Dennis Burns - Umpires in the community
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Dennis Burns, Cricket Australia, I'm the Umpire
Educator.
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Traditionally umpire training has concentrated
on the need of great cricket umpires, junior
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cricket has been left to one side, and has
evolved by its self. There's a real need to
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create a pool of perspective umpires, eventually
who will go on to perhaps to umpire and officiate
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in grade cricket. There's an even greater
need to ensure that cricket is played in local
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communities is played well, is played safely
and is played fairly and the program aimed
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at enabling, empowering those communities
to produce officials within them and to give
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those officials, not just information and
knowledge, but status via accreditation, by
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the ASC and Cricket Australia, as recognised
people in the community who make a positive
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difference to the lives of the people they
officiate.
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The initial course, and I emphasise the work
initial, is a 3 hour delivery model which
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we take out, it has varied between the state,
but one thing we've found, what really works
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in empowering local people to help deliver
the course, one thing we don't want to do
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is overawe people with celebrity, so it's
a one of celeb event, and then they go away
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from that, we thought, via the evaluation
we thought very carefully about the words
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we use, about the environment in which the
course is delivered, who actually delivers
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it, and we thought about it in concepts like
inclusion, getting people to relax, to enjoy
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and also realise this is an initial course.
It's partly information giving, but it's about
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enjoyment. So the way the course is structured
it has to be interactive, people have to make
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a positive contribution. So the use of "celeb"
whilst attractive, we think is not effective
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in empowering local communities.
Dennis Burns, Cricket Australia, I'm the Umpire
Educator.
0:00:12.019,0:00:19.019
Traditionally umpire training has concentrated
on the need of great cricket umpires, junior
0:00:19.580,0:00:26.580
cricket has been left to one side, and has
evolved by its self. There's a real need to
0:00:27.199,0:00:33.260
create a pool of perspective umpires, eventually
who will go on to perhaps to umpire and officiate
0:00:33.260,0:00:39.859
in grade cricket. There's an even greater
need to ensure that cricket is played in local
0:00:39.859,0:00:46.859
communities is played well, is played safely
and is played fairly and the program aimed
0:00:48.920,0:00:55.230
at enabling, empowering those communities
to produce officials within them and to give
0:00:55.230,0:01:01.480
those officials, not just information and
knowledge, but status via accreditation, by
0:01:01.480,0:01:07.480
the ASC and Cricket Australia, as recognised
people in the community who make a positive
0:01:07.480,0:01:13.930
difference to the lives of the people they
officiate.
0:01:13.930,0:01:20.930
The initial course, and I emphasise the work
initial, is a 3 hour delivery model which
0:01:22.470,0:01:28.720
we take out, it has varied between the state,
but one thing we've found, what really works
0:01:28.720,0:01:35.250
in empowering local people to help deliver
the course, one thing we don't want to do
0:01:35.250,0:01:42.090
is overawe people with celebrity, so it's
a one of celeb event, and then they go away
0:01:42.090,0:01:49.030
from that, we thought, via the evaluation
we thought very carefully about the words
0:01:49.030,0:01:55.360
we use, about the environment in which the
course is delivered, who actually delivers
0:01:55.360,0:02:02.360
it, and we thought about it in concepts like
inclusion, getting people to relax, to enjoy
0:02:04.090,0:02:11.090
and also realise this is an initial course.
It's partly information giving, but it's about
0:02:13.970,0:02:20.970
enjoyment. So the way the course is structured
it has to be interactive, people have to make
0:02:22.090,0:02:29.090
a positive contribution. So the use of "celeb"
whilst attractive, we think is not effective
0:02:33.990,0:02:35.670
in empowering local communities.
