Team Sports Officiating
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Unit Title | Foundations of Officiating & Safety Practices | Communication, Positioning, and Ethics | Application of Sport-Specific Officiating Skills | Health, Physical Activity, and Fitness | Developing a Conflict Management Plan |
Time | 1 week | 1 week | Varies by Sport | Embedded Instruction | 1 week |
Understandings | Students understand the course syllabus, class expectations, and the foundational principles and roles of officiating in team sports. Students understand the responsibilities of sports officials, including the importance of rules knowledge, communication, and fitness. Students understand how officials recognize and respond to common injuries such as sprains, cuts, and fractures. Students understand the critical role officials play in responding to life-threatening emergencies until medical personnel arrive. Students understand the importance of correctly demonstrating first aid, CPR, and AED use as a safety expectation for officials. Students understand how hands-on practice and scenario-based drills support confident emergency response during real-game situations.
| Students understand the role of officials in team sports, including fairness, rule enforcement, player safety, ethical principles, and managing disputes and difficult situations. Students demonstrate effective verbal and nonverbal communication with players and coaches during game scenarios. Students apply rules, communication, and positioning skills in practical officiating experiences, including role-play and mock games.
Students understand the legal rights and responsibilities of a sports official during games. | Students understand and apply the rules, roles, and responsibilities of officiating across multiple team and individual sports, including football, basketball, volleyball, soccer, track, and softball. Students demonstrate accurate use of sport-specific verbal and non-verbal signals to clearly communicate calls. Students consistently enforce game and event regulations, including violations, penalties, scoring, and procedural rules. Students communicate clearly, professionally, and effectively with players, coaches, and fellow officials during competition. Students analyze and regulate gameplay and events through practical officiating scenarios, simulations, and in-class activities. Students demonstrate personal responsibility, integrity, and sportsmanship by officiating according to sport-specific rules and best practices, including safety practices. | Students demonstrate and understand how to set, apply, and adjust a personal fitness plan to meet the physical demands of sports officiating. Students demonstrate and understand how health-related fitness and physical activity support performance, safety, and effectiveness in sport-specific officiating.
| Students demonstrate and understand common types of conflicts in sports officiating and why managing them is important. Students demonstrate and understand strategies to prevent and de-escalate conflicts, including effective verbal and nonverbal communication and consistent rule application. Students demonstrate and understand how to analyze game situations and make ethical, fair, and professional decisions under pressure. Students demonstrate and understand how to create, reflect on, and apply a personal conflict management plan in role-play and mock game scenarios.
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TEKS | C.1A,B,C,D C.1I C.4A C.8E C.9A,F,G,I | C.1A,B,C,D C.1I C.2A,B,C C.5A,B,C C.4B C.9B | C.1A,B,C,D C.1I C.2A, B C.4A,B,C,D,E,F C.8A,B,C,D C.9A,B,C,DE,F,G,H,I | C.6A,B,C,D,E,F,G C.7A,B,C,D,E,F | C.3A,B,C,D,E |
Skills TEKS | C.1A,B,C,D,I C.8E
| C.2A,B,C C.5A,B,C | C.1C,D,I C.2A,B,C | C.6A,B,C,D,E,F,G C.7A,B,C,D,E,F | C.3A,B,C,D,E |