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SPHE351 - Coaching Basketball Technical and Tactical Skills
Course Details
Course Code: SPHE351 Course ID: 4021 Credit Hours: 3 Level: Undergraduate
This course will help you learn how to teach the skills and strategies, and techniques and tactics of basketball. You’ll learn about approaches to coaching, including the games approach (an alternative to drills-based coaching), you’ll develop a season plan and a series of practice plans; and you’ll improve your ability to coach during games. This course is suitable for high school coaches and for serious club coaches, college coaches, and advanced coaches at the youth level.
Course Schedule
| Registration Dates | Course Dates | Session | Weeks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/29/19 - 01/03/20 | 01/06/20 - 03/01/20 | Winter 2020 Session B | 8 Week session |
| 10/28/19 - 04/03/20 | 04/06/20 - 05/31/20 | Spring 2020 Session B | 8 Week session |
Current Syllabi
At the completion of this course, the student will have satisfied the following Learning Objectives (L.O.):
- Explain the relationship and difference between technical and tactical skills and describe the traditional and describe the traditional and games approaches to basketball practice.
- Evaluate technical and tactical basketball skills in your players and make use of your evaluation results.
- Evaluate, critique, and correct essential technical skills in basketball.
- Evaluate, critique, and correct essential tactical skills in basketball.
- Prepare effective season plans and individual practice plans.
- Demonstrate proper game day preparation.
| Name | Grade % |
|---|---|
| Introduction Forum | 3.00 % |
| Introduction Forum | 3.00 % |
| Forums | 27.00 % |
| Forum 1 | 3.38 % |
| Forum 2 | 3.38 % |
| Forum 3 | 3.38 % |
| Forum 4 | 3.38 % |
| Forum 5 | 3.38 % |
| Forum 6 | 3.38 % |
| Forum 7 | 3.38 % |
| Forum 8 | 3.38 % |
| Assignments | 40.00 % |
| (Wk #1) Assignment: Using Games Approach | 10.00 % |
| (Wk #2) Assignment: Offensive Technical Skill Development | 10.00 % |
| (Wk #4) Assignment: Game Strategies: The Game Within The Game! | 10.00 % |
| (Wk #6) Assignment: Practice and Season Plans | 10.00 % |
| Final Project | 30.00 % |
| (Wk #8) Assignment: Final Project-Scouting Report | 30.00 % |
- The VitalSource e-book is provided via the APUS Bookstore.
- Please visit https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com for more information.
- The keycode is packaged with the hard copy book. If you select the VitalSource e-book, you will receive an email from the APUS Bookstore with the keycode.
Textbook in APA format:
McGee, K. (2007). Coaching Basketball Technical and Tactical Skills. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics
Required Readings:
See Course Outline
Additional Resources:
There may be other materials, including websites outside the classroom, assigned by the Instructor during the course.
Websites:
In addition to the required course texts the following public domain websites are useful. Please abide by the APUS academic honesty policy when using Internet sources as well. Note website addresses are subject to change.
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Site Name |
Website URL/Address |
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The OWL at Purdue |
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APA Style Homepage |
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North American Society for Sport Management |
| Book Title: | Coaching Basketball Technical and Tactical Skills - the VitalSource e-book & ASEP code is provided inside the classroom |
| ISBN: | 9780736074322 |
| Publication Info: | VS-Human Kinetics |
| Author: | ASEP / McGee, Kathy |
| Unit Cost: | $58.56 |
| Electronic ISBN: | 9781450468763 |
| Electronic Unit Cost: | $25.00 |
Previous Syllabi
Not current for future courses.