Developing An Understanding Of Competition Formats &
Officiating Skills For Leading
Encourage your Sports Leaders to:
- Use static, adapted or disability games to officiate.
- Apply various competition structures (refer to your
Qualifications That Changes Lives CD-ROM Tutor Resource) to these
games and think about which ones work the best.
- Use a range of communication methods whilst officiating such as
whistles, hand signals or flash cards.
- Spend more time undertaking various officiating roles, for
example if they feel more comfortable time keeping then allow
them time to develop confidence before moving onto more interactive
roles such as refereeing.
- Undertake a meaningful role if they're not participating.
Some thoughts for the tutor:
There is a wealth of adapted and/or disability sports to select
from. For example, Boccia is a slower paced game and has a
non-verbal form of officiating.
If a learner is not confident in officiating alone, you could
give one rule that your leader feels confident to assist you with
officiating. As your leader's confidence increases, the amount of
rules can also be increased too.
View a video
clip discussing this idea.
Practical Ideas:
View a video clip that shows how the
dice game can be used with a competition format. An extension to
this is that Sports Leaders could undertake officiating based roles
to support this activity.
