IDTD1005 Developing your professional coaching identity

    • Course code
      IDTD1005
    • Number of credits
      5
    • Teaching semester
      2024 Spring
    • Language of instruction
      English
    • Campus
      Elverum
    • Required prerequisite knowledge

      No prerequisites.

Course content
  • Self and identity
  • Role(s) of the professional coach
  • Career transition and re-identification
  • Resonance in performance and life
  • Coach wellbeing and self-care
  • Professional coach philosophy

Learning Outcome

Upon completion of the course, the student must have acquired the following learning outcomes:

Knowledge

The student has knowledge and understanding of

  • own identity
  • professional, intrapersonal and interpersonal skills of the coach
  • professional coach role
  • professional coach values
  • coach wellbeing
  • role of resonance in performance and life
Skills

The student can work with

  • self-awareness
  • self-reflection
  • self-development
  • self-leading
General competence

The student can

  • resonate self with the professional role of the coach
  • cope with the demands and uncertainty of professional coaching role
  • practice self-care to safeguard wellbeing
  • can lead own development as a professional coach
Teaching and working methods

Self-awareness facilitated teaching via synchronous and asynchronous digital

  • lectures
  • group work
  • individual work
  • journaling
Required coursework
  1. Reflection note 1: who am I, the person (RPM questions 1, 2) (500-750 words)
  2. Reflection note 2: who is the professional coach (500-750 words)
  3. Reflection note 3: who am I, the coach (RPM questions 3, 4, 5) (1000-1500 words)
Assessments
Form of assessmentGrading scaleGroupingDuration of assessmentSupport materialsProportionComment
Oral examination
Passed - not passed
Individual
Form of assessment

Individual oral exam: Meta-reflection on reflection note 3 followed by a discussion

Evaluated as Pass/Fail based on two criteria: depth and width of student’s meta-reflection and of answers during the exam discussion.

Course name in Norwegian Nynorsk: 
Planlegga, gjennomføra og delta på éin studentstyrt praktisk økt
Course name in Norwegian Bokmål: 
Developing your professional coaching identity
Faculty
Faculty of Social and Health Sciences
Department
Institutt for folkehelse- og idrettsvitenskap
Area of study
Idrettsutdanning
Programme of study
Bachelor's Degree in Sport - with Specialisation in the Role of Coach
Course level
Foundation courses, level I (100-LN)