Transcript State Referee Committee Presentation

The roles of Instructor, Referee,
Assignor and Assessor
A Model for the holistic
process of referee
development
For the Good of the Game
Admin/SRC
For the Good of the Game
Goal
- Show how roles are integrated
- Show how feedback mechanism should work
- Show how relationships are symbiotic
For the Good of the Game
For the Good of the Game
Instructor
State Director of Instruction (SDI)
Paul Mungra
North
Area Director
Jack Deplitch
Instructors
47
South
Area Director
Cookie Ketchum
Instructors
15
Central
Area Director
Jake Milne
West
Area Director
Chuck Wright
Instructors
19
Instructors
7
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Instructor
Role of the Instructor
• Provides area referees with new rule modifications and recerts, etc.
- Makes themselves available for clinics consistent with local
area needs
- Focus instruction based on USSF emphasis; local feedback from
assessors, Area Directors of Instruction and Assessment
- Instruction focuses on grassroots application
- Why focus on elbows to the head when 98% of your
referees are doing U8 games – Shut down the
Hypothetical artist
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Referee
State Referee Administrator (SRA)
George Vergara
North
Referees
1,959
South
Referees
601
Central
Referees
551
** Note 679 referees did not know what area they are in
West
Referees
195
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Referee
Role of the Referee
• Provide service to teams applying knowledge of rules to games
- Trains – is physically fit and studies current USSF memoranda
- Makes themselves available
- Meets recert or upgrade requirements; schedules
assessments goes to clinics, etc.
- Action plan with Assessors and Assignors about objectives;
follow up
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Assignor
Referee Assignor Liaison
Mark Turner
North
Assignors
39
South
Assignors
23
Central
Assignors
12
West
Assignors
3
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Assignor
Role of the Assignor
• Develops referees
- Assigns appropriate referees to matches
- Applies assessor feedback to develop individual referee
- Based on area needs schedules recerts; upgrade clinics with
area Instructors
- Encourages growth in officials; sometimes by letting go?
For the Good of the Game
Assessor
State Director of Assessment (SDA)
Don Torrenti
North
Area Director
Chuck Watts
South
Area Director
Jeff Kelley
Central
Area Director
Frank Carroll
West
Area Director
Mike Renner
Assessors
20
Assessors
11
Assessors
14
Assessors
2
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Assessor
Role of the Assessor
• Evaluates performance of referee with current guidelines etc.
- Keeps up to date with current USSF memoranda
- Provides feedback to referees, assignors, and area instructors
- Follow up with referee about action plan
- Identifies rising stars to Assignors, SRA, LAC etc…
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Admin/SRC
Goal of the SRC
• Develop a feedback mechanism for every Instructor, Referee,
Assignor, and Assessor
• Referee – Feedback into system
- Volunteers to come up with Pilot Program; Funding from SRC
- Referee needs 3 good things and 3 areas for improvement
For the Good of the Game
Recap
• Feedback
mechanisms for everyone in the system
• In
order to be successful there must be constant
communication
• We
are all need each other in order to be sucessful
For the Good of the Game
I am a slow walker but I never walk backwards
A. Lincoln
For the Good of the Game
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