Fundamental Movement Skills

The goal of the NCCP Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) workshop is to expose participants to a process that will teach and improve fundamental movement skills in children. The Workshop consists of 12 units, each focusing on a specific aspect of teaching movement skills or on a specific movement skill. The units give participants opportunities to assess and improve their teaching of fundamental movement skills as well as leadership skills such as activity delivery and effective communication. Fundamental Movement Skills are integral in child development as they are the basis of movements across a full range of sports and leisure activities they will be involved with in their lifetime.

Workshop Content

Based upon the fundamental stages of the Canadian Sport for Life model of long-term athlete development, this workshop explores core National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) themes such as fair play, safety, responsibility, and communication with an innovative skill development process. Participants are given the opportunity to practice strategies to improve fundamental movement skills such as throwing, running,balance, kicking and striking, catching and absorbing force, ability, and  hopping, skipping and jumping. Each unit covers the following as related to the specific fundamental movement skill:

• NCCP Core Competencies: Problem-Solving, Valuing, Critical Thinking, Leading, Interacting
• Six Step Teaching Mode: Identify, Analyze, Generate, Plan, Implement, and Assess.
• Four Phases of Movement: Preparation, Force Production, Critical Instant, Follow-through/Recovery
• Stages of Skill Maturity: Emerging, Early-Developers, Late-Developers, Mature
• Methods for safe and effective Observation, Communication, and Feedback

Target Participants

Participants walk away with a National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) coaching certification number and a trained status in Fundamental Movement Skills and can use this training to gain further work experience in any field where they are working with young children. The coaching certification number is a number that each participant will have for any more coaching courses they might take down the road as it is associated with the NCCP Database for coaches.

High School Leadership Workshop

The high school leadership workshop consists of 12 units, with each unit being approximately 45 minutes long and allows for easy adaption into a secondary school curriculum. The units give students many opportunities to assess and improve their teaching of fundamental movement skills as well as leadership skills including activity delivery and effective communication. Target:

• High School Seniors (Grade 11/12) taking high school leadership or senior high school phys-ed classes
• Fundamental Movement Skills - HS  [312KB]

Community Leader Workshop

The community workshop is designed to deliver the 12 units in a one-day workshop format. Each unit focuses on a specific aspect of teaching movement skills or focuses on a specific movement skill and allow participants many opportunities to asses and improve their teaching of fundamental movement skills. Target:

• Municipally-based recreation professionals working with young children
• Daycare professionals and Sport camps leaders
• Other community-based leaders operating programs for young children
• Fundamental Movement Skills - Community  [318KB]