NZQA registered unit standard
25805 version 3
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Title
Demonstrate and apply knowledge of individual and group
characteristics and needs for coaching activities in recreation
Level
3
Purpose
Credits
4
This unit standard is designed for people who coach, train, or
instruct participants in recreation.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify key
characteristics and general needs of participants from a
recreation coaching community; describe individual and group
characteristics and needs of participants from a coaching
community; apply knowledge of individual and group
characteristics and needs to a coaching session; and
implement and review the activities within the coaching
session.
Classification
Recreation and Sport > Recreation and Sport - Coaching and
Instruction
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
All activities must comply with the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992.
2
SPARC has developed learning support materials that may be useful to national
sport organisations and others in designing coach development programmes related
to the Coach Development Framework learning outcomes. These materials are not
intended to be used directly for assessment against unit standards. Links to these
learning support materials are listed in relation to Coach Development Framework
learning areas in a table beneath the heading ‘Coach Development Modules –
Learning Resources and Materials’ at http://www.sparc.org.nz/en-nz/communitiesand-clubs/Coaching/Coach-Development--Education/Framework-programmematerials/Coach-Development-Modules---Learning-Resources-and-Materials/.
3
Definitions
Coaching, in the context of this unit standard, includes coaching, training, or
instructing individuals or groups to develop physical, mental, emotional and social
skills in recreation, for example, gymnastics, cycling, swimming, or horse riding.
Coaching community refers to people who coach, teach, or instruct individuals or
groups primarily, but not exclusively, recognised in terms of age and/or development
stage by SPARC in the Coach Development Framework and/or by a national
recreation organisation.
Cognitive characteristics refer to how participants think, decide, and learn. These
characteristics include perception, imagination, judgement, memory, and language.
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Emotional characteristics refer to mood and sensitivities of participants. Two
dimensions are pleasure/displeasure (characteristics) and activation (response to the
emotion), eg embarrassment, anxiety, self-worth.
Group refers to a group of participants being coached, whether or not they perform
as a team, a squad, or independently.
Physical characteristics refer to the normal growth and changes that occur in a
person’s body and the genetic, nutritional, and health factors that affect their
development.
Recreation is an activity through which leisure may be experienced and enjoyed.
Recreation involves freely chosen activities engaged in for wellbeing. Recreation
activities include: sport, fitness and health, arts, crafts, outdoor pursuits, hobbies,
continuing education, ngā mahi a te rēhia, and activities with a service orientation.
Participation in recreation has individual, community, and social benefits.
Social characteristics refer to the social influences that guide participants, eg
interactions with others in the group, cultural factors, family influences, community,
and attitudes.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Identify key characteristics and general needs of participants from a recreation coaching
community.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Identification of characteristics includes physical, emotional, social, and
cognitive characteristics.
1.2
Identification of general needs is consistent with participants’ physical,
emotional, social, and cognitive stages of development.
Outcome 2
Describe individual and group characteristics and needs of participants from a coaching
community.
Range
coaching community selected for outcome 1.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Description of individual characteristics includes physical, emotional, social, and
cognitive characteristics.
2.2
Description of individual needs is consistent with the participant’s physical,
emotional, social, and cognitive characteristics.
2.3
Description of group characteristics and needs includes comparison to
individuals from the same coaching community.
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Outcome 3
Apply knowledge of individual and group characteristics and needs to a coaching session.
Range
evidence of any three coaching session activities – warm up, team culture
activity, skill development, small games, debrief.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Activities for a coaching session meet identified participants’ characteristics and
needs within the group.
Outcome 4
Implement and review the activities within the coaching session.
Evidence requirements
4.1
The activities in the coaching session are implemented, and modified where
required in accordance with participants needs.
4.2
The activities are reviewed to identify how well they met the participants’ needs.
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
16 April 2010
31 December 2012
Review
2
20 August 2010
31 December 2012
Rollover and
Revision
3
20 May 2011
N/A
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
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Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMRs). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact Skills Active Aotearoa Limited info@skillsactive.org.nz if you wish to
suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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