Syllabus
1. Introduction to the subject. General system of talent identification and selection. Children rights
2. Genetically predisposition of giftedness.
3. External and internal parameters of an athlete. Biological age, external conditions (family, school)
4. A model of sport talent. What a talent it means? Different types of a model of youth athlete as a talent.
5. Testing – parameters of a test – validity, reliability and stability and their reason for talent identification. Predictive cycles – how to create a useful prediction system
6. How to select an athlete – different models of talent selection. Practical examples of talent selection models – different models for different type of selection
7. Support of talent (family, clubs, school, government)
8. Children and Sports training – aims, tasks and basic terms: stages of children’s development, biological and chronological age, sensitive periods
9. Long term athletes development: early specialization, training corresponding with development, versatility, stages of training
10. Aspects of work with children - common principles of work with children: relations of adults to children, time utilization, training unit organization.
11. Specify of kids training: strength and power development, aims, stages, methods and tools of strength development. Speed and agility development, aims, stages, methods and tools of speed and agility development.
12. Specify of kids training: endurance development, aims, stages, methods and tools of endurance development. Coordination development, aims, stages, methods and tools of coordination development. Flexibility development, aims, stages, methods and tools of flexibility development
13. Technical preparation: stages and methods of skills development, Tactical preparation – stages and methods of tactical skills development. Psychological and mental preparation: motivation, arousal, flow.
14. Coach: leadership and communication, parents’ management, injury prevention.
Annotation
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the issue of children's sports training, to determine the general starting points of this issue as a basis for training in later years. It is mainly about determining different approaches, forms and methods compared to adult training, to master the issue of age and developmental patterns and their importance.
In other areas, the course deals with the long-term concept of training, general principles for children's training, the components of sports training and their form in this period. The subject also deals with supplementary questions such as relation to school, parents, etc.