Girls Softball Athletic Coach: Jr. High (7-8)

Under general direction, incumbent(s) coaches sports activities to students, including creating game plans, observing practice drills, and explaining safety, rules, and history of the sport. Incumbent(s) schedules activities and tournaments, prepares area of use, and sets up appropriate staff needed to carry out practices and games.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Creates game plans.
• Creates practice drills to implement game plan during competition.
• Observes students during practice to detect and correct mistakes.
• Oversees students during competition and tournaments.
• Explains and enforces safety rules and regulations.
• Lectures on history and purposes of sport.
• Explains method of keeping score.
• Explains and demonstrates use of apparatus and equipment.
• Utilizes health service protocols to ensure safety for students.
• Explains and demonstrates principles, techniques, and methods of regulating movement of body to achieve proficiency in activity.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Understanding early, middle, and adolescent childhood;
• Supervising children including safety and health issues;
• Developing age-appropriate lessons for children;
• Instructing children;
• Identifying safety hazards to children;
• Understanding rules of the sport;
• Engaging and encouraging communication skills while interacting with supervisors, staff, students, etc. to exchange information.