Module: Planning Skills for Sport Professionals

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Planning Skills for Sport Professionals
Module Code	SS502 (ITS) / SPO1046 (Banner)
Faculty	Science & Health	School	Health & Human Performance
Module Co-ordinator	Robin Taylor
Module Teachers	-
NFQ level	9	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

Coursework Only

Description

Engaging in continuing professional development is a prerequisite for career success. In this Module students will be introduced to professional development planning skills and their application in sport performance domains. Students will prepare a professional portfolio that details and reflects on their current role working in the sport domain, and a consideration of their professional aspirations and contexts. Students will learn about and implement a range of standard and specialised planning techniques as part of this process. The importance of ethical behaviour, professional integrity, and workplace behaviours as well as the role and value of networking, career planning and development will be explored. This is a pass/fail module

Learning Outcomes

1. Critique their own personal and academic professional development practice in the context of their professional domain, and its standards
2. Identify and critically reflect on possible future needs in the context of their career and wider performance domain.
3. Develop a Professional Development Plan (PDP), communicate this plan in a clear and concise scholarly manner through means of a written document, and critically reflect upon the processes and potential outcomes of their PDP

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Independent Study	65	Independent pursuit of relevant issues and ideas raised during the module. Participants will be expected to engage in reading and critical review of literature relevant to the module
Online activity	15	Students will engage with online material via Loop including but not limited to webinars, online tasks, quizzes, and tutorials
Assignment Completion	30	Completion of assessment
Directed learning	15	Stimulus presentations and discussion will be used to tease out possible contributing topics and test the student’s current levels of knowledge and experience with them.As their reading progresses, students may be directed towards relevant recent investigations in their own and parallel domains.
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Professional Development: Interrogating your domain
Through the development of critical thinking skills, students will interrogate their performance domain and consider the steps needed to future proof their skillset within their professional context and academic study.

Future proofing your development
Students will be introduced to professional development planning skills and the application in their performance domain. Students will develop a Professional Development Plan (PDP) and critically reflect upon the processes and potential outcomes of their plan, whilst also identifying possible future needs in the context of their career and wider performance domain.

Professional Development Needs and Assessment
Students will be provided with opportunities to better understand their personal performance and self-management, develop effective career plans and appreciate the role played by self and other appraisal and continuous professional development in their domain. Students will consider topics such as self-assessment, team work skills, leadership, networking and career development learning. As such, students will appreciate and implement planning and reflection tools to support effective career development.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Professional Portfolio	Students will develop a Professional Development Plan (PDP) by identifying and critically appraising their own professional development needs in the context of their current professional practice, their domain and their programme of study. In the PDP, students should critically reflect upon the processes and potential outcomes of this plan, whilst also identifying possible future needs in the context of their career. The PDP will be between 4000 - 8000 words including appendices and supporting documents	100%	n/a
Assignment	As part of this module, students will consider their academic pathway on the MSc in Elite Sport Performance. As assessment map will be developed, and subsequently evaluated, to ensure a range of appropriate assessments are undertaken as part of the taught element of the MSc.	0%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Other Resources

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