How to design your coaching for more powerful learning outcomes
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Dan welcomes Dr Kimberly Berens, founder of Fit Learning  and CEO of Fit Learning Online and author of Blind Spots: Why Students Fail and the Science That Can Save Them. Fit Learning is a powerful system of instruction based in behavioural science and the Technology of Teaching, and it aims to transform the learning abilities of children, which it does in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia. To find out more about Fit Learning, go to: http://fitlearningonline.com/ In the podcast, they discuss: How Kimberly found watching her son's experience of being coached filled her with horrorHow there's too much talk and not enough practiceWhy measuring progress is vitalThe key to learning through reinforcementThe huge variability in the learning processSimple methods of counting to help check individual progress and what you need to do next when you know the resultsWhat you need to master and whyHow to differentiate across a larger groupHelping parents help their children to "work harder" without becoming too bossyTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly 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!
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