The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Coach Education supports the development of coaches and coach developers at all levels of the game, to ensure they’re able to provide players with the best possible experience of playing cricket and the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding of the game to help them fulfil their potential.
The England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) offer a range of world-leading learning experiences and qualifications to suit people coaching at all levels of the game, from those volunteering at their local club to professional coaches working in an elite, international environment.
All our courses are designed around the players you work with and their stage of development.”
Community Coaching:
ECB Community Coach Education provides a range of qualifications for those looking to take part in cricket, as a coach, in a support role or to develop skills and knowledge to enable them to deliver cricket in a school, club or community setting.
Performance Coaching:
This programme aims to identify and develop performance-based coaches and equip them with the knowledge, skills and thinking to work effectively with players and teams, providing them with opportunities for continued learning and ongoing support.
Elite Coaching:
The ECB Elite Coach Development Programme is designed to support the continuous development of highly qualified and experienced coaches who work with players either at, or with the potential to achieve, elite performance.
ECB Cricket Activator:
This 6 hour workshop / course looks to identify and understand the various roles that make cricket happen, understand the expectations of people in these roles, and understand how to promote cricket to get more people playing more often. It will also signpost attendees to further opportunities to progress as part of the cricket workforce.
Who should Attend? People wishing to volunteer in any way at all in getting cricket played and played more often. Open to all, no upper or lower age limit.
ECB Coach Support Worker:
Who Should Attend? Individuals wishing to assist under the direct supervision of ECB qualified coaches in the delivery of high quality practical cricket coaching sessions within a club environment.
Commitment Attend a 6 hour workshop
Pre-Requisites for Certification Current DBS (CRB), Safeguarding & Protecting Children, Aged 16 years at least to begin the course.
Primary Education Environment:
ECB Cricket for Teachers Primary:
The programme will help teachers, teaching assistants, higher level teaching assistants and other adults supporting learning within schools understand how cricket can be used to deliver high-quality PE and school sport and introduce the power and versatility of the New Howzat! resource.
Who Should Attend? Teachers, Teaching Assistants (TA’s), Higher Level TA’s, Student Teachers and other Adults supporting learning within Key Stage Two 7 to 11 year olds in schools.
Commitment Attend a 4 Hour workshop
>Secondary Education Environment:
ECB Cricket for Teachers Secondary: 4 hour workshop
The programme will help teachers, teaching assistants, higher level teaching assistants and other adults supporting learning within schools understand how cricket can be used to deliver high quality PE and school sport and introduce the power and versatility of the New Howzat! resource.
Who Should Attend? Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Student Teachers, Governors and other Adults supporting learning within Secondary Schools.
Coaching Children Environment:
ECB Certificate in Coaching Children’s Cricket (UKCC Level 2)
Who Should Attend?
Coaches who are going to Coach Children from 6 to 13 years of age. They may be new coaches, existing UKCC1/ECB L1 or Young Person and Adult coaches who wish to access child specific content
Commitment?
Coaches will be required to attend 8 x 3 Hour Modules, complete off-course home-study online E-modules tasks in between modules and six sessions of supported practice usually in your own Club Coaching environment.
Pre-requisites for Certification Emergency 1st Aid Certificate, Safeguarding & Protecting Children, current DBS (CRB), aged 17 years at least to begin the course and 18 years at Assessment.
Coaching Young People and Adults Environment:
ECB Certificate in Coaching Young People and Adults Cricket (UKCC Level 2)
Who Should Attend? Coaches who are going to Coach Young People and Adults in Open Age Cricket. They may be new coaches, existing UKCC1/ECB L1 or Childrens coaches who wish to access young person and adult specific content
Commitment Coaches will be required to attend 8 x 3 Hour Modules, complete off-course home-study online E-modules tasks in between modules and six sessions of supported practice usually in your own Club Coaching environment.
Pre-requisites for Certification Emergency 1st Aid Certificate, Safeguarding & Protecting Children, current DBS (CRB), aged 17 years at least to begin the course and 18 years at Assessment.
Performance Coaching Environment:
The ECBs Performance Coach Development Programme is part of ECB Elite Coach Development.
It consists of the Performance Coach Course (UKCC3) and a programme of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) resources available to the qualified UKCC3 coach.
Qualified coaches can access a specialist ‘Performance Coach Hub’ which provides articles, features, and information on coaching and player development as well as being the platform through which UKCC3 coaches can communicate with each other and ECB can make coaches aware of local, regional or national events.
Elite Coaching Environment:
The ECB’s Elite Coach Development Programme consists of the Master Coach Award (UKCC Level 4), which includes a Post Graduate (PG) Diploma in Personal and Professional Development, a range of Continuous Personal and Professional Development programmes and targeted individual support.
Paul’s thoughts:
I – Paul Griffiths – coach all ages from 5 to Adult, so my reasons for this page is to try an un-clutter some confusion if any, with the new thinking.
“The Sky Sports ECB Coach Education Programme is here to support your on-going development as a coach to help you Become the Best Coach You Can Be, so your players can be the best they can be.
Coaching Assistants (UKCC1) or teachers wishing to take their next course will be able to choose a course to suit them and their players each specifically designed for either coaching young people & adults, or children. A range of courses still exist to support Young People entering the pathway, teachers, and coaches working in schools. Courses for coaches working in the Performance and Elite environments (Levels 3 & 4) have not changed since the recent amendments in the winter of 2012.
Existing ECB coaches (all existing qualifications will continue to be recognised) will have many more opportunities to continue to engage or re-engage with coach education. Existing coaching roles with be examined in light of the new system, we will attribute minimum operating standards to coaching roles for coaches qualifying in the new structure.
Those coaches with existing ECB qualifications will be offered routes back into coach education by virtue of a combination of their coaching role, the qualification they hold and their coaching experience.
Existing Coaching Assistants and Level 1 Coaches will be prompted to take either the ECB Certificate in Coaching Children or the ECB Certificate in Coaching Young Players and Adults. Existing Level 2 coaches and beyond will be signposted to the appropriate coach education based on their current coaching role and experiences (accessing relevant Child or Young Person and Adult CPD, or a combination of both).” Please see Already a Coach
A Quote from Andy Flower – former ENGLAND Squad Director “As coaches we are constantly seeking to identify opportunities to help our players improve… and of course ourselves.”
A Quote from Mark Lane – Former ENGLAND Women Head Coach “Be Yourselves with Skill”
Further information:
www.ecb.co.uk/coacheducation
Already A Coach?
Become the Best Coach You Can Be
Surrey Cricket – Coach Education pages (inc. how to book details on all the above)
Frequently Asked Questions from Surrey Cricket
Paul Griffiths paul@cricketcoach.info / 07802 712702
> under review to quote ECB.Co.UK Coach Education pages (October 2013)
