Doug Lemov's field notes

Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice.

02.12.13 Annals of Coaching: Video 3.0

1.0 was coaches realizing they should tape their players during games. 2.0 was coaches realizing that it was actually more powerful to tape their players during pratice. 3.0 is coaches realizing they should tape themselves during practice. Check out this elite German Coaching Clinic for example.  Video-taping starts at 1:30 (it’s a reverse clock… must be a…


01.27.13 Annals of Coaching: A Lesson from my son’s coach

My son’s soccer coach (Khris Clemens) is organized, calm, clear, direct, knows the game etc. But his effectiveness to me is about practice most of all, and really about how he plans his practices. The best word I can think of to describe his approach is ‘cohesive.’  To me this is a big complement. It might…