This interview is offered in each Chinese language and English (beneath).
特奥东亚区教练彭绍健详细介绍了他在中国特殊教育学校担任教练的经历，并分享了如何通过成为一名更好的教练，让他能够更好地帮助他所教练的运动员和学生。
Coach Pen Shaojin – 中国广州市越秀区启智学校 彭少健
1. 你为什么决定成为一名教练/特教老师？
我喜欢这些孩子们，也热爱这份教师的职业。
2. 你为什么要成为一名特教老师/执教你所从事的运动？你喜欢这项工作/运动的什么？
我自小就喜欢运动，特别是踢足球时，特别开心与享受。
这份工作，能帮助这些孩子们成长，使我感到十分有意义。
3. 您每周指导您的学生/团队/运动员多少次？
1-2次，每次90分钟，分别是周六上午9：00 – 10：30及周三下午14：30 – 16：00
4. 为什么体育对你和你执教的运动员很重要？
首先体育或运动，就能够产生多巴胺，使人感到快乐，其次执教运动员，能帮助他们成长，同时让我感受到很大的成就感，及让我很开心。
5. 做为一名教练，在特奥的活动中，你对自己有什么了解？
首先自己必须是真心真意很诚恳的接纳与包容每一位运动员学生的特点，其次要掌握与不断学习教学技巧、提升特奥运动的专业知识，最后要让自己与他们融入在一个团体之中，在快乐的基础上共同成长。
6. 您能否举例说明您的学生/运动员的社交和情绪健康（自信、社会包容、压力管理）如何因您的训练而得到改善？
学生在训练时不能仅是提升运动技能，更应该提升他们自信与社交沟通能力，例如：刚来的学生会比较害羞或胆小，我会安排队长多带着他一起训练促进交流，另外在训练中，会多组织一些有趣的活动来相互认识，破冰。还有包括在训练时或比赛时，出现失误大家都相互击掌、拍拍肩膀相互鼓励。
7. 你是如何在运动场外支持你的学生/队员融入和促进社会包容的？
在训练休息时或准备前期，见面我都会咨询或了解他们最近的现状，当遇到困难时，会给予一些建议与鼓励。如有更特别的事情，我也会主动跟他父母做好一些沟通。每次训练完后，都会安排一些时间，让大家相互分享最近的一些趣事，以及最近过得如何，通过大家相互信任与沟通，提升融入社会包容，解决社会或工作的困难。
8. 请描述你是如何支持你的学生/运动员在训练内外遵循健康和积极的生活方式的?
有必要时，我们会根据学生训练时的状态，了解到他是否处于遵循健康和积极的生活，如果发现比较槽糕，会尝试停止他的训练计划，并让他了解到遵循健康和积极的生活的重要性。另外有必要时，也会尝试听听他的解释以及咨询了解他的照顾者，他最近状况是否生病。
9. 在你的执教生涯中，你的执教理念发生了怎样的变化？或者从你开始参与特奥活动以来？
我从2008年8月大学毕业后，开始参与特奥运动的执教，早期对于特奥的信念理解不够深入，仅仅关注队伍是否能取得成绩（冠军、金牌）。但在2010年8月份开始，在执教第三年开始觉得，学生们在社交沟通、自信、建立友谊、自我解决困难能力等方面比较成绩而言，更为重要。因为冠军或许只有一个，但生活、成长、挑战或许每天都要面对或发生，结合深入理解特奥运动的信念后，所以让我对于特奥的理解有很多的转变，也十分荣幸有很多学习机会使我及学生得到更多的进步。谢谢
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Particular Olympics Asia Pacific coach, Peng Shaojian, particulars his expertise of being a coach at a particular training faculty in China, sharing how by turning into a greater coach himself, he may be higher geared up to assist the athletes and college students he coaches.
Coach Peng Shaojian – Yuexiu Particular Training College in Guangzhou, China
1. Why did you resolve you wished to be a coach?
I really like these youngsters and I really like instructing.
2. Why do you coach the game that you just do? What do you want about this sport?
I’ve been eager on sports activities since childhood, particularly enjoying soccer, which makes me really feel comfortable. This job, serving to these youngsters develop up, makes me really feel very significant.
3. What number of occasions per week do you coach your crew/athlete?
Twice every week, about 90 minutes every time. 9:00 – 10:30 Saturday morning and 14:30 – 16:00 Wednesday afternoon.
4. Why is sport essential to you and the athletes you coach?
Firstly, sports activities can produce dopamine and make individuals really feel comfortable. Secondly, teaching athletes may help them develop, and on the similar time, I really feel an incredible sense of accomplishment, and this makes me very comfortable.
5. What have you ever discovered about your self as a coach, working in Particular Olympics?
First, we should sincerely settle for and tolerate the traits of every athlete/scholar. Secondly, we should grasp and proceed to study instructing expertise, enhance the skilled data of Particular Olympic sports activities, and eventually combine them and Unified companions, in addition to ourselves into a bunch, and develop collectively on the idea of happiness.
6. Are you able to give an instance of how your athletes have improved their capacity to work with others/teamwork, at residence coaching habits, management expertise, and so on. and the way you could have inspired them to be accountable for their very own performances and coaching?
Through the coaching, college students mustn’t solely enhance their sports activities expertise, but additionally enhance their self-confidence and social communication expertise. For instance, if the newly arrived college students are shy or timid, I’ll prepare for the captain to take them to coach collectively extra typically to advertise communication. As well as, throughout the coaching, I’ll arrange extra fascinating actions to get all contributors to know one another and break the ice. As well as, throughout coaching or throughout video games, irrespective of successful or dropping, everybody offers one another excessive fives, pat on the shoulder and encouragement.
7. Describe how you could have supported your athletes to observe a wholesome and energetic way of life in or outdoors of follow?
Throughout coaching breaks or preparation, I might seek the advice of or study their latest standing once I met them and provides some recommendation and encouragement once they encountered difficulties. If mandatory, I’ll take the initiative to speak along with his dad and mom. After every coaching, we are going to prepare a while for everybody to share some fascinating issues and the way they’re doing lately. By way of mutual belief and communication, we will improve social inclusion and clear up social or work difficulties.
8. Describe how you could have supported your athletes to observe a wholesome and energetic way of life in or outdoors of follow?
If mandatory, we are going to discover out whether or not the scholar is following a wholesome and energetic life primarily based on the state of coaching. If it isn’t good, we are going to attempt to cease his coaching program and let him perceive the significance of following a wholesome and energetic life. As well as, if mandatory, we are going to attempt to take heed to his assertion and seek the advice of his caregivers to seek out out his well being state.
9. How has your teaching philosophy modified over your teaching profession? Or because you began teaching in Particular Olympics?
After I graduated from college in August 2008, I started to take part within the teaching of Particular Olympics. Within the early days, I didn’t have a deep understanding of the core idea in Particular Olympics, and solely centered on whether or not the crew may obtain good outcomes (championship, gold medal). Nonetheless, beginning in August 2010, within the third yr of instructing, I started to really feel that college students’ social communication, self-confidence, friendship constructing, and self-solving capacity had been extra essential than outcomes. As a result of they might grow to be the champion for as soon as, however life, development, and challenges compose their every day life. Mixed with the deep understanding of the Particular Olympics motion, my understanding of Particular Olympics actions and training has modified lots, and I’m grateful for having many studying alternatives to assist my college students develop.