YOU WANT TO BECOME A COACH.
You may have no formal coaching qualification yet, but you are interested in sport, willing to learn, comfortable working with children and young people, and prepared to commit to regular practical development.
COACH EDUCATION PROGRAMME
NO QUALIFICATION YET? START HERE.
Our Coach Education Programme gives people aged 16+ a supported route into coaching. You learn practically alongside our team, build real experience and work towards becoming a qualified gymnastics coach.
A SUPPORTED ROUTE INTO COACHING
LEARN IT.
LEARN IT.
PRACTISE IT.
PROVE IT.
You do not need to arrive already knowing how to coach. If we believe you have the right attitude and potential, our Tutor Coaches will work with you to develop the practical skills and knowledge you need.
You normally attend for approximately 1 to 2 voluntary hours each week, working in real AAAsports classes alongside experienced members of our team.
Your development is tracked as you learn, so you can see what has been achieved, what you are currently developing and what still needs to be signed off.
FIRST CAREER. NEXT CAREER. NEW DIRECTION.
Coach Education is open from age 16+. It can suit somebody starting out, changing career, returning to work, or simply looking for a flexible way to develop into coaching.
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS EACH WEEK?
YOU LEARN IN REAL CLASSES.
This is not a classroom-only programme. Your development happens inside AAAsports, working alongside a Tutor Coach and gradually building the confidence and ability to coach our Members.
WATCH & UNDERSTAND
Learn how classes are structured, how coaches communicate, how activities are organised and how Members are supported.
START GETTING INVOLVED
Assist with class delivery, support individual participants and begin taking responsibility for appropriate parts of sessions.
BUILD COACHING SKILLS
Develop instruction, observation, feedback, class management, safety awareness and the practical skills needed to coach.
TRACK YOUR PROGRESS
Your Tutor Coach records and signs off the required areas as you demonstrate them, creating a clear record of your development.
TWO THINGS HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME
DEVELOP THE COACH.
DEVELOP THE COACH.
GAIN THE QUALIFICATION.
We are not simply sending you away on a course and expecting you to come back knowing how to coach. Your practical AAAsports development and your governing-body qualification work together.
LEARN HOW WE EXPECT OUR CLASSES TO BE DELIVERED.
You work regularly with a Tutor Coach, develop through real classes and build the competencies needed to eventually take responsibility for AAAsports sessions.
WORK TOWARDS YOUR FIRST FORMAL COACHING QUALIFICATION.
Our team mentors and prepares you for the Foundation Coach qualification. AAAsports funds the coaching qualification while you are responsible for purchasing your own British Gymnastics Membership.
YOUR FOUNDATION COACH JOURNEY
PREPARE BEFORE IT.
PREPARE BEFORE IT.
DEVELOP AFTER IT.
The qualification is a major milestone, but it sits inside a wider development journey. Your Tutor Coach helps prepare you before the course and your AAAsports development continues afterwards.
PREPARE WITH YOUR TUTOR COACH
Build the knowledge and practical understanding that will help you get the most from the qualification.
COMPLETE THE ONLINE ELEMENT
Work through the required online part of your British Gymnastics Foundation Coach qualification.
FOUR-DAY PRACTICAL COURSE
Complete the practical course element and demonstrate the required coaching knowledge and ability.
RETURN & KEEP DEVELOPING
Bring the qualification back into your AAAsports development and continue working towards our Internal Assessment.
THE PRACTICAL DETAILS
TIME
COST
MEMBERSHIP
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO COMMIT TO?
AROUND 1 TO 2 HOURS EACH WEEK
Your practical development is normally completed voluntarily each week alongside one of our Tutor Coaches.
WE FUND THE COACHING QUALIFICATION
AAAsports pays the cost of your British Gymnastics Foundation Coach qualification if you are accepted onto the programme.
YOU FUND YOUR BG MEMBERSHIP
Coach Education participants are responsible for purchasing and maintaining the British Gymnastics Membership required for their coaching pathway.
AAAsports
INTERNAL
ASSESSMENT
INTERNAL
ASSESSMENT
QUALIFIED DOES NOT MEAN FINISHED
EVERYONE STILL HAS TO MEET OUR STANDARD.
Completing your Foundation Coach qualification does not automatically make you an AAAsports Coach.
Your tracked development continues until the required areas have been completed and both you and your Tutor Coach believe you are ready to be put forward.
You then have to demonstrate that you can safely, confidently and consistently deliver an AAAsports class to our minimum internal coaching standard. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PASS?
PASS. PREPARE.
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PASS. PREPARE.
START COACHING.
COMPLETE ROLE REQUIREMENTS
Finish any outstanding requirements relevant to your role, including safeguarding where needed.
RECEIVE YOUR COACHES UNIFORM
Passing the Internal Assessment is the point at which you have demonstrated the standard required to represent AAAsports as a coach.
PAID COACHING OPPORTUNITIES
You become eligible to begin taking paid AAAsports coaching hours, normally on a zero-hours basis.
KEEP DEVELOPING
Build experience, gain further qualifications and create more coaching opportunities over time.
Paid hours are not guaranteed at a fixed level. Opportunities depend on factors including your availability, our timetable and staffing needs, your experience and the qualifications you hold.
YOUR FOUNDATION
GYMNASTICS COMES FIRST.
AAAsports delivers several disciplines, but our core coaching pathway starts with gymnastics. Everybody develops that foundation first.
Once you are established as an AAAsports Coach, you can choose to continue developing and gain further qualifications in other areas.
WHAT MATTERS MOST?
BRING THE RIGHT ATTITUDE.
INTEREST
ENTHUSIASM
RELIABILITY
WILLINGNESS TO LEARN
WILLINGNESS TO GET INVOLVED
OPENNESS TO FEEDBACK
We can teach coaching. We can develop knowledge. We can fund qualifications and give you experience.
What we cannot create for you is enthusiasm. We want people who genuinely want to be here, get involved, ask questions, listen to feedback and want to become better.
If you bring that, we can work with you on the rest.
COULD THIS BE YOUR STARTING POINT?
START LEARNING. BECOME THE COACH.
You do not need a coaching qualification to apply. If you have the interest, enthusiasm and willingness to learn, the Coach Education Programme could be your route into the AAAsports team.
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