HPE 584 - Mentoring of Coaches and Athletes

Description:
The mentoring course provides students with the knowledge, skills, and personal behaviors, and relationships that affect the athletic director’s ability to mentor coaches and student-athletes. Students will review the concepts of leadership and apply them to mentoring theory. Mentoring theory and leadership skills will be applied to mentoring activities within and outside of the class in efforts to create a mentoring program.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: open to students in the physical education, school, and public health program.

Credits:
(3)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Review, discuss, and compare transactional and transformational leadership styles and the role of each in mentoring coaches and athletes.
Examine the concepts of moral and servant leadership.
Recognize and understand the role of character and value education in athletics.
Review the term “mentor” and place it in the context of the athletic program.
Examine the key elements of successful mentoring.
Examine mentoring theory and its application in athletic programs.
Recognize and understand the responsibilities of the mentor and mentee that will improve “mentoring relationships” in athletic programs.
Examine the process for implementing a “mentoring program” within the athletic program.
Recognize the phases of implementing a “mentoring program.”
Review examples of successful mentoring programs and relationships in athletic programs.

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
6/24/2010

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