Jamie Taylor
@Jattaylor
Coach, Coach Developer and Coaching Researcher | Assistant Professor @DCUperformance
🚨New paper🚨 Performance safety: conceptualising psychological safety when errors have consequences @LiamSweeneyEP and Thomas Gretton Open access below: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
"True learning happens through awareness, not effort." Sorry, but this is nonsense. 5 year olds don't learn to read by being 'aware' of letter/sound correspondences. They have to work damn hard at it and this is the message we should be sending to kids: a lot of things in life…
True learning happens through awareness, not effort. When you observe without judgment, your body and mind adjust naturally. No criticism. No mental coaching. Just clarity.
“According to Dewey, progressive educators, like Kilpatrick, confused ends and means. They failed to recognize that thinking was not achieved through the exercise of freedom but, conversely, that freedom was achieved through the exercise of thinking. The guidance given by the…
Reading a fascinating new article on the origins of Project‑Based Learning and how Kilpatrick was really a clever opportunist. Even Dewey thought he was wrong. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Nice example of a coach/team thinking pedagogically telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/20…
Yes. But a bit of a strawman, as well. If we learn nothing from lectures, then how are we learning anything from YouTube, which is nearly 100% passive (except for replay, stop, etc). Lots of means to actively integrate content, and all should be available and encouraged. The…
Double-Barreled Pre-Mortems Gary Klein …sychologytoday-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.psycho…
A great paper which adds needed nuance and context! I fully subscribe to the idea the PS exists on a continuum and love the idea of ‘higher and lower’ as opposed to the binary choice of safe or unsafe. 👏
A Crowdfunder Page for former Tigers player Taylor Gough has been set up to help him raise funds for a customised canoe, to help achieve his target of competing at the Paralympics in 2028. If you are able, please donate 👇 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylor-gough…
A week spent at @CRiC_SCR sharing ongoing @DcuPerformance research with the IRFU, The Premier League and the GAA Alex Burns, Dave Moran, Michael Ashford, @Rdtaylor_16
Just realized that the text of my second inaugural lecture (at the Institute of Education, 2007)—Assessment for Learning: Why, what and how—is no longer being sold by UCL Press, so the copyright reverts to me, and I can make it open access, so here it is: bit.ly/AfLWWH.
Thank you to @gaaleinster for the invite to discuss evidence informed coach development and developments in practice
Today we welcomed Coach Developers from all over Leinster to DCU for a Community of Practice / Networking event. This was a wonderful day of shared learning which was led by three fantastic speakers looking at several important topics in Coach Development such as; 🗣Mentoring…
Elite Soccer Player Psychological Profiling (Benetti et al,2025) • Response letter (below) Cautions over Research Claims & Implications for TID Researchers & Practitioners • rigour needed using Multifactorial, Longitudinal, Intervention & Control designs • Better Coaching
“Low prior knowledge learners learn better from high-assistance instruction…High prior knowledge learners learn better from low-assistance instruction… The expertise reversal effect is not symmetrical: providing novices with assistance has a stronger effect than withholding…
