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Post by kylem56 on Jul 9, 2010 17:33:20 GMT -6
I was reading a discussion in another thread and it got me thinking.. does anyone out there have a "program" within their football program that is designed to teach life skills?
Im not looking to start a debate on whether or not you should but I know alot of NCAA and even NFL teams will do this once a week where they have someone speak on money management, how to write a resume, alcohol & drugs, nutrition etc.
The idea I got going in my head would be something like once a week beginning during 2 a days where we spend a half hour talking abouteach these various topics. Maybe its unrealistic but its just an idea at this point. Does anyone else do something like this?
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Post by champ93 on Jul 9, 2010 18:50:20 GMT -6
We do a character education program. We used Coaching to Change Lives for several years, now that we have the hang of it, we create our own lessons.
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Post by kylem56 on Jul 9, 2010 20:10:20 GMT -6
champ93
I have heard of the Coachingto Change Lives program (by Dennis Parker I believe?). Do you feel it has benefited your kids? I would like to create something that does include elements of character because I feel that is important but I want it to also provide our guys with tools & advice that they can use after football. Here is a rough draft curriculum I have been working on:
Leadership (pre season week 1)
Alcohol Awareness (pre-season week 2)
Nutrition (pre-season week 3)
Academics (season week 1/ first week of school)
Money (season week 2)
Mental Health (season week 3)
Drug Awareness (season week 4)
Social Responsibility (season week 5)
Social Skills (season week 6)
Fatigue / Burnout (season week 7)
Career Planning Part 1 (season week 8)
Career Planning Part 2 (season week 9)
Career Planning Part 3 (season week 10)
I have a powerpoint I am working on that gets a little more in depth on each session. After I decide on a curriculum then I will start putting together the presentations. If anyone has any suggestions on where I could gather some resources pelase let me know. Also if you have any suggestions or critcisms feel free to tell me.
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Post by huthuthut on Jul 9, 2010 22:51:24 GMT -6
Read "The Traveler's Gift" by Andy Andrews. 7 Principles that you can use for 7 weeks (or more). Lots of good material for character ed. Have also used Parker's book.
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Post by airraider on Jul 10, 2010 8:42:21 GMT -6
I was reading a discussion in another thread and it got me thinking.. does anyone out there have a "program" within their football program that is designed to teach life skills? Im not looking to start a debate on whether or not you should but I know alot of NCAA and even NFL teams will do this once a week where they have someone speak on money management, how to write a resume, alcohol & drugs, nutrition etc. The idea I got going in my head would be something like once a week beginning during 2 a days where we spend a half hour talking abouteach these various topics. Maybe its unrealistic but its just an idea at this point. Does anyone else do something like this? Year before last I enrolled our team in the "Play It Smart" program. Its not for everyone, and is geared towards schools with a large population of low income children. It provided a stipend to hire a coordinator to come in and work on academics as well as life skills with our players. They also provided tutoring 30 minutes before school. In order for the person to get paid they were supposed to work a total of either 10 or 20 hours a week. All of this time was not face time with the kids, but time spent pulling grades, checking with other in the school on progress of the players and so forth. This really gave us a chance once a week after Weds practice to get our kids together... feed them... and talk about doing things right in life. Did it have a big impact on all of those kids? Probably not.. alot of them just enjoyed the free meal once a week. But.. as a young white coach in an all black school, I still to this day have 4 or 5 of those kids who think enough about me in their lives that they text once a month or so just to see how things are going. We bonded and they care about me, because I cared about them. I didnt make it just about football, I made it about their future as a person. Not one of those kids went on to play at the next level, so their football ended there. But all of them are now a member of society. If life skills and moral skills were not apart of what I was trying to teach, then I would have failed those kids. |
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Post by champ93 on Jul 10, 2010 9:16:25 GMT -6
