About this episode
Send us a text Jamie Taylor PhD is the former head of Academy at Leicester Tigers and now working with Grey Matters as a Senior Coach Developer and the English Institute of Sport as the coaching and curriculum lead. He is a coach, coach developer and researcher in coaching science with a particular focus on talent development. In this podcast, we follow up with Jamie to take an even deeper dive into teaching, learning and decision making. We discuss: Is coaching teaching? Can classroom research transfer to sports coaching? Which pedagogical principles can help coaches plan and deliver sessions Why a coach needs to be much more than an environmental designer The role of cognition in learning How coaches can use professional judgement and decision making to decide which principles and methods to use and when What factors does it depend on when we say "it depends" RESOURCES/REFERENCES Robert Bjork Desirable Difficulties: https://bit.ly/DesirableDifficulty Pam Richards Research on Shared Mental Models: https://bit.ly/NetballCaseStudy https://bit.ly/HolisticSMMFramework Implementing the Five-A Model of Technical Refinement: Key Roles of the Sport Psychologist: https://bit.ly/5AModel Professional Judgement and Decision Making in Sport Coaching: To Jump Or Not To Jump: https://bit.ly/PJDMPaper Visit Jamie at: https://twitter.com/jattaylor Jamie@greymattersuk.com To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK HERE Also, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!