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32 | SPRING 2024 | www.ladiesgaelic.ie COACH FOCUS PARTICIPATION & ACTIVE LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION ELITE / HIGH PERFORMANCE ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE ADULT YOUTH T2 E1 T1 T4 F3 DEVELOPING POTENTIAL Talent T1 T4 F1 T3 T3 5 F1 Nursery Coach 4-6 year olds F2 Go Games Coach 7-12 year olds F3 Youth Coach 13-17 year olds Adult Coach 18 Years+ T1, T2 & T3 Youth Coach (2nd Level School/County) 13-19 year olds T4 3rd Level Coach Adult E1 Intercounty Coach Adult F2 THE CLUB F3 PARTICIPATION & ACTIVE LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION ADULT YOUTH T2 E1 T1 T4 F3 T1 T4 F1 F1 Nursery Coach 4-6 year olds F2 Go Games Coach 7-12 year olds F3 Youth Coach 13-17 year olds Adult Coach 18 Years+ T1, T2 & T3 Youth Coach (2nd Level School/County) 13-19 year olds T4 3rd Level Coach Adult E1 Intercounty Coach Adult F2 THE CLUB F3 NEW GAELIC GAMES COACH PATHWAY LAUNCHED COACH PATHWAY-LEARNING SPACE VIDEO Gaelic Games Coach Pathway Central to the new Gaelic Games Coach Pathway are coaches who play an important role on creating an effective coach development environment. The Gaelic Games Coach Pathway follows on from the successful launch of the Gaelic Games Player Pathway in 2021. The Coach Pathway has been created to mirror the Player Pathway, ensuring that coaches are provided with the knowledge, skill, and capacities to develop players within and across phases of the Gaelic Games Player Pathway – "just for me" and "just in time." The Pathway is also heavily informed by the cross-Association coach education study conducted in 2020 with over 10,500 coach respondents. People identified a lack of time and other commitments as barriers to engaging in learning. They said they wanted shorter, more bite-sized learning opportunities. Consequently, a key feature of the new approach is to provide flexible and modular courses. The Coach Pathway is grounded in three core elements aligned to the Gaelic Games Player Pathway: The Player, The Game and The Environment. Coach Pathway Explained The Coach Pathway will exhibit a Coach 'Learning Space' that aims to reflect the variety of coaching needs, and the breadth of learning opportunities that should be provided for coaches. This 'Learning Space' is accessible to all following the completion of the Introduction to Gaelic Games course, with the exception of core modules and specialist modules which have a pre-requisite of participants required to complete Award/Level 1 formal courses. The Learning Management System (TOBAR), linked to Foireann, will power the delivery of the Coach Pathway. All three Associations are committed to providing coaches with the right supports at the right time, which will enable them to individually empower themselves to engage with the many challenges they will face along their Coach Pathway journey.