Office and Administration - SPORTS ADMINISTRATOR
Planning
a Sporting Event
(Idea from Kiralee Nolan ACU Education student)
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
1. You are the sports administrator for a sporting club of your choosing. For this club you are asked to organise a skills sessions for children wanting to join the sport of your choosing.
2. Document a plan of:
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The equipment you will need
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The cost of this equipment and marketing the event
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An advertisement flyer (what time, where, when etc.)
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What are the drills you’re going to run? (in detail explain the activities, you must have at least 6)
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What challenges could occur? In other words, what risks are there?
3. Create a short information flyer about the sporting club and give them a URL that they can then register their children with the club.
4. Present this plan in a creative way to the class.
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Critical and creative thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
Philosophy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
Teacher
This is a Community of Inquiry activity. Click here to learn about the process to conduct a CoI.
1.
In groups of 4 - 5, read the following selected articles about doping in
sports from
The Conversation. Divide up the reading to two articles per person.
Summarise each article and in point form list the arguments put forward.
The Conversation 7 February 2024
The Conversation 31 March 2023
Earlier Readings from The Conversation
Teacher
3. Gather all the questions in the each of the quadrants. Concentrate on the "Questions for Thinking" and list all of them.
4. List all the questions on the board and put the students' names next to their question.
5. Ask the students to think about grouping the questions - the ones that are the same or similar - together.
6. Start the discussion with the most asked question.7. Make sure the students follow the rules of Philosophy in Schools:
- Only one person speaks at a time
- Pay attention to the person who is speaking
- Give other people a chance to speak
- Build upon other people's ideas
- No put-downs (Source: Phil Cam)
8. Discussion should involve students in critical, creative and caring thinking:
| Critical | Creative | Caring |
| give reasons explore disagreement consider implications apply criteria weigh evidence |
generate questions raise suggestions imagine alternatives formulate criteria make connections build on ideas |
listen to other's points of
view consider other's reasons explore disagreements considerately build on other's ideas explore other's opinions help to synthesise suggestions |
9. Provide Closure: Example: Get the students to reflect in their journals a time when they felt lonely.
10. Leave the questions on the board or copy them so that the other unanswered questions can be used in the next lessons.
It's
not Cricket! Is it?
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding
Philosophy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
1. In groups of 3 - 5 students,
read and view the following articles and videos.
Divide up the work to two articles/videos per person.
Summarise each article/video and in point form list the arguments and
ideas put forward.
The Conversation 1 November 2022
YouTube:
CRICKET HISTORY!!! Disgraceful underarm bowl. NZ v AU 1981
https://youtu.be/QIjCpPStHnE
YouTube:
Greg Chappell Talks About the Underarm
Incident
https://youtu.be/ybe0wXQHe0Q
YouTube:
ON THIS DAY, 1981 A moment
Richie Benaud described as 'one of the worst things' he had seen on a
cricket pitch
https://youtu.be/lcLr9V0S1yE
Answer the following questions as a group and then hold a class discussion:
1. What is cheating?
2. What is cheating in Cricket?
3. The Australian Cricket team participated in cheating in 1981. What happened? What was the outcome for the people involved? What did the Australian public think of this action?
4. The power differential between the Captain and the other players is always present yet Trevor Chappell is the one associated with the 1981 incident rather than the Captain, his brother, Greg Chappell. Why? Do you think this is ethical?
5. What did the famous Sports commentator, Richie Benaud, think of the action in 1981?
6. What happened in March 2018? Were there any circumstances involved with this decision? Who was involved?
7. Does it make a difference if the action is pre-planned? Why? Why not?
8. How do you think Australians and Australian cricketers are viewed by the cricketing world after this incident in March 2018? Does that matter?
9. Trevor Chappell has been vilified [criticised] since 1981. Is this justified? Do you think this will happen to Smith, Warner and Bancroft?
10. Is there a culture of winning at all costs within Cricket Australia? What responsibility do the Sports Administrators have in the culture of the team? Cricket Australia has a person with the title "Head of Integrity". Why is this necessary as a Sports Administrator organisation?
11. Does the punishment fit the crime? Why? Why not?
12.
Discussion.
Does it matter if the action taken was legal vs something that is illegal but still against the "spirit of the game"? Is it still "cheating"?
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