In today's world of sport and academia, personal accountability is a trait that has been lost along the way, and in my opinion starts in the home. Accountability is being responsible towards someone or something. Parents allow their children to get away with so much at an early age, and it carries on throughout the child's life. It becomes extremely difficult for an educator to hold their student or athlete to be personal accountable for their education or basketball career if it is not reinforced in the home.
Even though some parents don't hold their children accountable, successful educators can teach their student-athletes accountability through discipline and hard work. In my opinion, the best educators inspire their student-athletes to strive for excellence in their lives far beyond the court or the classroom. They teach life skills. Whether they admit it or not, a high majority of student-athletes thirst for discipline. It is our responsibility as educators to inspire our students to be the best they can possibly be; not every student-athlete can be a super-star, but in their own way can be a game changer.
In order for our student-athletes to be accountable for their actions, we need to be accountable for ourselves. We need to make sure we are improving our knowledge, our skill set, and our ability to communicate clearly to our students so they can comprehend our expectations. If things are not going accordingly to our plan, we need to look in the mirror, and see how can we do things better. Do our players fail to execute the simple fundamentals? Do our players understand your mission? Do our players not play hard/compete? If these things are happening, we need to look at ourselves and become better educators. We need to get better before our student-athletes can.
Even though some parents don't hold their children accountable, successful educators can teach their student-athletes accountability through discipline and hard work. In my opinion, the best educators inspire their student-athletes to strive for excellence in their lives far beyond the court or the classroom. They teach life skills. Whether they admit it or not, a high majority of student-athletes thirst for discipline. It is our responsibility as educators to inspire our students to be the best they can possibly be; not every student-athlete can be a super-star, but in their own way can be a game changer.
In order for our student-athletes to be accountable for their actions, we need to be accountable for ourselves. We need to make sure we are improving our knowledge, our skill set, and our ability to communicate clearly to our students so they can comprehend our expectations. If things are not going accordingly to our plan, we need to look in the mirror, and see how can we do things better. Do our players fail to execute the simple fundamentals? Do our players understand your mission? Do our players not play hard/compete? If these things are happening, we need to look at ourselves and become better educators. We need to get better before our student-athletes can.
