The Arbroath Way is a curriculum framework that has broken down each stage of a players development and set out a series of Mastery Points (Master the Ball, Master the Opponent, Master the Game, Master the Position, Master the Match) they should concentrate on from age 1 to 21.
Each Mastery Point in the framework has a series of manageable skills, and these are the skills we feel are vital for players to master.
Why create a curriculum?
"A curriculum is a comprehensive document written with an eye to the long term. It describes the things players will understand and be able to do at each stage of their development.
This ensures that they have both the technical skills to execute and the knowledge of the game necessary to inform decisions. And it ensures that coaches know that all their players know these things by a certain point. This is important. You can’t use, refer to, or expand upon a concept as a coach unless you know confidently that all players understand it already.
Few coaches have this luxury. They refer to an idea and hope that most of their players know what they’re talking about with no way to know for sure.....An ideal curriculum is specific as to what level of mastery of what content by when."
Lemov, Doug. The Coach's Guide to Teaching
Quite simply, The Arbroath Way takes the "hope" out of coaching and turns it into a methodical process that develops all players at each age and stage of their individual development by building on the last stage. It is learning gold dust. Here's how ours works.....
As an organisation, we recognise the input of David Baird's Scoreboard Soccer concept and highly recommend that you check out his work. It is a vital tool to have in the coaching toolbox.
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