Curiousity Catalysts

Coaches: warm players up mentally before or after you help them do a physical warm-up. How? Ask them questions... You can make these questions super simple (what - see picture below) You can make these questions a little more complicated (how - see picture below) Then what? Ask players to picture their answers for 30 seconds By doing so you're helping them run an inner movie that helps them feel a greater sense of readiness for training Next, get them sharing their answers with team mates for 30 seconds. This drives communication and teamwork

Your players WILL forget…in fact they’ll start forgetting straight away. So you need to help them to… Retrieve…Rehearse…Remember Retrieve…Rehearse…Remember Let’s explore this in more detail 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 You’re a coach who’s just delivered a new part of your game model to your team. Your players haven’t seen this part of your game model before…it’s new to them…they may have seen parts of what you’ve introduced to them in a different form…but when incorporated into your game model these are new actions and tasks! And so you know you need to help your players remember the precise detail of your instruction…the granular detail related to actions and tasks that are so often forgotten. So what do you do? Here’s a couple of idea’s: During the water break after the period of instruction you can check their understanding. How? You can ask them questions about what they’ve just experienced. These questions can be basic questions…maintenance questions: Example: “What have you taken from my instruction?" Or they can be advanced questions…elaborate questions: Example: "How would you use this in our game at the weekend?" Of course, advanced questions are quite useful for learning because they contain greater 'meaning'…but either way…utilising a water break straight after a period of instruction gives players the opportunity to… Retrieve…Rehearse…Remember This process is called memory consolidation and helps to solidify learning and prevent forgetting. Retrieve…Rehearse…Remember What can you do next? Well, at some point later in your session you can return to the new information (the new part of your game model) and test for understanding. This time, rather than asking questions, you can create an activity that tests their ability to execute the newly taught actions and tasks in a game-like activity. In this way they have to ‘Retrieve…Rehearse…Remember’ in-context. This is called a ‘Desirable Difficulty’ (see the work of Robert Bjork) with the specific difficulties being that learning is: 1. Spaced out (your players have to work hard to remember the new actions and tasks because some time has elapsed since you instructed them). 2. Taking place in a varied and random playing environment (its game-like so they have to work even harder mentally to cope with the challenges the playing environment delivers as they execute the new actions and tasks) Retrieve…Rehearse…Remember Memory consolidation immediately after instruction and then in-context! (The Forgetting Curve 👇🏻 was developed by Ebbinghaus in 1880 and is a useful guide in terms of how human beings tend to forget what they’ve be taught)