Background and purpose:
The purpose of this small-scale action research is to reflect on professional and practical challenges of a coach from a secondary school activity in Macao. The couch who built a positive hockey team but faced challenges of reshaping and encouraging good behaviors and pleasant atmospheres. The coach intended to implement teaching personal and social responsibility model to take lead of a team culture and explore players’ attitude in term of respect, self-motivation, self-direction and caring.
Methods:
This small-scale action research has been applied with two simple cycles, plan, and action, observe and reflect developed by Stephen Kemmis (MacIsaac, 1995). With a designated-6-week daily training program by using TPSR model and divided into two cycles. There were 15 players (male, aged 15-17) had consented to participate in this study, and the data was collected from coach training journals, players’ interviews, video recording, observer record and professional talks by different prospective (triangulation).
Results and conclusion:
Whilst carrying out the action plan of the hockey team daily training program, the coach narrated that the corresponding strategies for applying the TPSR model were to design small games in warm-up exercise, and to modify games in training activities in order to create the expected positive sport team culture. Which ameliorate players’ personality and behaviors especially sense of purpose and responsibility. TPSR model brings out the importance of respecting and cooperating with others to players, and thus consolidate their socio-emotional skills, communicate, cooperate, and deal with conflict. Researcher therefore improve the skills of designing positive sport team training program and strengthen the professional development for coach. There are suggestions that elongating the period of carrying out the plan and try to put TPSR model for individual player.
Keywords: Action Research, TPSR, High School Sport. Hockey Team
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