REACH YOUR MAX CURRICULUM - Beyond Sport

REACH YOUR MAX CURRICULUM

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Foreword by Paul RogersI feel very privileged to be part of Oscar India, I have experienced first-hand the power football can have to make positive changes to people’s lives.

The games in this booklet, which have all been designed and practiced by some of the quite brilliant Oscar India young leaders are great examples of how we can use the football to educate our young people.

I am sure you will enjoy teaching and playing them and seeing the impact they will have.

Paul Rogers is a member of the Oscar India Advisory Board, he has played 338 games in English professional leagues, scoring 33 goals, including 52 appearances in the English premier league, scoring six times.

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“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so doea the attitude of the world change towards him…we need not wait to see what others do.

“Be the Change you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Maruti ChauhanShankar Chandra ChavanFardin Y ShaikhGovinda RathodSantosh PawarAnand Shankar ChavanDhanraj H RathodChirag ValmikiKumar Nagraj ChavanGaanesh RathodPankaj EkkaNishant GadageDinesh JadhavSeema RawatJamuna Hontal

Pradipta MahandiaSundari JaniSameer TurikPranab KubhagHema RaoSanjib Kumar BakhyaKrushna BakhyaKousalya KarangiaMeghnath TaniBabula KhosalaAkhil PaguiJoseph FernandesSheldon CoutinhoAnd compiled by Dan Lawson and Stuart Christie

This curriculum was devised by the following Oscar Advanced Young Leaders

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OSCAR India is a football for development organisation thats uses sport as a social tool to identify and tackle barriers that prevent children and youth from reaching their maximum potential. We pursue three main objectives: • To support children and youth

to stay in school.• To discover, develop and

nurture young talent. • To educate youth as responsible

and well-rounded citizens.

MissionOSCAR India is a social non-profit enterprise that supports grassroots organisations using sports as a tool for social change. Acting as an umbrella program, and based inside communities, OSCAR aims to create a network of role models among partner organisations to identify and tackle the barriers preventing children and youth from reaching their maximum potential.

VisionWe believe in a world in which sports empower youth to discover and reach their maximum potential.

250CHILDREN ATTENDED TUITION CLASSES, BASIC COMPUTER SKILLS AND LIFE SKILLS TRAINING

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YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE ATTENDED OSCAR YOUNG LEADERS PROGRAMME

AGE RANGE OF YOUNG PEOPLE PROVIDED WITH FOOTBALL COURSES

300CHILDREN DIRECTLY BENEFIT FROM THE OSCAR PROGRAMME IN MUMBA

1500 CHILDREN ACROSS INDIA REGULARLY ATTENDING OSCAR SESSIONS

8DIFFERENT FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES STARTED IN AMBEDKAR MAGAR COMMUNITY BECAUSE OF THE OSCAR PROGRAMME

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The OSCAR India project is led and developed by you, the young leaders, and it is this input that makes the programmes and work so successful. Not everyone has the skills to become and Oscar Young Leader it needs a young person to have a number of special qualities.

Organisation - All Oscar young leaders are well organised your sessions are well planned, you arrive to practice in plenty of time with all the equipment needed. All your sessions follow the right pattern with a warm up, stretches, fun games, technical work, games, cool down, stretches and debrief.

Social Messages - Oscar young leaders understand how football can be used help young people in their community Reach their Max. Using these Oscar social message games we help our players understand issues within the community and lifestyles that might hold them back from fulfilling their full potential, ultimately helping to change their behaviour.

Creativity - All Oscar young leaders are creative, you are comfortable in creating and delivering your own unique sessions. You can develop social message games to address specific problems in your community as well as your own football sessions. You also have the ability to change and rework sessions at a moments notice to deal with any unforeseen circumstances such as too many players attending or the need to include a player with disabilities.

