Coaching Education and Development

One of the components of RCA's coaching education and development is the National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) which is delivered in partnership with RCA, Provincial Rowing Associations, the Coaching Association of Canada and the Provincial/Territorial Coaching Associations.
RCA aims to increase the number of rowing coaches in Canada, supporting their development as coaches - increasing their technical knowledge, skills and abilities, using the NCCP and other opportunities for coach development. While some learning will take place in a workshop setting, other valuable learning will take place working with other rowing coaches, sport scientists and/or coaches from other sports. Rowing Canada Aviron offers an annual coaches conference that provides NCCP workshops as well as other workshops that will help coaches in their development.

National Calendar of Coach Education Workshops

• November 25 - 27, 2011 Calgary AB. RCA Coach Weekend #2 (RCA Coach) Presenter/facilitator: Chris Davidson Contact: Rosanne Prinson Alberta Rowing Association   email: office@albertarowing.ca
• December 10 - 11, 2011 Niagara Region ON RCA Coach Weekend #2 (RCA Coach) Facilitator: Siobahn McLaughlin. Contact: Ashley Lethbridge email: admin@rowontario.ca 416-426-7002
• December 10 - 11 RCA Coach Weekend #2 Delta BC. Facilitator: John Wetzstein Contact: Eron Main exdirector@rowingbc.ca http://www.rowingbc.ca/node/405
• January 26 - 28, 2012 Toronto, ON. RCA National Conference (Multiple sessions) Contact: Brenda Perreaux  Register online: www.rowingcanada.org/coaching/conference
  
• March 31 & April 1, 2011 London, ON. Developing Athletic Abilities for Rowing (RCA Performance Coach). Presenters: Ed McNeely/Dan Bechard. Contact: Ashley Lethbridge  416-426-7002

National Coaching Certification Program

About the NCCP
The National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) is a coach training and certification program for 67 different sports and is offered in both official languages across Canada. NCCP workshops are designed to meet the needs of all types of coaches, from the first‐time coach to the head coach of a national team. The NCCP is the recognized national standard for coach training and certification in Canada. As part of the program, all coaches are trained in ethical decision‐making and sport safety.
The National Coaching Certification Program was established in 1974 and is a collaborative program of the Government of Canada, provincial/territorial governments, national, provincial, territorial sport organizations, and the Coaching Association of Canada. Each year, more than 50,000 coaches take an NCCP workshop and since it began, more than 1 million coaches have participated in the program, making it one of Canada's largest adult education programs.

NCCP
The emphasis of the NCCP is on developing competent coaches - an exciting step towards helping them to become more effective and have a more meaningful impact on an athlete's experience. For more information about the NCCP see the CAC site. Click here for RCA's Coach Development Model

All National Sport Organizations have been transitioning their coach education programs to a competency-based system as part of the NCCP. The website has information about RCA's progress in this transition as well as information about phasing out of the "old NCCP" system.

Below is the pathway that shows what a coach needs to do in order to be "trained", "evaluated" and "certified" for the RCA Coach qualification. This training provides the coach with what is needed to coach novice rowers in their first year or so of training for regattas.

The RCA certification contexts and related NCCP names are: