1st4sport Principles of Coaching (QCF)

Prepare tomorrow’s sport coaches, today

The 1st4sport Principles of Coaching Sport Suite of qualifications provides your learners, aged 14 years and over, with the knowledge needed to develop their confidence and start them on the road to an engagement with coaching sport.
Utilising the new QCF common-knowledge units for coaching, learners gain the required generic knowledge at an appropriate level that all sports coaches need to plan, conduct and evaluate safe and effective coaching activities (Level 1), sessions (Level 2) and programmes (Level 3) in sport. This includes:

• fundamentals of coaching sport
• principles of planning, conducting and evaluating coaching
• supporting participant development
• principles of safe and equitable coaching practice.

The qualifications will also provide the foundation for all UK Coaching Certificate (UKCC) sport-specific coaching programmes and have been accepted as part of the Additional and Specialist Learning Catalogue for the Diploma in Sport and Active Leisure