DISTANCE LEARNING

The National Aikido Federation is working to insure that its students and instructors are equipped to develop their coaching and learning skills for the challenges of the new millennium. As a consequence the NAF has formed a learning partnership with Norton Radstock College that provides all members with the opportunity to gain nationally recognised teaching and coaching qualifications. In this way the College will be helping to raise the level of coaching expertise and the level of practice for all those who take part in Aikido.
There are three different programmes on offer:

National Vocational Qualification in Coaching Aikido (Programme 1)

National Vocational Qualifications are part of the national drive to raise the levels of competence of everyone working in the United Kingdom. They are administered by national awarding bodies and cover the widest range of occupations. In our case we are working with the Coaching Qualifications validated by the City and Guilds Institute.
The Aikido Coaching qualifications, like all National Vocational Qualifications, provide a comprehensive series of standards, which define the role of a competent coach in Aikido. The standards cover a range of units, which are common to good coaching in all sports, and three units which and specific to the competent coaching of Aikido.
The College has worked with the British Aikido Board and the National Aikido Federation in drawing up the technical specification for a good coach, with adults and children, at level 2.


National Vocational Qualification Assessor Award D32/D33 (Programme 2)

In order to deliver the Coaching National Vocational Qualification the NAF is encouraging the senior instructors in clubs to gain their National Vocational Qualification Assessor Award. This involves instructors in gaining two specific units of the National Vocational Qualification in teaching at level 3.7306

Further and Adult Education Teaching Certificate (Programme 3)

These units of the Assesor Award form part of the Further and Adult Education Teaching Certificate. This is the qualification that most lecturers in Colleges of Further Education are encouraged to acquire. This is the natural progression for those instructors who wish to develop their coaching expertise to the next level.

You can become involved in any or all of these areas by participating in the programmes being led by City of Bristol College.

All the programs contain elements of distance learning, assignments to be completed in your club, and in peer group sessions organised at NAF national courses in Bristol and the other regional centres.
If you wish to find out more about how you can benefit from any of the three programmes, please contact

Michael Narey
Temple Gate Training
Herbert House
Lower Station Approach
Temple Meads
Bristol
BS1 6QS
Telephone 0870 9220037
michael@templegatedojo.org.uk