Ref Ready! 🏁 — The Officiating Challenge Card
Category: Game Management · 1-page printable PDF · Free for ConnectedPE members
A two-page resource that treats officiating as a skill to be taught, not a chore to be assigned. Page one builds the toolkit: six universal hand signals, a four-step decision framework for making calls under pressure, and three keys to great officiating. Page two puts it to work — six game scenarios to adjudicate, a live officiating log, self-assessment rating and reflection prompts.
Students who learn to officiate see games differently: rules become systems, referees become decision-makers deserving respect, and the class gains a bench of competent officials for every unit that needs them — SEPEP seasons, tournaments, student-led games.
Designed for ages 11–15. Run it before any unit where students will hold the whistle, or as the officiating module inside a leadership sequence alongside The Playmakers. The live log means every student's first real officiating stint generates reflection evidence automatically.
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