Working with sport towards a long term skills development strategy for the sports industry

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Working with sport towards a long term skills
development strategy for the sports industry
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Introductions
Tony McKenna Sport and Community
Recreation Manager Graham Witts Sport Liaison,
Wellington Liz Horner Sport Liaison,
Auckland You? Why are you here?
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Why are we presenting?

• Let you know where Sfrito are currently at
• To get your feedback on Sfrito and its
  qualifications
• To get a picture of where you think sport is or
  should be heading in
• What do you expect from Sfrito
• Give you an indication of what our next steps are

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Who is Sfrito?

• The National Standard Setting Body for Sport
• Working on behalf of the Sports Industry
• Our Mandate
• Set National standards for industry (in the
  form of units and qualifications)
• Monitor the quality of the unit standard
  assessment
• Facilitate workplace based training
• New - Future Proofing/ Skill forecasting
• What does this mean in practice?

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Employment in the Sport Sector
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Who are the Sport team working with?
New Zealand Secondary Schools Sports
Council Secondary School Coordinators
Professional Development System New Zealand
Cricket Level 1 Coaching Table Tennis
New Zealand School Teachers Certificate SPA
RC Coaching/Officiating/Disability
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How we work with SPARC
National Coach Development Framework Sfrito on
original working party to develop
Coach Development framework Sfrito committed to
develop training resources based on general
principles modules under development by SPARC.
This includes developing unit standards in
consultation with industry to underpin
them SPARC Its about coaches developing on
the job Lynn Kidman, ICHPER- SD Conference
October 2006 Sfrito is On the Job training
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How we work with SPARC
No Exceptions Strategy Alongside the Coach
Development Framework, SPARC are also developing
coaching strategies around disability sport. The
No Exceptions' Strategy and Implementation Plan
for 2005-2009 sets out a number of strategies to
meet their goal of giving all people access to a
range of physical recreation and sport
opportunities of their own choice in environments
that enable full participation. Sfrito will play
a key role in meeting the strategy of up-skilling
staff and volunteers who provide physical
recreation and sport services by building
disability information into existing training
(i.e. coach education,Official development,
volunteer development)
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How we work with SPARC
National Officials Development Framework Sfrito
working with SPARC to provide framework to meet
the aims of the National Officiating Strategy
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How do we work with Sports
Example NZ Cricket Level 1 Coaching Project NZ
Cricket were looking to redevelop their Level 1
course so that they would be better able to
benchmark their coaches and develop better
delivery programmes for the course. They also
wanted to include the latest SPARC coaching
principles
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The Outcomes for Cricket

• Level 1 qualification that meets needs of coaches
  in line with
• SPARC outcomes (your message hasnt changed, we
  are just
• helping to improve it)
• Confidence and evidence that every course that
  takes place, sends the same key messages to its
  coaches and that coaches are be evaluating in the
  same way
• Upskilled development officers
• Able to better evaluate coaches in the field
  (having an actual
• framework to work from)
• More able and confident to present high quality
  courses through
• use of presenter training
• Year on year improvements of your training via
• Improvements based on feedback from customers
  and presenters
• National annual meeting of presenters/assessors
  to discuss issues and consistency of approach
  facilitated by Sfrito
• Provision of minimum standards nationally for
  cricket

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The Outcomes for Cricket Coaches

• Level 1 qualification that meets needs of coaches
  working in a
• particular community
• More interactive and practical workshops based on
  realistic
• situations and tailored to your situation
• Opportunities to help your coaching via post
  course evaluations
• A qualification that is underpinned by the
  Nationally recognised
• standard setting body
• Ability to add to their record of learning
  especially relevant for your
• younger coaches starting out in the world of
  work
• Subsidised Realskills discount card
• For the older generation 25 off Resene Paint
• For the younger generation Includes Free Tui
  Card
• (Discounts at Rebel Sport, Hell Pizza)

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Testimonials

• NZ CRICKET
• NZ Cricket have been working with Sfrito for the
  last six months looking at adding further
• value to the Level One Cricket Coaching courses
  delivered nationally by NZ Cricket.
• We have found the Sfrito representative to be
  responsive, reasonable in their expectations,
• and helpful at every juncture.
• We would be happy to recommend that other sports,
  interested in improving the consistency,
• delivery and/or assessment of their coaching
  courses, contact a representative from Sfrito.
• Mark Lane
• National Coaching Development Associate
• NZ Cricket
• TABLE TENNIS NEW ZEALAND
• Table Tennis New Zealand approached Sfrito to
  assist us in creating the framework for a
• series of holistic coaching qualifications,
  including the alignment of the International
  Table
• Tennis Federation coaching qualifications to New
  Zealand Qualifications Authority Unit
• Standards, in line with SPARCs Coaching
  philosophies. The successful progress of this
• project has placed Table Tennis New Zealand as
  one of the leading sports with regard to
• coach education in New Zealand, as well as
  providing a framework that Sfrito can easily
• transfer to other sports coach development
  initiatives. The team at Sfrito have been most
• responsive in addressing our concerns and desire
  to create a coach education framework

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What are your expectations
For your coaches? (community and performance
coaches) For your administrators? For your
event managers For your officials? For your
volunteer managers? For your volunteers How do
you know what they want? How do you know they
meet your expectations?
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Qualifications currently offered to the Sports
Industry
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Where do you think Sport isheading
Things to think about Qualifications (ways of
learning) Job roles Use of Technology Legislati
on Licensing Demographics of New Zealand
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What do you expect from Sfrito?
RST Pilot Project Qualification Resource
DevelopmentGeneric Coaching ResourceChild
Protection TrainingAdministration
TrainingSkills Gaps IdentificationOnline
LearningWhat keeps you from sleeping?What
would improve the training you get or deliver?

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The Next steps

• Meeting summary report sent out in 10 working
  days
• Draft strategy designed by January 2007 (using
  these meetings, consultation with industry
  representatives, postal feedback)
• Draft strategic plan sent out to stakeholders for
  feedback
• Final version of strategy sent out to
  stakeholders and put on website
• Implementation to begin during Q1 2007
• During this period Sfrito will also
• produce a Sports Industry Skills Strategy

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Questions? Thanks for coming along If you would
like to be further involved in the development of
this strategy and future projects let us
know graham_at_sfrito.org.nz liz_at_sfrito.org.nz
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What is an assessment?
What do you think an assessment is? The form of
assessment for the competency based approach will
be dependent on the requirements of the sport It
can take the form of practical assessment, where
someone will evaluate how you work and give you
guidance on how you could improve It can be done
by asking you questions It has the potential to
be completed online Evidence of your work can be
collected to prove competency (e.g. session
plans, correspondence)