Junior Athlete Education
Hundreds of thousands of young people dream of sporting glory, tens of thousands start out on the journey but only few have the privilege of realising their dreams. Schools and teachers play an instrumental role in recognising, guiding supporting and inspiring this talent along this pathway, whatever the destination.
The Junior Athlete Education (JAE) Framework is designed to guide and help schools provide comprehensive personal development support for young talented performers within their school. It supports the holistic talent development of these talented performers by focusing on developing the 5 abilities and how these vary with the age of the young people. The 5 abilities are; physical, thinking, social, personal and creative.
The Junior Athlete Education (JAE) Framework is designed to guide and help schools provide comprehensive personal development support for young talented performers within their school. It supports the holistic talent development of these talented performers by focusing on developing the 5 abilities and how these vary with the age of the young people. The 5 abilities are; physical, thinking, social, personal and creative.
The JAE Framework aims to:
- Provide a package of tools and resources to help schools provide talent development support for their ‘talented in sport’ pupils.
- Ensure that schools are able to embed the support into their whole school G&T programme.
- Provide a holistic 5 ability based model which is meaningful to both the PE national curriculum and world class performance sport.
The JAE Framework is based on four pillars. These cover how schools can recognise, guide, support and inspire talented young sportsmen and women:
JAE Pillar 1: recognising talent: Select the right young people onto the schools talent support programme.
JAE Pillar 2: guiding talent: Guide young performers through the critical years of physical and mental development, and on to the correct pathway that allows them to realise their sporting potential as adults.
JAE Pillar 3: supporting talent Empower the school’s young talented performers with the skills and support them to balance the conflicting challenges of their sport, studies and personal lives.
JAE Pillar 4: inspiring talent Inspire the school’s current and future young performers to achieve their potential and to develop into role models, within the school and the wider community.
JAE Pillar 1: recognising talent: Select the right young people onto the schools talent support programme.
JAE Pillar 2: guiding talent: Guide young performers through the critical years of physical and mental development, and on to the correct pathway that allows them to realise their sporting potential as adults.
JAE Pillar 3: supporting talent Empower the school’s young talented performers with the skills and support them to balance the conflicting challenges of their sport, studies and personal lives.
JAE Pillar 4: inspiring talent Inspire the school’s current and future young performers to achieve their potential and to develop into role models, within the school and the wider community.
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