ISI - KIN 370 - Motor Learning/Motor Development

Course Description

Motor Learning/Motor Development provides the teacher, coach, or self-instructing athlete with a comprehensive understanding of the developmental (physical, psychological, and social) processes involved in the learning of sport skills. Explores useful training ideas for all types of performers (beginners-advanced, young-old, male-female) in all types of sports and wellness professionals.

In this course, you will study motor behavior and the conditions and factors that influence the learning of motor skills. Human movement is a complex phenomenon. For practitioners concerned with movement enhancement, that complexity presents a constant challenge. The key to meeting this challenge lies in understanding how people learn.

In general, the course will follow the textbook chapter by chapter. There will be at least one assignment for each chapter topic, including exploratory activities, exercises, and chapter review questions. You are encouraged to read the entire chapter before beginning the assignments. Depending on the topic, there may be websites to reference for additional information. When completing assignments, be sure to include the question prior to your answer.

Learner Outcomes

This course bridges research and practice by equipping students with tools to assess performance, design effective instruction, and optimize skill acquisition through rehabilitation and training experiences. By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate foundational knowledge of biomechanics and the organic, skeletal, and neuromuscular systems, analyzing how these structures adapt to movement, contribute to motor performance, and inform physical activity issues across historical, philosophical, sociological, and psychological perspectives.
• Identify critical elements of basic motor skills, develop appropriate skill sequences, and demonstrate competence in motor skills, rhythms, and physical activities including sport, games, lifelong leisure activities, and dance.
• Describe, apply, and employ disciplinary concepts, principles, and central debates to skillful movement, physical activity, and fitness, incorporating interdisciplinary learning experiences that integrate knowledge across subject areas.
• Design and implement safe, appropriate, realistic, and relevant learning experiences grounded in principles of effective instruction, using demonstrations, explanations, and instructional cues and prompts for basic motor skills, rhythms, and physical activity.
• Establish managerial and instructional routines that create smoothly functioning learning environments by organizing and managing resources — including time, space, equipment, activities, and teacher attention — to provide active and equitable learning experiences.
• Apply strategies to promote responsible personal and social behaviors, mutual respect, safety, cooperation, self-motivation, and behavior management, while supporting and encouraging learner expression through movement and participation in physical activity inside and outside of school.
• Use formal and informal assessment techniques to evaluate learner performance, provide feedback, and communicate learner progress.

Required Course Materials

Both the 4^th and the 3^rd edition of the textbook will work for the course.

•  Coker, Cheryl A., Motor Learning & Control for Practitioners. 4th Ed. 2018. ISBN-13: 978-1138737013. ISBN-10: 1138737011

OR;

•  Coker, Cheryl A., Motor Learning & Control for Practitioners. 3rd Ed. Scottsdale: Holcomb Hathaway, 2013. Print. ISBN: 9781934432846

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Expected Course Timeline

Most ISI courses are designed so that students can complete them within 3 months to 1 year. If you are attempting to complete a course more quickly than this, please contact ISI to explore your options.

Sponsor Institution

Credits earned for this course are included in a LC State transcript.

This is an INDEPENDENT STUDY IN IDAHO course

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