Project Coach: Youth Development and Academic Achievement through Sport

Autor/inn/en	Intrator, Sam M.; Siegel, Donald
Titel	Project Coach: Youth Development and Academic Achievement through Sport
Quelle	In: Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 79 (2008) 7, S.17-23 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0730-3084
Schlagwörter	Community Development; Elementary Education; Academic Achievement; Adolescents; Conflict Resolution; Social Development; Athletics; Athletic Coaches; Participation; After School Programs; Disadvantaged Youth; Intervention; Federal Legislation; Achievement Gap; Standardized Tests; Scores; Evaluation; Team Sports; Teamwork; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community; Development; Entwicklung; Elementarunterricht; Schulleistung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Soziale Entwicklung; Leichtathletik; Teilnahme; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Bundesrecht; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Evaluierung; Mannschaftssport; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Researchers and educators have long tried to find the connection between participation in sport-related activities and academic and social development among youths. This article traces the conceptual ideas that led to the design of an after-school sports program (Project Coach). This program promotes positive youth and community development through teaching disadvantaged minority adolescents to be sport coaches and to run youth-sports leagues for elementary-age children in their home neighborhoods. The article describes how youth development can be achieved by focusing on key life skills, such as communications, initiative taking, perseverance, conflict resolution, and other leadership capacities. These "soft skills"--or supercognitives--are essential for success in school and in the workplace, and coaching provides an opportunity for youths to acquire and employ these foundational supercognitives. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. 1900 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191. Tel: 800-213-7193; Fax: 703-476-9527; e-mail: info@aahperd.org; Web site: http://www.aahperd.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10