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Old Mon Nov 08, 2004, 02:44pm
Green Green is offline
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Jumpmaster,

The mentor program is mainly for officials... new through three years but anyone is welcome. We are fortunate in that one of our officials (who heads the program) owns a small motivational company. He met (a couple of times in the off-season) with the mentors who had volunteered, asking us for ideas on how the program should be structured. After that, he met with us prior to the start of the season with (mentees in attendance) to outline what our role would be... which was (Mentee orientated) or meet their needs and concerns. Answering questions about rules and mechanics using e-mail, working scrimmages with, observing their games and sending articles like the following “Should You Throw?” http://www.nfhs.org/scriptcontent/va...content_id=503

With his company’s technology tools he held conference calls which had a tone of, work hard on and off the field, study the rules and mechanics, keep yourself in good physical and mental condition and the rewards and satisfaction of doing a good job. The conference call was not about questions on rules and mechanics which could be answered in other forums.

First Year Officials:
Our new official’s program meets with the general meeting to listen to general information for the first half hour or so and then they break away to their own meeting. They also have, on the field classes with and without players (JV or Freshmen) to learn mechanics etc. They’re also schooled, that when they’re working on the field, clinics, scrimmages and games to listen to the older officials’s advice but Don’t say (that’s not what we were told) but to filter the advise.

The same two officials have been running the program (one a teacher) to maintain its consistency. This way they’ve been able to continually improve the program as well.

Another veteran official also holds off-season classes for rules etc. for all officials who want to attend... attendance is not required.


[Edited by Green on Nov 8th, 2004 at 02:46 PM]
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