For more information regarding any of the courses below or to inquire about booking a course, please contact AFF Regional Coach Development Co-ordinator Aaron McFarland.

For a full calendar of upcoming coaching courses click here.

Level 1 - Youth Coaching Award - Available 2009
Cost: Silver $100, Gold $40, Silver + Gold pre-paid $125

The Youth Coaching Award is aimed at coaches of players aged between 12-19 and provides coaches with the appropriate level of knowledge and skills that will encourage player participation and support age appropriate player development in fun, safe and rewarding environments.

Coaches will be presented with opportunities to participate in and complete practical workshops while distance learning, including both on-line and self development tasks to be completed in their own coaching environment, will cover:

- Exploring effective coaching strategies
- Understanding players’ age related characteristics
- Understanding player centred learning
- Understanding age appropriate player development
- Planning, designing and delivering age appropriate practices

The Youth Coaching Award can be achieved at either Silver or Gold Level. The Gold Level can be achieved by completing all of the prescribed distance learning tasks and attendance at a two hour  ‘Gold Level Summary Workshop’.   

All attendees will receive a Youth Coaching Personal Development Folder and a catalogue of age-appropriate training activities and games.

Level 2 - Youth Coaching Certificate - Available 2009

The Youth Coaching Certificate is aimed at coaches of players aged between 12-19 with the desire to increase their own effectiveness in supporting their players’ game understanding and want to increase their knowledge of effective game play in the playing formats their players’ experience in 11v11.

The course will based around a number of themed modules.

Module 1: Game Day Coaching - Available 2009
Cost: $70

Coaches will be presented with opportunities to participate in and complete practical workshops while distance learning incorporates self development tasks to be completed in their own coaching environment covering:

- Understanding playing formats 11v11
- Using principles of play to guide player development in the 11v11
- Understanding strategies to support player learning on game days
- Developing strategies to link the game day and weekly training 

Module 1 of the Level 2 Youth Coaching Certificate can be achieved at either Silver or Gold Level.  The Gold Level can be achieved by completing and showing evidence of all the prescribed distance learning tasks.

Module 2: Player-Centred Coaching - Available in 2009
Cost: $55

This module introduces coaches to using the Teaching Games For Understanding coaching tool, demonstrates how to use 'questioning' effectively, aids coach understanding of how players learn and demonstrates practical ideas to develop a player-centred approach to coaching.

All attendees receive Youth Coaching Personal Development Folder and Module Inserts