Aims

The student is able to:
- coach youth athletes' training processes (starting from the age of 14) until they get promising on a recreational and/or (regionally) competitive level.
- supervise youth players in a pedagogically safe and ethically correct manner
- develop a concrete short term planning for training physical characteristics and technical/tactical skills for handball within the context of a general vision on the youth programme's existing learning lines.
- supervise the training process and, when necessary, make adjustments in view of an existing training plan
- teach young athletes the basic principles of a healthy lifestyle in view of sports activities
- collect new technical information independently, process it and translate it into professional coaching of young athletes.
- apply the regulations of handball
- develop a planning and periodisation
- perform an attack: individual, in group and in team
- perform a correct counter attack
- perform in defence: individual, in group and in the different defence systems
- perform the basic skills of a goalkeeper
 
During this course the student will: 
- Get familiar with guest lectures, self-study and peer instruction (students of the master program function as mentors).
- Learn how to use different media (video, PC) during the training/lesson.
- Become scaled by VTS (level depending on sports discipline)

Previous knowledge

Prerequisites credit contract/Prerequisites for students who are not registrered for the program bachelor of Physical Education and Movement Sciences/Master of Movement and Sports Sciences, but wish to include the course as a component of choice in their program:
Because of educational, organisational and safety aspects, an admission is required. This involves an individual application with indication of competences and motivation. Contact: FaBeR Helpdesk

Previous knowledge
Apart from prerequisites for bachelor programmes within the group 'Biomedische Wetenschappen' at KULeuven, the following specific prerequisites apply as well.

Knowledge
Students are familiar with the basic concepts of training education
- they can explain the factors determining the realisation of a successful training process
- they can indicate that the training of sporting skills requires a 'global approach' which involves physical, technical and tactical elements but also incorporates affective and psychosocial elements.

Skills
Students have acquired elementary technical/tactical skills during interactive physical activities (football).
Students have experience as players in a club and/or as youth coaches for 6-14-year-olds.

Attitude
Students are interested in handball and follow this discipline in the media

Order of Enrolment

You can only take this course if you have to acquire no more than 162 credits to obtain your degree.

Mixed prerequisite:
You may only take this course if you comply with the prerequisites. Prerequisites can be strict or flexible, or can imply simultaneity. A degree level can be also be a prerequisite.
Explanation:
STRICT: You may only take this course if you have passed or applied tolerance for the courses for which this condition is set.
FLEXIBLE: You may only take this course if you have previously taken the courses for which this condition is set.
SIMULTANEOUS: You may only take this course if you also take the courses for which this condition is set (or have taken them previously).
DEGREE: You may only take this course if you have obtained this degree level.


FLEXIBLE(L02B8B) AND FLEXIBLE(L04B1B) AND SIMULTANEOUS(L00B3C) AND SIMULTANEOUS(L05O0A)

The codes of the course units mentioned above correspond to the following course descriptions:
L02B8B : Interactive Movement Activities I
L04B1B : Interactive Movement Activities II
L00B3C : Theories of Exercise Training Part 1
L05O0A : Teaching Methodology in Physical Education: Introduction and Microteaching

This course unit is a prerequisite for taking the following course units:
L04D8B : Internship: Handball

Is included in these courses of study

• Bachelor of Physical Education and Movement Sciences (Abridged Programme) (Leuven) 92 ects.
• Bachelor of Physical Education and Movement Sciences (Leuven) 180 ects.
• Preparatory Programme: Master of Movement and Sports Sciences (Leuven) 106 ects.
• Bridging Programme: Master of Teaching in Physical Education (Leuven) (Study Path after ‘Bachelor of Teaching in Physical Education with Movement Recreation') 83 ects.
• Bridging Programme: Master of Teaching in Physical Education (Leuven) (Study Path after ‘Bachelor of Teaching in Physical Education without Movement Recreation') 83 ects.
• Preparatory Programma: Master of Teaching in Physical Education (Leuven) 115 ects.