Informal & non-formal learning in the Coach Development Programme for Ireland (CDPI)

Informal & non-formal learning in the Coach Development

Programme for Ireland (CDPI)

Overview

• Sports Update.

• Coaching Ireland Landscape.

• Informal & Non – Formal Learning

All Ireland Football Final 2012

Donegal – All Ireland Champions 2012

National Coaching & Training Centre (NCTC)• Established 1992.

• Limerick based.

• Irish Sports Council funded.

• Work with 60+ NGB’s.

Coaching Ireland

• Main Task: Improve the standards of Coaching across Irish Sport.

Coaching Ireland

• Coaching Services– Coach Education.– Tutor Training.– Syllabus Development .– Quality Assurance &

Certification.– Coaching Development

Programme for Ireland (CDPI).

ATLANTIC SPORTS MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING

Empowering Irish Sport

Long Term Athlete Development LTPAD

Agreement On The Technical Framework

All Island mutual recognition of Coaching Qualifications • Partnership between

ISC, SportNI, Coaching Ireland & Sport CoachUK.

• UKCC/CDPI generic mapping.

• Rowing L1 mapping in Ireland and UK.

• Templates developed• Announcement on

mutual recognition 24/4/11 in Belfast.

Alignment to NQF• Nov 2010 – FETAC

registered Provider status.

• Levels 1 to 6. • Jan 2011 – HETAC

application.• Level 6 to 10.• Coaching Ireland

Chairs the Sport Standards Group.

Informal & non-formal learning in the Coach Development Programme for Ireland (CDPI)

• Informal learning is catered for on coach and tutor education courses through the writing of outcomes which are broader than the content/tasks covered in any particular module & is assessed accordingly. On this basis, informal learning can contribute to a qualification which is/will be placed on the NQF

• Informal learning is assumed in the ‘off-course’ elements of courses and in the periods after and between them, but at present is not directly accounting for or contributing to a qualification on the NQF

Informal & non-formal learning in the Coach Development Programme for Ireland (CDPI)

• Non-formal learning has not been part of the CDPI in the past but a number of NGBs are experimenting with different formats for their coach education programmes (e.g. communities of practice). At present these are not being accredited or forming part of a qualification but it is hoped that they will do so in the near future.

• Informal & Non-formal learning IS taken into account when someone is applying to undertake a course (coach, tutor or tutor trainer) in terms of APL (Accredited Prior Learning), but at present this is the only occasion on which these forms of learning are recognised.

Informal & non-formal learning in the Coach Development Programme for Ireland (CDPI)

• Part of Coaching Ireland’s remit is to agree/work with/accredit coach education programmes and work with the Qualifications bodies. The Government, nor the Irish Institute of Sport nor the 2 Sports Councils (Irish Sports Council & Sport Northern Ireland) dictate where the coach education programmes fit into the NQF.

• Ireland/Coaching Ireland is working towards accrediting all forms of learning within the CDPI, but we are not there yet, indeed there is some way to go!

• A Contentious issue is who gets to decide what the outcomes should be and how were they decided ?

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