1. 30th January 2013
The Coach10 Model Aligning Coaching Qualifications to the European Qualifications Framework
Mr Pat Daly – Director of Games Development & Research
Gaelic Athletic Association, Ireland.

2. The GAA – An Introduction

3. GAA Clubs - Ireland 20,120 Teams 4 Provinces 32 Counties
GAA Activity in 93% of Primary Schools
GAA Activity in 64% of Post Primary Schools

4. GAA International Canada: 15 Clubs Britain: 86 Clubs Europe: 47 Clubs
New York Board: 57 Clubs
Asian Gulf Board: 28 Clubs
North American Board: 108 Clubs
Australasian Board: 50 Clubs
Buenos Aires: 1 Club

5. GAA Player Pathway Play to Stay with the GAA
Child
Go Games
Youth
Development Games
Adult
Championship Games
play to learn
learn to compete
compete to win

6. GAA Coaching Pathway The GAA has a clear Coaching Pathway: Enlightened
Emerging
Established
Enlightened

7. GAA Volunteer Coaches
The total economic value of Sports volunteering in Europe can be estimated at € 28.4 billion
(Funding of Grassroots Sport in the EU – Executive Summary, 2012: 7).
In Ireland the GAA is the dominant organisation for Sports Volunteering accounting for 42% of Sports Volunteers in Ireland
The total economic value of GAA volunteering can be estimated at approximately €112,140,000 per annum
Volunteer Coaches: Nationally, an approximate 12,800 weekly underage training sessions are held, equating to 16,976 hours of GAA training per week - an input comparable to that of employing 453 additional full-time coaches
There is a need to promote and facilitate Applied Lifelong Learning (ALL)

8. Applied Lifelong Learning (ALL)
Formal
Informal
Non-Formal
Face To V I R T U A L
Process by which the assimilation of knowledge, skill and competence in a specific area contributes to the development of overall acumen on the basis that the core conceptual constructs have universal application
Course/
Workshop
Community of Practice
Mentoring

9. The Coaching Enigma
“Despite nearly 35 years of research and discussion, there still remains a lack of precision in terminology and approach, and a singular failure to reflect effectiveness and expertise literature to any conceptual understanding of the coaching process”
Source: “An Integrative Definition of Coaching Effectiveness and Expertise”
– International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching (Vol. 4; Iss. 3, 2009)
Q. If there is a lack of certainty surrounding terminology and process, how can there be certainty regarding knowledge, skill and competency in relation to the validation of coaching qualifications?
A. The Coach10 Model
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” - Einstein

10. The Coach10 Model
Terminology
Process
What?
How?
Why?
TPP
MVA

11. The Coach10 Model
Terminology
Process
What?
How?
Why?
TPP
MVA
Coach10

12. TOTAL PLAYING PERFORMANCE
What?
BUILD
TOTAL PLAYING PERFORMANCE
(TPP)

13. TPP Where Players strive to achieve their full individual and collective potential

14. MOTIVATION & VOCATIONAL
hOW?
ON THE BASIS OF
MOTIVATION & VOCATIONAL
ATTRIBUTES
(MVA)

15. MOTIVATION
Principled
Passionate
Persistent
Persuasive
Personable

16. VOCATIONAL
Organising
Golden Rule
Purposeful
Activities
Games-Based

17. GAMES BASED ACTIVITIES
INTER-
MEDIATE
DRILLS
ADVANCED
DRILLS
SET PLAYS
CONDITIONED
GAME
FULL SIDED
GAME
GAMES BASED ACTIVITIES
BACKS & FORWARDS
GAME
SMALL SIDED
GAME
PRACTICE
PLAYS
BASIC
DRILLS
FUN/FITNESS ROUTINES
Varied training pursuits - involving the use of the ball in match-type scenarios - which are undertaken by players in order to develop the playing skills of Hurling and Gaelic Football.

18. ATTRIBUTES Motivation Attributes (Outcome) Vocational Passionate
Principled
Golden Rule
Organising
Persuasive
Activities
Purposeful
Persistent
Personable
Games-based
Motivation
Attributes
(Outcome)
Vocational

19. ATTRIBUTES Build Trust Self Esteem Energising Empowering Engagement
Excellence
Team Spirit
Family Feel
Enthusiasm
High
Morale

20. MVA The Motivation & Vocational Attributes (MVA) that inspire players to achieve Total Playing Performance (TPP)

21. WHY? Motivation & Vocational Attributes Because the Coach Because the
is building…
Because the
Coach has the…
Competence
Confidence
Commitment
Connection
Conviction
Management
Leadership
Capability
Experience
Reflection
Because the Coach is operating on the basis of…
Motivation & Vocational Attributes

22. Motivation & Vocational Attributes
Passionate
Principled
Persistent
Personable
Persuasive
Golden Rule
Organising
Purposeful
Games-based
Activities
Empowering
Energising
Engagement
Enthusiasm
Excellence
Build Trust
Self Esteem
Family Feel
High Morale
Team Spirit

23. Applied Lifelong Learning (ALL) – Coach10
Formal
Informal
Non-Formal
Face To V I R T U A L
Process by which the assimilation of coaching knowledge, skill and competence contributes to the development of overall acumen on the basis that the core conceptual constructs – as espoused in the Coach10 Model – have universal application
Course/
Workshop
Community of Practice
Mentoring

24. In 2013… “Commence with the end in mind.”
“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” Stephen Covey
The constructs of Motivation & Vocational Attributes will backbone a standards framework for validating and accrediting Coaching Qualifications and will also provide the title for the foremost Coaching Qualification at grassroots level i.e. the MVA Qualification.

25. In 2022…
That all coaches will aspire to attain the MVA Qualification i.e. the coaching qualification, which validates that a coach can combine Motivation and Vocational inputs to create a series of Attributes, which inspire players to achieve their full individual and collective potential and, by so doing, to experience a sense of Total Playing Performance (TPP).

26. Aligning Coach10 with the EQF
In the process of developing Courses/Workshops, Communities of Practice, Mentoring Programmes as part of the Coach10 Model – in conjunction with pilot partners;
Currently exploring the best accreditation models for the MVA Qualification but are planning to develop a tiered qualification structure on the EQF.

27. Aligning Coach10 with the EQF
The tiered qualification structure will provide coaches with the opportunity to apply their formal learning, and their informal and non-formal prior experiential learning in order to achieve as many modules as possible (through an RPL/APEL process) with continuous topping-up opportunities.

28. Challenge & Opportunity
It is not possible to develop a qualification based upon knowledge, know-how, skill and competency without a set of conceptual constructs that promote Applied Lifelong Learning (ALL).
Coach10 provides the conceptual constructs around which a qualification aligned to the Irish NQF and EQF can be developed.

29. We ALL engage in ALL for the benefit of ALL
Final Reflection
We ALL engage in ALL for the benefit of ALL