Sport Pedagogy - Youth

Code:

TD18

Acronym:

TD18

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Sports Sciences

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	2nd Cycle in Sport Training - High Performance Training e Youth Training

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
2CTD	20	Official Plan (2018 - )	1	-	5	34	135

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

1. To provide students with skills to fit, educationally and scientifically, the education, training and preparation of practitioners in youth training and their competitive frameworks;

2. To specify and qualify the pedagogical role of coaches and other educational subjects in the youth training;

3. To provide students with knowledge and skills in designing, implementing and assessing sport developmental projects in institutions specifically oriented to the long-term athlete development;

4. To foster students with the ability to understand and solve problems in new situations or in wide multidisciplinary contexts for the exercise of professional activity in youth training.

Learning outcomes and competences

The program aims students to learn pedagogical axioms that guide sports, particularly in what youth training is concerned. The contents to be learnt are related to current issues, and others revisited, in Sport Pedagogy with a focus on the emerging problems in today's society in order to provide coaches with conceptual skills that help them to understand and reflect about the current problems of practice and the information derived from this research field.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. The educational role of sport in youth training;

2. Attributes and roles of the coach in youth training;

3. Teaching models in sport: from the behaviorist to constructivist approaches. Direct instruction Model/ Sport Education Model/Teaching Games for Understanding;

4. The long-term athlete development;

5. Equity issues in youth training.
5.1. Equality as a structuring principle of pedagogical practice 5.2.
5.2 Differentiation in pedagogical practice

6. The Coach as an Educator and Educational Mediator;

6.1. The educational value of sport;
6.2. Sport education as a pedagogical act;
6.3. The coach's values matrix as structuring of their practices;
6.4. The pedagogical perspective in mediating relationships in the training context.

Mandatory literature

Mesquita Isabel 070; Investigação na formação de treinadores. ISBN: 978-972-8687-70-0
Metzler Michael W.; Instructional models for physical education. ISBN: 0-205-26418-2
Rosado António 340; Pedagogia do desporto. ISBN: 978-972-735-163-3
Coutinho, P., Mesquita, I., & Fonseca, A. ; Talent development in sport: A critical review of pathways to expert performance, International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching., 11(2), pp. 279-293, 2016

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Expository method and thematic discussions with the oral presentation of practical work done by students.

- Questioning, argumentation, and debate.

- Active and collaborative learning methods, such as synchronous and asynchronous thematic discussions, case studies, debates, and think-par-share.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Teste	50,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Frequência das aulas	20,00
Estudo autónomo	30,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

- Presence of at least 75% of the classes taught.

-  theoretical component 50% and practical component 50%.
For final approval in the curricular unit, the student must obtain a minimum final classification of 10 points.

Students must complete the practical component of the course, so attendance at 75% of the lectures and the realization of the tasks/work in the classroom or online on the moodle platform are the compulsory criteria.

Calculation formula of final grade

The formula of evaluation: theoretical component 50% and practical component 50%.
For final approval in the curricular unit, the student must obtain a minimum final classification of 10 points.