Guidance and Feedback Types
A good coach knows when to show, when to tell, and when to give the news. Sort the four types of guidance and learn how Edexcel groups feedback, including the difference between feedback given during and after a performance.
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Show, tell, or support
When you learn a new skill, a coach helps you in different ways and gives you information about how it went. Those two ideas are guidance and feedback. This module sorts out the types of each.
Guidance and feedback words
Four terms run through this module:
When feedback arrives
Edexcel groups feedback by its timing, as well as by whether it is intrinsic or extrinsic.
A helping hand
A coach physically supports a gymnast through a move. Which type of guidance is this?
- Manual guidance
- Visual guidance
- Verbal guidance
- Mechanical guidance
Match each type of guidance to an example
- Visual guidance
- Verbal guidance
- Manual guidance
- Mechanical guidance
- Showing a demonstration or a video
- Telling the performer what to do
- Physically supporting or moving the body
- Using equipment such as a float or harness
Grouping feedback
Feedback is grouped two ways. First, by source: intrinsic (from your own feel) or extrinsic (from a coach or crowd). Second, by timing: concurrent (during) or terminal (after). Beginners rely more on extrinsic and terminal feedback; experts use more intrinsic and concurrent feedback.
Two ways to group it
Select the TWO ways feedback is grouped on this course.
- By whether it is intrinsic or extrinsic
- By its timing, concurrent or terminal
- By the weather during play
- By the size of the crowd
Match each type of feedback to its meaning
- Intrinsic
- Extrinsic
- Concurrent
- Terminal
- Comes from the performer's own feel
- Comes from a coach or the crowd
- Given during the performance
- Given after the performance
A coaching session in order
Put a simple coaching session into order.
- The coach shows a visual demonstration of the skill
- The performer tries the skill for themselves
- The coach gives concurrent feedback during the attempt
- Afterwards, terminal feedback reviews how it went
In the moment
Feedback given DURING a performance is called what?
- Concurrent feedback
- Terminal feedback
- Intrinsic feedback
- Verbal guidance
Guidance and feedback in words
Guidance helps a performer learn a skill. Showing a demonstration is _____ guidance, while telling them what to do is _____ guidance. Feedback is information about a performance. When it comes from the performer's own senses it is _____, and when it comes from a coach it is _____. Feedback given after the performance is called _____ feedback.
Guidance and feedback
Tap the TWO statements that are TRUE.
- Manual guidance means physically supporting or moving the performer's body.
- Concurrent feedback is given during the performance.
- Terminal feedback is given during the performance.
- Intrinsic feedback comes from a coach or the crowd.
- Verbal guidance means showing a demonstration.
Name the type
Work out which type of guidance or feedback each moment shows.
- A swimming coach gives a beginner a float to help them stay up. Which type of guidance is this?
- During a race, the coach shouts advice to the runner as they go past. Which feedback is this?
- After the game, the team watches a video of their performance to review it. Which feedback is this?
Coach it
Explain two types of guidance a coach could use, and explain the difference between concurrent and terminal feedback.
- Describe one type of guidance with an example
- Describe a second type of guidance with an example
- Explain what concurrent feedback is
- Explain what terminal feedback is and how it differs