Instructors
Hockey Canada Safety Program
The ultimate goal of this program is to have safety persons, coaches, and managers implement injury prevention and safety through risk management and education. This will be accomplished by providing the Safety Person(s) with risk management, safety tools and information to allow them to implement effective injury prevention and risk management programs where safety is the first priority at all the levels.
Instructors have a medical background (doctor, nurse, EMT, Physiotherapist, Athletic Therapist, etc.) as well as experience instructing. Experience in hockey is an asset.
Hockey Canada Initiation Program – Intro to Coaching
Coaches attend a four hour course, which reviews the basic tools they will need in the areas of leadership, communication, teaching skills, and lesson planning. All this is taught with the special considerations of the youngest athletes in mind. Coaches qualified in the Initiation Program (Intro to Coaching) receive a manual that provides progressive practice plans. The practice plans are tailor-made for teaching the beginner to ensure their first experience with hockey is fun and positive. This manual eliminates much of the planning necessary to ensure a fun and effective practice and remove much of the demand from coaches who often find themselves with little time to plan their practices.
Instructors are certified at a minimum of NCCP Coach level.
National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP)
There are three (3) levels in the NCCP, they are Coach Level, Development I, and Development II. Each course follows the competency based education and training method of learning and is designed to give coaches plenty of opportunities to do and think for themselves through classroom theory and on-ice participation.
Instructors for each level will be certified at least one level higher than what they are instructing.
Hockey Alberta has developed in conjunction with Bjorn Kinding, one of the world’s best skill developing instructors, a new comprehensive checking skills course. In this course coaches attend a seven (7) hour course that reviews and educates them on the basic tools they require to teach in order to emphasize basic checking skills and the importance of having players develop confidence, self-esteem and an awareness of the checking process.
Instructors have a few years experience instructing with Hockey Alberta.
An education program dealing with the prevention of bullying, harassment and abuse in hockey. Aimed to impact on the attitudes, skills and knowledge of the coach/instructor that will result in a safe, sportsmanlike environment for all players.
Instructors have a background or training in Abuse and harassment (i.e. RCMP, City police, or have taken the Red Cross Harassment training).
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