ABSTRACT

Coach developers often design and deliver professional development (PD) courses for coaches that are research-based, personally tailored, and effectively taught in asynchronous online platforms. However, not all of these endeavours are successful in developing coaches. This is a confessional tale of what went wrong and why in an online PD course for adult fitness coaches, from our perspectives as the coach developers. What originally began as an action research project of a PD course on psychosocial aspects of coaching adult fitness athletes, our tale is crafted in five scenes with data from emails, reflexive diary entries, course content and analytics, and post-course interviews. We specifically examine (a) the startling consequences of content knowledge, (b) our misaligned expectations as trained and qualified CDs, (c) student-centred active learning strategies backfiring, (d) differing subjective experiences of the same online classroom, and (e) the unexplained lack of learner motivation.

摘要

教练开发人员通常为教练设计和提供专业发展 (PD) 课程，这些课程以研究为基础、个性化定制并在异步在线平台上有效教授。然而，并非所有这些努力都能成功培养教练。从我们作为教练开发人员的角度来看，这是一个关于成人健身教练在线 PD 课程中出了什么问题以及原因的忏悔故事。我们的故事最初是作为关于指导成人健身运动员的心理社会方面的 PD 课程的行动研究项目而开始的，它分为五个场景，其中包含来自电子邮件、反思性日记条目、课程内容和分析以及课后访谈的数据。我们专门检查 (a) 内容知识的惊人后果，(b) 我们对训练有素的合格 CD 的期望不一致，