COURSES

  

Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Football
 
This course is divided into two parts – initial training and external assessment.  It is intended for people over sixteen years of age who are committed to coaching football to children and who have one of the following:
  
*   The FA Junior Team Manager's Award, or
* Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Football, or
* At least two years' coaching experience at school. club, football-in-the-community scheme setting, or
* Played the game at Senior club level.
 
The course will be conducted in English and students will be expected to deliver their practical coaching assessments in English.  The practical element is physically demanding and students should be reasonably fit.  Students are expected to attend all tutor contact sessions.
 
Prerequisites include Emergency Aid and Child Protection and Best Practice.
 
Students will learn how to coach in technical (unopposed), skill (opposed) and game related (4 v 4) situations.  This knowledge will be tested via two initial practical assessments. Further internal assessments will take the form of a ‘Laws of the Game’ online examination and the completion of several course tasks and coaching portfolio.
 
Students will be required to complete satisfactorily all internal assessment elements and a mock practical assessment before submitting themselves for external assessment. Students should note that the standard of coaching required to be successful at Level 2 is high and they will not be entered for external assessment unless their tutor considers that they are ready.  Practical and portfolio support sessions will be organised as part of the initial course of training.
 
Stand alone external assessment sessions will be organised at regular intervals throughout the year and students must provide proof of their mock assessment recommendation when applying for an external assessment.  If the assessment is unsuccessful the assessor will recommend a date by which a re-assessment should take place.
 
Technical Practice Definitions

This is an unopposed practice with the emphasis on the development of a game technique.   Challenges to the development of the technique may be gradually introduced and will be in the form of increased or decreased time, area, target or degree of difficulty in practice depending on the rate of improvement in the players’ performance.

 
Skill Practice Definitions
  This is an opposed practice with the emphasis on developing the bond of technique and decision-making. The practice contains objectives for all players that are derived from the technical theme being practiced. Appropriate areas, the number of players involved and imposed ‘conditions’ will vary around the skill theme for development.
 
Small-sided Game Definitions
A directional game-practice involving targets and utilising even numbers of players per team (Level 2 – 4 v 4). Additional players may be used as servers, targets or floaters.
 
Practical Theme Definitions

For independent assessment, Candidates will be given 35 minutes in which to deliver a coaching session that must be a progressed session to develop an aspect of the Level 2 Football Practical Syllabus. The session should take the players through a technical practice and a skills practice, culminating in a small-sided game that applies the aspect to a game situation.   
 
 
Course Breakdown

    PRACTICAL
Warm up/cool down
Basic techniques – passing, ball control, turning, dribbling, running with the ball, shooting, heading, goalkeeping
Principles of attack and defence in skill and small sided situations
   THEORY
Learning and coaching process (Roles, Skills and Qualities of the Football Coach)
Planning, preparing and evaluating coaching sessions 
Football fitness (Overuse Injuries)
Nutritional Needs of Football Players (Football Food)
Health and safety (Reporting Accidents)
Growing up youngsters in football
Online Laws of the game
Introduction to the Long term Player Development (LTPD) Model
Equitable practice and codes of conduct
   INTERNAL ASSESSMENT
Three initial practical assessments (Technique-Skill, Game Related, Theme Practice)
Record of planning, preparing, conducting and evaluating 12 hours coaching (4 Linked and progressive Coaching Sessions)
Completion of course tasks
Mock assessment
   EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT
Review of student portfolio
Independent practical assessment

Course cost: £295.00     
 

(includes FA resource pack)    
 
Please do not apply for any course if you are unable to attend any course module or date of the course.  By doing so your application will be automatically rejected
 
COURSES AVAILABLE   (2009)
 
 
FAC86    Feb 10 (7.00 pm - 10.00pm) COURSE FULLY BOOKED 
  Feb 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Feb 24, Mar 3, 10 (7.00 pm - 10.00 pm)
April 19 - Mock Day 1 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
April 26 - Mock Day 2 (log books in to Assessor) (9.00am to 5.00pm)
June 3, 4 - Final Assessments (9.00am-5.00pm)
 