Atttitude - You have the Oscar attitude and create this attitude in all your sessions. They are fun, and you praise the young people as much as possible looking for things they are doing well rather than wrong. Your aim is for all your players to leave with a smile on their face and feeling better about themselves

Role Model - All Oscar young leaders are role models within their community your younger players strive to be like you. You understand the importance of being a good role model, of behaving in the correct manner.

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The games detailed in the next few pages will prove an excellent tool for you to begin to discuss certain topics with your group. With have to be realistic and say that it is unlikely that by just playing one of our Reach Your Max games young people will automatically change their behaviour.

For example by playing the bad habits games with a group of 15 young people it would be silly to expect all of them to give up gambling straight after the session. People are more complex than that, and when we are trying to bring about behaviour change it is important that we understand the process people go through when changing behaviour and how we can encourage and help them through this.

It is always a good idea to ask yourselves the questions on the right/left about young people who would benefit from changing in your group.

Below is an image called the stages of change model its an easy way to understand how people go though a change in behaviour

CHANGING BEHAVIOUR

Do they know what they would need to do to make a successful and lasting change ?

Are they ready to change ?

what if anything is preventing them from changing ?

Barriers to change

What might trigger a return to their former behaviour?

Expect them to relapse and go back to their bad habits

1.PRECONTEMPLATION 2. CONTEMPLATION

3. PREPARATION

4. ACTION5. MAINTENANCE

6. RELAPSE

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We can have a look at each stage in more detail, using as an example a young person who is spending a lot of time and money gambling.

Stage one - Pre-contemplationThe young person will not consider their gambling to be a problem or they may be in denial of the issues it causes in their life.How can we help?• Explain the risks of the current behaviour• Encourage self analysis and introspection

Stage two - ContemplationThe young person will begin to experience mixed emotions about their gambling, they will be thinking about the negative effect of their behaviour.How can we help?• We can talk with the young person and

identify the barriers to change - asking questions like why may it be hard to stop?

• We can weigh up the pros and cons of a change in their behaviour - how would you benefit from stopping gambling? What would you miss ?

Stage three - PreparationIn the preparation phase people will start to experiment with small changes. They may still visit the gambling store but not spend as much money. They may also start to ask for help and talk about how they may be able to change.How can we help?• We could work with the young person to

help them write down their goals - I will only visit the gambling store once a week or I will return to home straight after work.

• We can help them write a plan of action.

STAGES IN DETAIL1.PRECONTEMPLATION

2. CONTEMPLATION

3. PREPARATION

When talking to your players try your hardest not to tell them What to do. they are more likely to listen if you if you use questions such as... What can you do to stop your gambling?rather than you should do this... then you Will be able to stop.help them to come up With the ansWers themselves.

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Stage Four actionIn the action phase the young person will have stop their gambling and they will be carrying out their behaviour change.How can we support them?• We can reward their successes this may

be in the way of praise, possibly in front of the group or by offering other things like the chance to play for the team in a match.

• We can also help to build a support network for them, get other members of the team to help them with their change.

Stage 5 Maintenance After taking action the young person must now maintain their behaviour change and avoid temptation to return to their old ways.How can we help?• We can continue to reward the success

and also talk with your player to develop coping strategies to deal with temptation. When they think of going to the gambling shop how can they distract their thoughts, could they visit one of their support group? Perhaps list their success in their mind.

Stage 6 - RelapseA relapse will happen to most people who have made a behavioural change, when it does they are likely to have feelings of disappointment, failure and frustration.How can we help?We can talk with our player to identify the triggers that lead to the relapse, and the barriers to maintaining the change and find solutions to overcome these obstacles. We can also use our chat to reaffirm their goals.

4. ACTION

5. MAINTENANCE

6. RELAPSE

things to avoid When talking to players

ordering, directing, commanding, Warning or threatening, advice, suggestions, providing solutions, moralising, preaching, telling client “should do”, disagreeing, judging, criticising, blaming, shaming, ridiculing, labeling, interpreting or analysing past history. in short, avoid finger Waving

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Questions that would be good to ask a player about behaviour change

Why would you want to make this change?

