Overview
The 1st4sport Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Orienteering (QCF)is awarded by 1st4sport Qualifications and has been developed in partnership with British Orienteering.
The 1st4sport Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Orienteering (QCF) is accredited at Level 2 on the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF). For further information on the regulated status of the 1st4sport Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Orienteering (QCF), please log on to The Register of Regulated Qualifications website.
Criteria
The 1st4sport Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Orienteering (QCF) is designed for adults (over 17 years of age) who hold the 1st4sport Level 1 Certificate in Coaching Orienteering (QCF) or equivalent, can demonstrate an ability to perform the skills and techniques of TD 5 (Level 5) of the British Orienteering Step System and have an interest in coaching the sport.
Students in further or higher education studying sports-related qualifications might also wish to pursue this vocational qualification to support their interest in the sport, as a rung on the coaching ladder or as a component of an outdoor education programme.
Why Study?
- To gain the skills to introduce people to the sport in a safe and ethical manner.
- Orienteering is recognised both as a competitive sport and an excellent vehicle for the delivery of a variety of key skills to young people.
- It is widely recognised as a mechanism to introduce the challenge of the outdoors.
What can I use it for?
- To develop your ability to coach the skills and techniques of the sport of orienteering to adults and children (up to Step 3 on the BOF Step System and in BOF Grade A and B areas).
- As part of the development of a credible CV for employment in the sport, recreation and allied occupations industry.
Outline
Your learning programme will develop your understanding of:
- the role of a coach
- the coaching process
- participants’ learning styles
- behaviour management
- how to reflect on a coaching session
- the principles of planning coaching sessions
- the principles of skill development through coaching sessions
- how the stages of participants’ development impact on your coaching
- the principles of evaluation in coaching
- basic nutrition and hydration principles for sports performance
- physical conditioning for sport
- principles of mental preparation in sport
- how to support participant awareness of drugs in sport
- how to ensure participants’ safety during sport-specific coaching sessions
- how to ensure equitable coaching of sport-specific activities
- reviewing participants’ needs for a series of orienteering coaching sessions
- producing a series of orienteering coaching session plans
- planning the evaluation of a series of orienteering coaching sessions
- preparing resources for orienteering coaching sessions
- assessing and minimising risks before the orienteering session
- establishing and maintaining working relationships
- safeguarding and protecting children and vulnerable adults
- preparing participants for orienteering coaching sessions
- delivering orienteering coaching sessions
- developing participants’ performance
- concluding orienteering coaching sessions
- evaluating participant performance
- evaluating orienteering coaching sessions
- evaluating and developing your orienteering coaching practice.
How will my learning programme be structured?
Learning programmes are usually designed by the recognised centre that delivers the qualification. They may, therefore, vary in length and format. Depending on your needs, delivery centres can offer intensive courses or a series of learning events over a period of days or weekends. Whatever the timescale, all learning programmes should include the following phases:
- an induction to the qualification and your programme of learning and assessment
- a learning programme that will be divided into two parts: the main course of training, after which you will be required to practise your coaching, and the gathering of evidence prior to a final assessment
- a programme of assessment spread across the course, culminating in a final assessment of you delivering a coaching session observed by an appropriately qualified assessor.
At the end of the programme you will be provided with formal feedback on your performance and an action plan for your further development.
Assessment
The 1st4sport Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Orienteering (QCF)assessment will require you to:
- have an appropriate understanding of the Level 2 knowledge units and the specific technical knowledge underpinning the coaching of orienteering, which will be assessed via performance, simulation, tasks and assignments
- produce a linked session planner for a series of six orienteering coaching sessions. The series of sessions must be drawn from the Level 2 Orienteering Technical Syllabus and demonstrate a distinct progression appropriate to the needs of the participants
- produce individual session plans for each of the orienteering coaching sessions
- produce a written risk assessment for each coaching venue used during the coaching of the above sessions
- produce an evaluation schedule for the above sessions that identifies the evaluation methods that will be used and when feedback will be sought and from whom
- produce a written evaluation of each of the above sessions
- produce a summary log outlining the delivery of the above sessions. Sessions should be at least 60 minutes in length. Delivery of these sessions should be witnessed by an appropriate person
- be observed delivering two orienteering coaching sessions by an appropriately qualified assessor. This session may be simulated and delivered on the course of training. An individual session plan, risk assessment and evaluation should be produced for the session
- produce a written coach assessment and personal development action plan.
Fees
Recognised centres offering this qualification determine their own fees and they will vary from centre to centre. The fees charged should entitle you to a programme of learning and assessment, registration and certification for the qualification, a 1st4sport Qualifications Learner Pack and appropriate learning resource. For further information on the costs of courses, please contact a recognised centre.
Next Steps
The qualification is delivered by 1st4sport Qualifications’ recognised centres, not all of whom offer open courses to members of the public. Your first port of call to access a course should be to contact the governing body of sport.
For information on where to access a learning programme for the 1st4sport Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Orienteering (QCF), or for more information on the sport of orienteering, please contact:
British Orienteering
8a Stancliffe House
Whitworth Road
Darley Dale
Matlock
Derbyshire DE4 2HJ
Tel: 01629-734 042
Email: info@britishorienteering.org.uk
Website: www.britishorienteering.org.uk
or contact 1st4sport Qualifications via email at enquiries@1st4sportqualifications.com or by calling 0113-290 7610.