champ93 I have heard of the Coachingto Change Lives program (by Dennis Parker I believe?). Do you feel it has benefited your kids? I would like to create something that does include elements of character because I feel that is important but I want it to also provide our guys with tools & advice that they can use after football. Here is a rough draft curriculum I have been working on: Leadership (pre season week 1) Alcohol Awareness (pre-season week 2) Nutrition (pre-season week 3) Academics (season week 1/ first week of school) Money (season week 2) Mental Health (season week 3) Drug Awareness (season week 4) Social Responsibility (season week 5) Social Skills (season week 6) Fatigue / Burnout (season week 7) Career Planning Part 1 (season week 8) Career Planning Part 2 (season week 9) Career Planning Part 3 (season week 10) I have a powerpoint I am working on that gets a little more in depth on each session. After I decide on a curriculum then I will start putting together the presentations. If anyone has any suggestions on where I could gather some resources pelase let me know. Also if you have any suggestions or critcisms feel free to tell me. I definitely feel the CCL curriculum is beneficial to kids. Yes, there are kids who pay lip service, toe the line during the season, and then become A-holes once they're done. But that seems to be the exception rather than the rule. Parents and teachers have both complimented our kids and "how they changed." Most of the kids also appreciate it and look forward to the stories and activities. And they actually appreciate that you're trying to help them with something outside of football. The tools are life long. The CCL curriculum does a real nice job of presenting stories on every topic such as what you listed. We decided to create our own recently. I gave each coach an assignment to come up with a few lessons of their own. Older Sports Illustrated Rick Reilly articles were often good, other inspirational stuff on the topics you listed would work. When I see something I like, I copy it and put in a file for later. Video clips work too. I tend to give lessons as I see what we may need. If I feel team-work is lagging, I'll give a lesson on teamwork. You may want to create these lessons as a tool-box approach and pull them out as you feel it is needed. |
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Post by mariner42 on Jul 10, 2010 14:57:06 GMT -6
www.buildingmenandwomen.org/index2.html I dunno if you're a Season Of Life guy, but the author Joe Ehrmann does a variety of stuff along those lines. I actually did something a few years ago where I assigned books Phil Jackson style and had the guys come prepared to talk about why they thought I assigned that particular book and what it can offer to better prepare them to be men. It was fun and I had some guys actually asking to be assigned books. I got like, 90% of them back, too. I've never been too organized with stuff like this because I've never had a 'team of my own' where I was the final authority. Lemme think on your outline and get back to you.
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Post by emptybackfield on Jul 10, 2010 15:05:32 GMT -6
Love this thread. I don't think we do near enough of this stuff, obviously because time is always so valuable during the season we're so focused on how we're going to win Friday night. I'm very interested to hear what others do and when/how they make time for it.
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Post by kylem56 on Jul 10, 2010 17:42:22 GMT -6
I was reading a discussion in another thread and it got me thinking.. does anyone out there have a "program" within their football program that is designed to teach life skills? Im not looking to start a debate on whether or not you should but I know alot of NCAA and even NFL teams will do this once a week where they have someone speak on money management, how to write a resume, alcohol & drugs, nutrition etc. The idea I got going in my head would be something like once a week beginning during 2 a days where we spend a half hour talking abouteach these various topics. Maybe its unrealistic but its just an idea at this point. Does anyone else do something like this? Year before last I enrolled our team in the "Play It Smart" program. Its not for everyone, and is geared towards schools with a large population of low income children. It provided a stipend to hire a coordinator to come in and work on academics as well as life skills with our players. They also provided tutoring 30 minutes before school. In order for the person to get paid they were supposed to work a total of either 10 or 20 hours a week. All of this time was not face time with the kids, but time spent pulling grades, checking with other in the school on progress of the players and so forth. This really gave us a chance once a week after Weds practice to get our kids together... feed them... and talk about doing things right in life. Did it have a big impact on all of those kids? Probably not.. alot of them just enjoyed the free meal once a week. But.. as a young white coach in an all black school, I still to this day have 4 or 5 of those kids who think enough about me in their lives that they text once a month or so just to see how things are going. We bonded and they care about me, because I cared about them. I didnt make it just about football, I made it about their future as a person. Not one of those kids went on to play at the next level, so their football ended there. But all of them are now a member of society. If life skills and moral skills were not apart of what I was trying to teach, then I would have failed those kids. airraider thats a big part of the reason I am exploring this idea. No, Im not at an inner city school but at the place I am at, for the overall well being of these kids, they need to be taught the right way to do things and build some confidence. Also, I dont know what next season or the next or the next will hold, but at the end of the year even if we dont win a game, I know that by doing something like this I can at least look myself in the face and be satisfied that I accomplished something. I am not the head coach, but I am fortuante enough to be in a situation where I can offer ideas and it be used. Im looking forward to exploring more about this idea |
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Post by airraider on Jul 10, 2010 21:54:05 GMT -6