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On a scale of 0-10 - 0 being not important at all, and 10 most important - what number would you pick for yourself as to where you are with importance on this change?

Why are you at that number and not a zero?

What are the 3 main reasons you want to make this change?

What ideas do you have about making these changes?

Pick one idea you just described and on a scale 0-10 in terms of how ready you are to make this change, what number would you put yourself on?

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What would it take to get you from that number to one number higher?

QUESTIONSQUESTIONS

other questions you may ask “What are the good things about smoking? “What are the not so good things about smoking?“What’s the best and Worst thing about smoking? “What the best thing that Would happen if you stopped smoking ? “What’s the Worst thing that Would happen if you stopped smoking?“if you stopped smoking What Would your life look like a month (or a Week a year...) from today?

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How to use the games in your sessions

Where your social message fits into the session depends on the message. Environmental or Water can be used as the warm up. Deforestation and child marriage (for example) can be used in the technique part of your session and alcohol and gender equality can be used for the match at the end of the session.

We have marked each games as Warm Up, Technique or Match to help you. The most important thing to do when using social message games in your session is to leave enough time to discuss the games with your players and to relate the game back to their lives. And remember to use the language covered earlier in the curriculum!

USING THE GAMES

IntroductIon and greetIngWarm up - dodge Ball with players dribbling dynamic Stretching Fun game / technique session - deforestation game discussion about deforestation and gameMatch - give extra points for different tricks to encourage dribblingWarm downStatic Stretching

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Warm-upenvironmental 13Water 14

techniquechild marriage 15addiction 16deforestation 17sexual abuse 18

fitnessschool drop-out 19

matchgender-equality 20population control 21alcohol abuse 22

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GAMES LIST

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Warm-upenvironmental 13Water 14

techniquechild marriage 15addiction 16deforestation 17sexual abuse 18

fitnessschool drop-out 19

matchgender-equality 20population control 21alcohol abuse 22

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environmental

Start with two teams on team will have more players

One team the litterers must turn the cones upside down the other and smaller team must turn them the right way up

Play for a set number of minutes - when the game is up explain that upside down cones are garbage and the others are bins - count how much garbage there is. Is there more garbage than bins ?

Explain that the more people that care about reducing garbage the better the problem will be

Warm-up

Plastic bags and plastic waste are the biggest contributors to environmental pollution in India.

Add more people to the bin team and play again. What happens ?

Keep adding more until there is no garbage problem.

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Water

Warm-up

Split the players into two teams - one team is water and one is waste

Waste team starts with a ball either in hands or feet and must try to hit water team with the ball. If they are success-ful in doing this the water player who has been hit must sit out the game.

When the game is finished sit the players down and ask them - in the game we recklessly threw the ball and lost water supply - how do we recklessly waste water in our commu-nities?

Discuss the points made.

Play the game again, switch teams and add a new rule - when a water player is hit if they can tell you a way to save water they may re-enter the game and also be able to use their hands to block balls thrown at them.

When the game is finished again ask the question - Did we waste as much water second time round? What was the difference?

The World Bank estimates that 21% of communicable diseases in India are related to unsafe water - 128 million people in India lack safe water.

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technique

Players start by dribbling then shooting at goal.

After they achieve a goal set by the coach - for example 20 goals or the completion of a set time (e.g 10 mins) the game is changed.

Add a defender (blue) that will come and challenge the attacker once they leave the blue box

Play for a while - then ask the players What was the differ-ence? Pressure / Harder to score

Ask them about child marriage who might put pressure on them to get married ? If they did get married would it be harder for them to achieve / score goals ? Forty seven percent of 20-24

year olds in India are married or in union by the age of 18.

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addiction

Set up a pitch with small boxes - known as ‘addiction boxes’.

