PALESTRA Training School
As part of lifelong learning, our college focuses on the professional training of coaches in sports specialisations.
The mission of the VŠTVS PALESTRA Coaching School is to create conditions for quality education of coaches and professionals in lifelong learning programmes in cooperation with sports associations and other organisations active in the field of sport.
Our courses help future trainers to gain top educationwhich combines theoretical knowledge with practical skills. Teaching is provided by experienced lecturers from practice and academiawhich guarantees the highest level of expertise and quality.
COACHING SCHOOL
The PALESTRA Coaching School (hereinafter referred to as PALESTRA Coaching School) is a new project that was launched in July 2020 with the opening of the first coaching course for "B" class coaches in the scope of a retraining course. This is the culmination of several years of preparation of the overall concept. The next step was the opening of the first run of the two-year course for "A" coaches in October 2020.
Basic thesis
PALESTRA is always a joint project of PALESTRA and a specific sports association. Without contractually confirmed cooperation with the sports federation, it is not possible to accept students into the study, the sports federation may also exercise the right to agree on a specific list of students before the start of the study. The basic concept of teaching at the PALESTRA Technical School is the connection between the academic environment and the needs of the sports federations:
- Joint responsibility over the content of the taught material and the implementation of final examinations
- Combination of internal and external lecturers, academics and practitioners = the aim is a compact lecturer corps of experts suitably supplemented by external lecturers from the Czech Republic and abroad
- Involvement of graduates of coaching studies in teaching in other courses
- Rapid response to new trends and their integration into teaching
- Foreign internships
An important point is the use of international cooperation. VŠTVS PALESTRA is a member of ICCE (International Council for Coaching Excellence), the teaching standards are based on ICCE's Standards for Higher Education Bachelor Coaching Degree Programmes (International Coaching Degree Standards).
We also consulted with the "Trainerakademie Köln des Deutschen Olympischen Sportbundes" and used the experience with training of coaches of cooperating associations and international organizations.
Lecturer's Choir
A team of internal and external academic staff of VŠTVS PALESTRA and experts from sports associations, suitably supplemented by external students from the Czech Republic and abroad, participate in teaching.
We are gradually introducing the lecturers at PALESTRA:
Mgr. Hana Bubníková
Mgr. Roman Čedík
Ing. Zdeněk Eška, MBA
RNDr. Petr Fořt, CSc.
Martin Koukal
MUDr. Jozef Martinča
Mgr. Barbora Pribylová
Prof. PaedDr. Rudolf Psotta, Ph.D.
Mgr. Filip Rata, DiS.
Mgr. Roman Šinkovský, Ph.D.
Mgr. et Mgr. Renata Větrovská, Ph.D.
Coaching Council
The Coaches' Council is the main advisory body, to which representatives of the PALESTRA VŠTVS and sports associations involved in the PALESTRA TC are nominated. The members of the Coaches' Council are also members of the Examination Committee.
List of partner associations
The list will be gradually updated after the contract is signed
- Association of Bodybuilding and Fitness of the Czech Republic, z.s.., trainer I. class
- Czech Volleyball Association, first class coach
- Czech Judo Association, z.s., first class coach
- Autoclub of the Czech Republic - I. and II. class trainer
