My Genius Hour Question

This week we narrowed down our Genius Hour question, and while I was brainstorming what I wanted to research I thought about my passion web that we created last week. I was always involved with sports and activities and to this day it still plays a prominent role in my life. I love playing sports as well as coaching, although in the past five years I have dedicated myself to coaching soccer. I have coached development programs as well as competitive rep teams(primarily with females). When I was making this transition from player to coach, it made me reflect on my previous coaches and the ones who had an impact on my life both on and off the field. This distinction between the good and bad coaches was the basis of my inspiration of my Genius Hour question, because I wanted to know why the bad coaches were not effective and what characteristics of their coaching style contributed to that.

This past summer I coached in a program that had me working with youth house league teams, in which I would develop weekly coaching plans. I had primarily worked with female rep teams, and in this program I had two boy's teams and one girl's team. I realized quickly after the first week of practices that I had to adjust my coaching style between the girls team and the boys team. As well as, I had to tweak the weekly practice plan and tailor it to each team based on their strengths and weaknesses.

My question for Genius Hour is... What are the differences between coaching male and female athletes?

From Today's Lesson we worked with Powtoon, Twitter, and Google Slides. I really enjoyed all of these resources and would use these in different ways in the classroom. For group projects or collaboration I really like the Google drive and it's various programs that allow multiple people to work on a document from their own computers and homes. This is a great tool that can be used either in class or at home, and encourages collaboration between students and teachers. Pontoon is a great program that can be used in place of a Power Point presentation because it has a movie feature.