Split the players into two groups - ‘addiction’ and normal players. If you have a group of 12, have eight normal and four addiction.

Give the normal players a ball each, which they dribble around and try to keep away from the addiction players, who will try to kick their ball out of the pitch.

If they are successful in doing this they must then wait in an addiction box - they can leave the box only if a friend passes them their ball before going to collect the one kicked out.

Stop the game and ask the players what sort of addictions they know about.

Ask them how they make sure

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Addiction sentence required please. Appropriate photo will be sourced.

they don’t get addicted.

How do they get out of the box? Can we help our friends who may be addicted? And how did it feel in the box?

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deforestation

Ask the players to dribble as quickly as they can through the coned area trying to avoid hitting the cones with the ball

Each time a player hits a cone turn the cone upside down

When most or all of the cones are turned upside down then stop the game and explain to the players that the cones represent trees and each time we hit one we are chopping one down

Ask them what has happened to the forest

Talk about how we should take

technique

A sentence or two about deforestation would be helpful at this point. A sentence or two about

care of nature

Ask them to dribble again but this time take more care of the ball and try not to cut down as many trees

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seXual abuse

The yellow players are being abused if they manage to score a goal then they end the abuse

At first they must try to beat three defenders and the goalkeeper to achieve their goal

Play like this for a while talk to the players about how difficult it is to stop the abuse on your own

Introduce a new rule - now the attackers can pass the ball to other yellows on the outside once they do this they come into play - they can pass to as many yellows as they want

Was it easier to achieve their

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Over 50% of children in India reported having been sexually abused.

goal with help ? Who could the other players represent? (family, police, teachers, coaches) What could passing the ball represent? Talking to them, telling them about the abuse.

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school drop-out

fitness

A sentence or two about school drop-outs would be helpful at this point.

......whether some weeks are harder than others

...what benefits there are to staying in school

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Set up the fitness session as shown on the right.

Each player has one minute to complete a number of exercises before running 50m in 30 seconds to the other side of the box to complete some more exercises.

Let the players try to complete 10 different exercises and sprints.

Tell them they can drop out whenever they want.

At the end of the session ask all the players...

...what benefits those who stayed in would get.

...if it was easy.

...if staying in school and passing exams is easy

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gender-equality

Split your group of players into two teams.One team plays as normal. The other team has conditions to their play such as they only use their weaker foot, can only walk and not run, must score with a header, etc .Play for ten minutes then stop the game Ask the players - Was it fair? How did the team with conditions feel? Who might

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A few words about gender equality in India to go in this space.

feel like this in your community?Swap the teams around let everyone get a chance to feel like they are treated unfairly.Have another discussion about what we can do to make sure everyone is treated fairly?

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population control

Set up two piches, each 10m x 10m.On one pitch have two teams of eight or more players, on the other pitch have a four-a-side game.Play games for ten minutes and then swap players around to they get to experience both formats.After the games, ask the players how each game differed.Ask them......can we relate this to anything in our community?...is there overcrowding?...what problems does this cause?...how would life be better if there

match

A few words about population issues in India to go in this space.

wasn’t overcrowding?Ask the players what they can do to stop overcrowding - introduce the subject of family planning, and what it entails.

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match

Split the players into two teams

Mark out a large circle in the middle of the pitch, this is the Bar Area

Normal football rules apart from when a pass or a player enters the bar area, the passer or player is then trapped in the bar area until the game finishes.

At then end of the game ask the people in the bar how they felt ? Is this like real life ? Will drink-ing alcohol restrict what you can do in the game and life ?

Ask the players should we al-ways be stuck in the bar ? What or who could help us get out ?

Play the game again add a rule if a team scores they can release one of their players from the bar. Just like friends helping each other move away from alcohol

There are 14m dependant drinkers in India. The percent-age of the drin king population aged under 21 has risen from two to 14 in 15 years.

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THEGAMEThese next pages are for you to create your own sessions to address issues in your community.

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