TEACHING INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED SAILORS


Core Drills & Games The core of your practice will consist of skill development games that focus on the goal of the day.


or games that reflect the goal of the day. If the skill is very complex, you might use fewer games to minimize confusion; or you might link several drills and games, each of which focuses on a separate part of the skill.


At the end of a drill or game most of the sailors should be able to demonstrate the skill you have targeted. If the drill or game is too easy, the sailors will be bored.


If it is too


difficult, frustration will set in if they cannot achieve a reasonable degree of success. Monitor and adjust your on-water practice plan. Engage your students by providing feedback on skill performance, though there will be times that continuous flow of a drill or game will require that you delay giving feedback until a more appropriate time.


Teaching and Coaching Fundamentals Online (TCFO), one of the most notable improvements gained from instruction is feedback. Feedback includes positive reinforcement,


skill correction, checks for understanding, rewards,


It is usually most effective to concentrate your efforts on 3 or 4 drills


and


encouragement. Feedback from the instructor comes in between the three brain processes, and occurs multiple times during one lesson. From the student’s perspective, feedback allows for the opportunity to ask questions, the potential for a check for understanding and feedback from the instructor, and the possibility of learning errors being corrected during the learning phase.


During this part of student practice, you might find that your planned drill or game is inappropriate for the conditions you encounter out on the water. If this occurs, you will have to go to “Plan B” (a plan that you have developed as an alternative). If you have to adjust the plan, how can you get the changes across to the students? It might be difficult, but it can be done with hand and sound, signals, loud hailer, white board, code words, etc. It is important to always have a back-up plan.


Give the sailors some time to figure out the skill by themselves and to try to work through the problems they encounter. A minimum of 10 minutes of uninterrupted practice gives you plenty of time to observe their skill execution and determine if you need to intervene with a correction.


E Feedback is information about how we are doing in our efforts to reach a goal or execute a skill. An instructor teaches a sailing lesson with a goal of building sailors’ skills to effectively sail in different wind conditions.


E Performance Correction is linked to a specific skill that is leading to a performance goal. Performance feedback is the action that needs to be corrected and how to correct it.


E Specific feedback provides a direct correction of skill paired with a “why”statement. Best used during one-on-one conversation.


E Positive Reinforcement is part of feedback cycle and should also be specific - Good job sitting out on the rail and holding the tiller extension properly!”


E Reflective Feedback describes relevant, observable behaviors and includes constructive compliments and constructive correction.


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