Tag: Teaching

Knowing vs Believing

Separating fact from opinion is one of the hardest challenges coaches face. It’s human nature for perspective to be clouded. And, notions of effective coaching are not immune to the myths of success (e.g. falling prey to it’s always been done that way and struggling to distinguish between because of and in spite of.) “Stay down in your stance… Don’t cross your feet when …

6 Essentials of Good Basketball Drills

What makes a basketball drill good? To be more precise, what differentiates effective from ineffective basketball drills? I’m continually wrestling with these types of questions. With all the drills that are being put out there nowadays, you must have a way to sift through the clutter. Once you do, you then have to be able …

Appropriate Coaching

I stumbled across this blog post on the USA Volleyball website by John Kessel, called Appropriate Coaching… “Appropriate coaching is an important part of being a good coach… I will go back a bit in time to when the term coach was used to move VIP’s, who could afford to ride [in a coach], rather …

Good vs. Great Teachers

The important thing is not what teachers know but what their students know, not what teacher can do but what their students can do. Good teachers speak the language of intellect – words – and communicate clearly so that students understand. They use hindsight to learn by their mistakes and improve. Excellent teachers speak the …

How You Too Can Change The World

Quirky… poignant… insightful… creative… inspiring… funny. Coming from a family full of educators, and an impostor myself, I enjoyed this presentation. If you have 25-mins to carve out of your day, Dave Eggers will not disappoint. As Eggers says, “[making a difference] should be fun. It needn’t be bureaucratically untenable. You can use the skills …