s when it comes to working with youths.
This goal is achievable in the way that I have the start of the year to sign up for extra coaching and put my CV out to schools and business’s, by putting myself out there it will provide me with a wide range of different coaching opportunities. As this is relevant to what I want to achieve by the end of university, in completing this goal it will give me the correct qualifications which I need to achieve my future job; on top of doing a 2nd placement in third year, to gain more experience.
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