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Course Description

Like any other team activity, esports coaches need to understand how to build a team that can work together effectively and how to help their students improve. Whether you only know the basics of how esports work or you’re a gaming expert, this course will help you develop your coaching skills so you can bring your team together and help them reach their potential.

Is This Course For You?

This course was designed for educators, coaches, community leaders, and esports enthusiasts with at least a high school reading and writing level and an interest in esports. You don’t need to be a gamer to take this course – all you need is an open mind to understand the benefits of esports for engaging youth, fostering competitive gameplay, and applying learned skills to the workforce. Whether you work in the education industry, for a community organization, or are just an esports enthusiast interested in learning how to become an esports coach, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to start coaching an esports team.

What You’ll Learn

This course focuses on the essential skills and knowledge required to become a successful coach with an emphasis on coaching best practices and transferable coaching and leadership skills in the context of esports. You’ll learn about coaching techniques, communication, and player development relative to the different genres of esports. In addition, you’ll be introduced to various strategies for building a cohesive and healthy team, including the art of winning and losing, sportsmanship, healthy gaming practices, and attention to diversity and inclusion. As part of this course, you will have the opportunity to role-play coaching scenarios, develop your own coaching plan, and apply your skills in a simulated esports environment.

How You’ll Learn

This twelve week course is fully online with synchronous sessions that include lectures, hands-on labs, project based learning, and more. Throughout the course, you’ll be developing an effective esports coaching style with exercises including role-playing coaching scenarios to practice communication and feedback, develop a personal coaching philosophy and strategies for building team culture, creating a coaching plan for an esports team, and more. You will also conduct a coaching session for a real or simulated esports team so you can put all of the skills and knowledge you learn throughout the course into practice.

Skills You Walk Away With

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the role and responsibilities of being an esports coach.
  • Use effective communication and leadership skills for esports coaching.
  • Develop strategies for effective team play, including teamwork essentials, team building, and player well-being.
  • Describe and teach the art of winning and losing, including core components of sportsmanship, healthy gaming practices, and embracing the mentality of winning.
  • Incorporate best practices for inclusion and diversity into coaching approaches and team building strategies.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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