Refereeing assesment

Here's a video of me doing my refereeing assessment during a game of six a-side football.

Click the link.

http://vle.chesterfield.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/174298/mod_resource/content/1/Luke%20Monks%20Refereeing.MOV

Visit from staff at the FA

Visit from staff at the FA.

Coaching

This is a picture from us coaching the chesterfield FC development squad.

Academy Africa

Today we took part in an 8 hour football session to help raise money for academy Africa.

Work experience review

During my time doing work experience I believe I learned a lot of things about the sports industry and the good things and bad things about working in it.

Strengths.

• I learned how to promote a club. At first i thought being assigned a club to promote was going to be rather challenging but I must say I enjoyed it. It was my job to design promotional materials for the badminton club which college run. I learned about different promotional techniques and how to attract more attention to posters by adding things such as bright colours.

•  I got practical coaching experience. I still believe I can improve massively as a football coach so to be given the chance to coach sessions on my placement was great. It helped me improve my communication skills and how to speak to kids of different age and ability. It also helped improve my coaching skills, Confidence and leadership skills and I would happily coach the Chesterfield Development squad again.

•  It was nice to mix with different people during my work experience placement for example when we went to plant trees with the council I got to meet people who I'd never spoken to before and i believe this helped my confidence and communication skills as I'm a rather shy person. It was also good to give something back to the community and to do something outside of sport which gave me great satisifaction.

• I got to experience the not so nice parts of working in the sports industry but that didn't put me off the idea at all. we did things such as clear the stock room of the sports hall out and tidy it up and then putting the nets out and netting on them in the wind and rain on the Wednesday morning which wasn't pleasant but it taught me that not everything about working in the sports industry is good.   

Areas for improvement.

• I believe that we could of been given more written work to do as just promoting the badminton club took me barely any time at all. I also believe we could have maybe sat in on a few theory lessons within the college and maybe help assist in more practical sessions. I believe this would have maybe gave me a better insight to what it's like to be a full time college lecturer.

 My Aims

• To gain more confidence.
• To improve communication skills.
• To improve leadership skills.
• One of the most important ones was to improve my practical coaching skills.

I believe the wide range of activities we covered helped improve all of these for example planting the trees with the council helped improve my communication skills and confidence because I had to work with people I'd never had met. Then the coaching of the Chesterfield development squad helped improve all of the above.

Career aspirations and work experience.

I definitely believe that taking part in my work experience placement has opened my eyes into the opportunists of working in the sports industry. Although I do want to work experience i believe after the two weeks i won't be pursuing a career as a sports lecturer anytime soon, although i do think it would be a great career i don't believe currently it would suit me. 


Luke Monks.

Work Experience diary

Monday 2nd of  December - After arriving at college at 9:00AM we was sat down in the changing rooms to have a briefing of what we would should be expecting during our time doing work experience. We then was told to organize and sort out the stock room in the sports hall for a few hours and then after this it was our job to find and print off motivational quotes to be stuck around the new changing room facilities home to the college football teams.

Wednesday 11th of December - I went in to college Wednesday morning to work on a poster to help promote the college badminton club. I worked on this for a couple of hours before having to get on the mini bus to play against Loughborough college in the afternoon.

Thursday 5th of  December - Again i came into college to continue work on promoting the badminton club which I got finished that morning. I also stayed a couple of hours to work on assignments.

Monday 9th of December - Monday we arrived in college at 9:00AM to find out we would be helping to plant trees that afternoon at the Chesterfield Rugby Club with the Derbyshire County Council. We set off to do that at 1:00PM arriving back at the college around 3:20. That morning I again worked on any other ways i could promote the badminton club and my other outstanding assignments.

Tuesday 10th of December - Tuesday I came into the college to take a coaching session with the kids from the chesterfield development center. The session we ran was fairly basic but was good fun and I think the kids enjoyed it.

Wednesday 11th of  December - We traveled to the colleges new built football facilities to help assist putting the new nets out and the netting on this took around 2 hours. We then officiated a game between the first years on the newly built pitches taking it in turns to referee and to pick teams.