Year before last I enrolled our team in the "Play It Smart" program. Its not for everyone, and is geared towards schools with a large population of low income children. It provided a stipend to hire a coordinator to come in and work on academics as well as life skills with our players. They also provided tutoring 30 minutes before school. In order for the person to get paid they were supposed to work a total of either 10 or 20 hours a week. All of this time was not face time with the kids, but time spent pulling grades, checking with other in the school on progress of the players and so forth. This really gave us a chance once a week after Weds practice to get our kids together... feed them... and talk about doing things right in life. Did it have a big impact on all of those kids? Probably not.. alot of them just enjoyed the free meal once a week. But.. as a young white coach in an all black school, I still to this day have 4 or 5 of those kids who think enough about me in their lives that they text once a month or so just to see how things are going. We bonded and they care about me, because I cared about them. I didnt make it just about football, I made it about their future as a person. Not one of those kids went on to play at the next level, so their football ended there. But all of them are now a member of society. If life skills and moral skills were not apart of what I was trying to teach, then I would have failed those kids. airraider thats a big part of the reason I am exploring this idea. No, Im not at an inner city school but at the place I am at, for the overall well being of these kids, they need to be taught the right way to do things and build some confidence. Also, I dont know what next season or the next or the next will hold, but at the end of the year even if we dont win a game, I know that by doing something like this I can at least look myself in the face and be satisfied that I accomplished something. I am not the head coach, but I am fortuante enough to be in a situation where I can offer ideas and it be used. Im looking forward to exploring more about this idea Yea the program was just a vehicle to get it done... It provided the money to pay someone to do it. One of our English teachers actually was our "academic coach" for this program. But... I have been in a couple of situations where we had left over stipends because we couldnt find enough coaches.. so we could have easily hired a teacher out of the building with that money as our academic coach.. The play it smart program just allowed us a structured way to achieve the things we wanted to see happen. But the bottom line is getting face time with your kids in a non-football environment and teaching them about things that will make them productive citizens one day. |
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Post by coachjm on Jul 11, 2010 8:10:46 GMT -6
Kyle,
We are bringing on a youth pastor to our staff this year to help us do this very thing. His teachings will be secular. I'm very excited about this for several reasons, I think it is helpful to have an outside person as it is a different voice that is supporting the themes that the Coaches are presenting. We are excited to have a youth pastor because 1. he is professionally trained in discussing integrity type issues 2. he is professionally trained to work with this specific age group. We are a public school and he fully understands the importance of keeping a seperation of his biblical beliefs in what he is teaching. Our mission with this is identical to what you are discussing and we are fortunate enough to have this help.
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Post by coachweav88 on Jul 13, 2010 8:09:45 GMT -6
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Post by ryanculloty on Jul 13, 2010 9:03:09 GMT -6
Anything from www.jeffjanssen.com/coaching/resources.htmlemail coach klausing and he has a list he will send you that he used he is on bucksweep.com I use the following terms to teach leadership to my players: All with a powerpoint and discussion Attitude Preparation Perseverance Respect Honesty Integrity Courage Appreciation Self-Control Empathy Gratitude Tolerance Duty Loyalty Responsibility Compassion Leadership Character Anything we can teach our boys about becoming men will benefit them and your program 10 fold... |
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Post by jgordon1 on Jul 13, 2010 9:04:18 GMT -6
we use Janssenn too
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Post by jml on Jul 13, 2010 20:47:44 GMT -6
I use the following terms to teach leadership to my players: All with a powerpoint and discussion Attitude Preparation Perseverance Respect Honesty Integrity Courage Appreciation Self-Control Empathy Gratitude Tolerance Duty Loyalty Responsibility Compassion Leadership Character Anything we can teach our boys about becoming men will benefit them and your program 10 fold... Coach that is a great list. Would you be willing to share some of those powerpoints? JML |
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Post by coachwilley on Jul 13, 2010 20:54:44 GMT -6
Not quite the same, but one year we followed Tom Osborn's character training. We actually had our leadership council discuss and vote on the top 8 traits that were most important. This gave the kids some ownership of the program. Then each week we would have coaches talk about what the trait meant to them on Monday, players on Tuesday, and a special guest before practice on Wednesday.
It was great, I wrote a letter to Mr. Osborne and he took the time to write me and the team a letter back as the guest speaker that week. I don't know why I didn't do it again last year.
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