Emotional development is an interesting because as I was reading chapter 7 the part where they talked about little emphasis is placed on the emotional factors that might promote or impede efficiency. ( pg.78 Book of Pysch) it got me questioning some things. To me I think that looking into all of this self efficacy and locus of control has some bit of background in emotional factors. If you look into why someone has low or high self efficacy I feel there could be a big connection on the factors and which one you are. I know as a student emotional factors can change my self efficacy in situation of my feelings of locus of control. As a coach or a teacher I think you see it as well. Sometimes I have a player who is on such a positive emotional factor that they perform better then I have ever seen them. Expecting that same performance when that factor is non existent sometime becomes the challenge...
Flow is characterised as the holistic sensation that people feel when they act with total involvement. The table about flow and human motives was also something that stuck with me. (chap7 Pintrich) Things like the open and closed system goals with intraindividual processes and interindividual processes seem to hit home. So many times you have this process that a player understands and another one is so lost on the way we have it flowing- but sometimes when you have them talk you through what their understanding is and their rationale you see why it doesn't flow to them. The other description of graphic I like related to flow was the action/ opportunities/ action capabilities chart. I would say most people would agree that there is that middle road of not too much stress ,but not too lax. A great example of this for me is when we are going through new offensive plays in lacrosse and we walk through them too slow. Players begin to lose focus, they forget where they are supposed to be going because they have had to much time to wander. When we try and run through it the first time people always hesitate to go because they are afraid they may be going the wrong way and then it does not work. When we go at a good speed, people stay on task, it is just challenging enough that they are paying attention as well as thinking of possible better ways. In this case they they ask questions about certain movements and may even suggest one that could work better. Now instead of them just learning a play they have been interacting and creatively seeing the bigger picture.
Interest is another topic that seems to have so many branches. Personal interest with things like the text, material, activity, etc can be different for everyone. It becomes ones of those questions of how best do you reach all of your students?
Social bonds also speaks to me when thinking about my coaching. The 4 stages of bonding by Newmann can be played through so many different scenarios. (chap.10 Pintrich)
1.) Clarity of purpose
2.) Fairness
3.) Personal support
4.) Successful Experiences
All four of these have branch off into so many other question and sub categories. Clarity of purpose can be hard for athletes at our level because so many of them will have the same reason, some of the same reasons, or completely other ones. As a recruit we are looking for the player that loves the game and wants to achieve as much as they can as an individual player to help the whole team goal to win. You want to create a bond with all the players that they have positive feelings on all four of these with their peers and coaches so that they are in the best environment to perform. It is great when we get some people on the same page or in the right mind set and have the bonds that we are looking for but a whole team, starters to bench players need to work as a whole to be successful.
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