Workshop Overview
The MSHSAA and the MIAAA will be co-sponsoring an Athletic Directors Workshop in Columbia, July 30, 2007. The program schedule is as follows:
8:30 - 8:45 a.m. Welcome & Overview
8:45 - 9:30 a.m. “Legal Concerns”
9:30 - 10:15 a.m. “The Yearly Duties of the Athletic Director”
10:15 -10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 -11:15 a.m. “Facilities Upkeep”
11:15 - Noon “Nuts and Bolts of Athletic Administration”
Noon - 1 p.m. Q&A with lunch (lunch is provided for all AD Workshop attendees)
1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Getting started with MSHSAA
The fee for the workshop is $25 made payable to MSHSAA. Prior to and following the workshop athletic directors are encouraged to take advantage of the Leadership Training Courses (LTC) to be offered Tuesday and Wednesday. See full schedule of course offerings on registration form. Both new and experienced athletic directors are encouraged to attend.
Course Descriptions
LTC 502
Athletic Administration: Principles, Strategies and Methods
The course will take a basic approach to the fundamentals and methods of athletic administration and will alert and educate athletic administrators regarding potential problems and possible solutions in areas such as budgets, transportation, scheduling, and parent/student/coach conflicts. The course will also touch upon sample athletic/activity program philosophies, department organizational charts, activity procedures/checklists, public relations, coaching applications/assessments and emergency plans.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Inexperienced athletic administrators seeking to define and improve their operational procedures.
Required for: RAA, CAA, CMAA
LTC 506
Athletic Administration: Legal Issues II (Title IX, Sexual Harassment)
This course will have in-depth coverage of compliance issues regarding Title IX and gender equity in interscholastic athletics programs, including the methodology for a school to perform a Title IX self-audit, and in-depth coverage of the issues and strategies related to the development of an effective policy for the prevention of sexual harassment in an interscholastic athletics program.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators seeking strategies for minimizing legal challenges in each topic area.
Required for: CMAA
LTC 508
Athletic Administration: Legal Issues III (Hazing, ADA, Employment Law)
This course will have in-depth coverage of the issues and strategies related to the development of an effective policy for prevention of hazing in an interscholastic athletics program, coverage of the constitutional and statutory issues affecting athletics programs, including the impact of disabilities legislation on school athletics, and coverage of employment law concerns affecting athletic programs, including contract law, equal pay, and FLSA issues.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators seeking information concerning Hazing and Employment law and the need of exposure to causes for negligence and to legal “Standards of Care.”
LTC 709
Athletic Administration: Communications, Leadership and Decision-Making Concepts, Methods and Applications for Athletic Administrators
LTC 709 examines relevant strategies and principles that can be used to enhance the skills of athletic administrators in communications, leadership and decision-making. An Ultimate goal of this course is to enhance high school athletic programs and their educational purposes through the use of assessment data.
The course is divided into three sections, each focused on one of the three major topic areas. In this regard, detailed concepts, materials and strategies for enhancement of skills and abilities are provided. Appendices provide relevant materials, instruments and assessment procedures that support text materials and principles.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators who are not familiar with the effect of preferences on communications leadership and decision-making styles.
LTC 790
Athletic Administration: Leadership Training Instructional Methods and Techniques
This course is designed to provide instructors with an awareness of the expectations that are placed upon them in presenting LTP courses. The course examines teaching and learning styles and provides strategies for instructors to use in teaching LTP courses. It provides for interaction current national faculty instructors and potential LTP instructors in the exchange of ideas uses in the successful implementation of courses. To instruct any LTP course, one must complete LTC 501 and LTC 590 as well as the course one will be instructing. Only National Conference Presentation Faculty is permitted to teach LTC 590.
Enrollees who will derive greatest benefit: Administrators seeking to become instructors in the Leadership Training Program.