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Designing game-like, inquiry based learning experiences
4 C Approach to Developing Adaptable Decision Makers
Gérard's coaching philosophy is built around a 4-C approach with a conscious focus on the learning environment, considering the player's needs and what experiences can be designed to enhance their learning and performing, drawing from a ecological dynamics-rational and Constraints-Led-Approach to guide attention
The Game
Gérard's coaching is based on the understanding that the game is a complex, dynamical system and players make decisions based on time, space and number changes. Practice and Learning is "SEARCH" as players perceive in order to act and act in order to perceive
The Coach
Gérard's role is that of a learning designer. Whether working in an elite performance environment or as a youth developer, it's about recreating game situations and designing learning problems for the players to solve
Practice Considerations
Every training session and activity must reinforce our Traits, Fundamentals and Principles. What is the identity and how we want to play, the club/team Non-Negotiables and how can we refine and enhance good habits whilst designing game problems based on our Principles of the Game
Session Structure
Every session consists of Arrival/Starter Activities that feed into opportunities where players can work on our/their traits and fundamentals. The flow of the session can change, and may be progressive, constant or regressive depending on player needs, and how we want to manipulate numbers and scenarios, but the priority is on designing either Directional Conditioned Games or Tactical Conditioned Games that are representative of the game
Protected Time
Irrespective of whether the training session is a team training session, or unit-specific, or individual/small-group work, everything we do is 'personalised'
Team training sessions will involve individualised training where there is a focus on the individual needs of players and emphasis on their IDP, with protected time focused on placing players in environments related to their individual needs and in either Directional or Tactical Conditioned Games and therefore Game-like experiences for the majority of the training session