What can coach education programmes learn from the teachers? Model-Based Instruction in a UK national governing body award course

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the role and nature of Model Based Instruction (MBI) and discuss how Instructional Models (IM) such as Tactical Games Concepts (TGC) and Sport Education (SE) have become embedded in the pedagogic delivery of a coach education programme for one particular sports governing body, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). This article will discuss how learning 'how to coach' principles have elements of MBI and reaffirm the view current coach education discourse and physical education discourse actually contain more similarities than differences. It is recommended that coach education teams engage in greater collaboration with experienced teachers of physical education as well as academics in higher education institutes (HEI's) recognised for their expertise in MBI.