help with first year partner

[TheOracle]

You have to let him live and die with it. That how new officials learn. We all did it. You did the best thing you could have done, teach him what he did wrong at halftime. If you are effective, he'll never make that specific mistake again. If he doesn't learn from it, he won't last too long.

You can make calls for him during a game, but you cannot prevent him from making mistakes where he blows the whistle. That is the best thing for new officials to learn. You can recover from no-calls pretty easily, because they tend to be forgotten quicker as play goes on, or your partners can help. Bad whistles put you on the island where your partners only have so many chances to rescue you. Sometimes they simply cannot.