Training
Canoe
England also provides a network
of Regional Coaching Organisers
and Local Coaching Organisers,
support to coaches and
endeavours to provide a range of
update and personal development
opportunities for coaches at all
levels. The tests and
qualifications are organised
into three overall categories,
with levels of competence within
each category:
Coaching
Qualification - Teaching of
canoeists
From Level
1 to Level 5
The tests and qualifications are
structured to take account of
the type of craft being used and
the type of canoeing
environment, for instance very
sheltered water through to
advanced water (demanding
conditions).
Coaching
Qualification - Competition
canoeists
Discipline
Support Modules
On behalf of BCU Coaching UK,
Canoe England is committed to
providing clear, effective and
validated access to its coaching
awards to all who seek to coach
others in paddlesport
activities. It aims to provide
coaches with opportunities to
develop core skills via a coach
education and training programme
linked to a well signed
development / performance
pathway.We are committed to
quality coaching and the
provision of ongoing coach
education and continued personal
development. Performance
standards and performer
development models ensure an
integrated and networked
approach to providing well
defined pathways to paddler /
coach performance right across
the performance continuum.
Once registered with BCU
Coaching UK coaches, aspirant
and qualified have immediate and
updated access to materials
outlining all qualification
specifications and requirements.
A wide range of guidance notes
for training and assessment
opportunities are provided along
with an extensive range of
additional support materials, so
important to modern coaches
working within the
infrastructure of a governing
body i.e. Coaches Code of Ethics
and Duty of Care, Child
Protection and Screening
Volunteers Information, Injury
Prevention In Paddlesport,
Insurance Guidelines, Guidelines
for Centres and Authorities etc.
BCU Coaching UK has sought to
put in place, and maintain, an
administrative system that
allows all administrative
procedures associated with its
range of qualification courses
to be effectively and
efficiently dealt with, ensuring
clear separation between
awarding and delivery functions.
This system allows coaches
access to a register of coaches
and provides an audit trail to a
coaches, coaching background,
training and ongoing personal
development. All details in
respect of fee structures, costs
and resources available for all
qualification training and
awards are regularly updated and
are made accessible to coaches
and centres via regular
bulletins, magazines,
publications and the web.
BCU Coaching UK provides and
requires its coach education
centres to attend regular
workshops and updates on
technical and procedural
developments within paddlesport,
coach education and in respect
of legal matters. All coach
education centres receive
regular update bulletins to keep
them abreast of developments and
to inform them of dates of
workshops and clinics. Both
workshops and bulletins provide
opportunities for consultation
and direct communication between
BCU coaching UK and its coach
educators.
BCU Coaching UK has a fully
published and accessible formal
complaints procedure which can
be invoked by all Coaching
Service participants. BCU
Coaching UK, as the awarding
body of coaching qualifications
in paddlesport, has put in place
a number of mechanisms for the
measuring of its quality
provision and to check that it
has met its commitments to
coaches and Centres. While the
foremost of these are its
quality assurance programme and
centre approval programme and
workshops, it also seeks regular
feedback from all involved in
the provision of coaching awards
via a range of effective
feedback forms (from coaches to
centres and from centres to BCU
Coaching UK) and monitoring
visits and phone calls. The BCU
Coaching UK Quality Assurance
Programme and the Centre
Approval Programme and workshops
provide a direct mechanism for
centres and coach educators to
be monitored and measured
against the UK standards .