Douglas Eyre Sports Centre, Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, E17 7HE
FAC88    Mar 4 (7.00pm to 10.00pm) COURSE FULLY BOOKED 
  Mar 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Mar 18, 25, Apr 1 (7.00pm to 10.00pm)  
May 9 – Mock Day 1 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
May 16 – Mock Day 2 (log books in to Assessor) (9.00am to 5.00pm)
July 1 & 2 - Final Assessments (9.00am-5.00pm)
 

Douglas Eyre Sports Centre, Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, E17 7HE
FAC89    May 7 (7.00pm to 10.00pm) COURSE FULLY BOOKED 
  May 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
May 26, June 2, 9 (7.00pm to 10.00pm) 
July 12 – Mock Day 1 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
July 19 – Mock Day 2 (log books in to Assessor) (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Sept 9 & 10 - Final Assessments (9.00am-5.00pm)
 

Douglas Eyre Sports Centre, Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, E17 7HE
FAC90    May 26 (7.00pm to 10.00pm) COURSE FULLY BOOKED
  June 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
June 9, 16, 23 (7.00pm to 10.00pm)
Aug 8 – Mock Day 1 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Aug 15 – Mock Day 2 (9.00am – 5.00pm)
Sept 23 & 24 – Final Assessment (9.00 – 5.00pm)
 

London Marathon Playing Field, Shooters Hill Road, Greenwich, SE18 4LT
FAC90a    Aug 12 (7.00pm to 10.00pm)  COURSE FULLY BOOKED
  Aug 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Aug 26, Sept 2, 9 (7.00pm to 10.00pm) 
Oct 24 - Mock Day 1 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Oct 31 - Mock Day 2 (log books in to Assessor) (9.00am to 4.30pm)
Nov 21 & 28 - Final Assessments (9.00am - 5.00pm)
 

Coombe Boys School, College Gardens, Blakes Lane, New Malden, KT3 6NU
FAC91    Aug 5 (7.00pm to 10.00pm)   COURSE FULLY BOOKED
  Aug 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Aug 19, 26, Sept 2 (7.00pm to 10.00pm) 
Sept 27 – Mock Day 1 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Oct 4 – Mock Day 2 (log books in to Assessor) (9.00am to 4.30pm)
November 17 & 18 – Final Assessments (9.00am-5.00pm)
 

Douglas Eyre Sports Centre, Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, E17 7HE
FAC92    Sept 8 (7.00pm to 10.00pm)   COURSE FULLY BOOKED
  Sept 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Sept 22, 29, Oct 7 (7.00pm to 10.00pm)
Oct 31 – Mock Day 1(9.00am to 5.00pm)
Nov 7 – Mock Day 2 (log books in to Assessor) (9.00am to 4.30pm)
Dec 15 & 16 – Final Assessments (9.00am-5.00pm)
 

London Marathon Playing Field, Shooters Hill Road, Greenwich, SE18 4LT
FAC93    Oct 19, 20, 21, 22, 23  (9.00am to 5.00pm)
  Oct T.B.A  (7.00pm to 10.00pm)
Mock Day 1  T.B.A  (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Mock Day 2  (log books in to Assessor) (9.00am to 4.30pm)
Final Assessments  T.B.A (9.00am to 5.00pm)
 

Douglas Eyre Sports Centre, Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, E17 7HE
FAC94 Nov 2, 3, 4, 5, 6  (9.00am to 5.00pm)
  Nov T.B.A  (7.00pm to 10.00pm)
Mock Day 1  T.B.A  (9.00am to 5.00pm)
Mock Day 2  (log books in to Assessor) (9.00am to 4.30pm)
Final Assessments  T.B.A (9.00am to 5.00pm)
 

Douglas Eyre Sports Centre, Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow, E17 7HE
 
For further information on the above courses contact Neil Fowkes at the London FA on 

0870 774 3010