Sport Methodology - Youth Training Handball

Code:

TD24 - And

Acronym:

TD24 - And

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	2	Official Plan (2018 - )	1	-	9	61	243

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

a) Apply and develop basic knowledge acquired in the scope of Sports Training applied to Handball.

b) Acquire skills needed for acting as a coach in actual training and competition contexts, both in in sport for children and youth.

c) Develop skills of critical reflexion concerning emergent problems in real practice settings.

d) Develop skills for learning autonomously and deliberately using diversified knowledge sources.

Learning outcomes and competences

The discipline of sports Methodology - Handball takes place in a monitoring Scheme, where the main focus is the activity of coach within the context of children and youth.

In this sense, it is intended that students are faced with the problems raised by the professional practice in this field and, consequently, are induced to undertake the tasks required for its resolution, into a comprehensive perspective according to the demands of the sportive system.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Considering skills acquisition related to professional practice as the great purpose of this curricular unit, the focus on the analysis, discussion and reflection of the problems raised by the practice are the main content scrutinized. Thus, the contents are diversified and impossible to enumerate because they just arise from the problems emerged in practice and are always addressed in a prospective application.

Mandatory literature

Estriga Luísa; Ensino do andebol na escola. ISBN: 978-972-8687-61-8
Gréhaigne Jean-Francis; Teaching and learning team sports and games. ISBN: 0-415-94640-9
Tavares Fernando 340; Jogos desportivos coletivos. ISBN: 978-972-8687-60-1
Anton Garcia Juan Lorenzo; Balonmano. ISBN: 84-8019-097-3
Anton Garcia Juan L.; Balonmano. ISBN: 84-85945-64-6
Papic Marija; Learning creativity in sport. ISBN: 978-953-57229-2-2

Teaching methods and learning activities

Considering the objectives mentioned, which are embodied in skills for professional coaching function within the context of children and youth, the methodologies applied are much less expository and more interactive.

The intention to prepare students for future coaching profession also requires the use of training strategies that aim an increasing autonomy, where the use of questioning is important mainly to the confrontation of knowledge in strict sense (define, describe, distinguish, recognize and associate concepts), to its application (to exemplify, operate, prescribe), until the problems resolution (criticize, decide, formulate).

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Trabalho de campo	40,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	40,00
Estudo autónomo	60,00
Frequência das aulas	61,00
Trabalho de campo	22,00
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Total:	243,00

Eligibility for exams

Access to practical evaluation requires 75% of presences to classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

Final Classification
- (i) Presentation and discussion of topics during classes (40%) and (ii) a written work (50%), reflecting critically on selected themes of high performance sports training.
- Classroom participation (10%).