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I've been contacted to give a lecture at one of the local universities. The subject is officiating, to a 26-student class. The class is a class of students who are athletic - so presumably they have a bit of an idea of what's going on.
I do know some of what and how I'm going to approach this 60-minute lecture, but I wanted to solicite some opinions here. In an effort to not skew your original ideas, I won't mention my own "mini-cirriculum" that I've thought of so far. So, if you have any ideas, etc.... please share them with me! Thank you.
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Thu Feb 23, 2006, 10:16am
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Officiating in general. I will likely do some focusing on basketball and football, which I consider to be the two most popular North American sports.
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Thu Feb 23, 2006, 10:59am
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Talk about the fact that it is a tough job that is not for everyone. Officials take a lot of scrutiny from coaches and fans; however, we (as officials) can't take it personal. We many see the very same coach we T'ed up last night in the supermarket today and he may be a nice guy. You also can't let last nights game affect the game tonight even if the coach got T'ed last night. So to catagorize: 1)Rigors of Officiating 2)Professionalism that must be maintained
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Thu Feb 23, 2006, 11:09am
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At some point, discuss with the class the things that separate great officials from good officials...maybe do it by asking them what they think the qualities are, and then steer the discussion towards the things that count - communication skills, integrity, professionalism - whatever list you want to put together...could be an interesting discussion, and would be better than straight lecture format.
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