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ITF/OS Regional Tutor’s Course South Africa The South African Tennis Association hosted an ITF/OS Regional tutor´s course at the ITF High Performance Centre in Pretoria, South Africa on September 23rd. In attendance were 26 tutors from 8 different countries from the Southern African region.

The course was conducted by Miguel Crespo, ITF Development Research Officer, and Karl Davies, ITF Development Officer for the Southern African region. This course is designed to assist tutors improve the quality of coaches education programmes in their countries. Among other things, the course outlined the main goals and characteristics of the ITF courses including syllabi, contents, schedules, assessment criteria, presentation methods, available resources, e-learning procedures, web based training and education, and new teaching methodologies related to competency based training applied to tennis coaches education.

The course was a great success and participants commented that they believe the course will really help tutors improve the quality of their courses in order to make the countries self-sufficient in coaches education. Karl Davies, who has a great amount of experience in this area, said: “The main focus for the moment is to educate already influential coaches in the region, so that they are able to conduct national coaches education courses in their respective countries, because at this point in time we feel the best way to increase the number of qualified coaches is through tutor training and development”.

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