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The Maine Center for Sport and Coaching and
the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators
Association (NIAAA) have joined forces to offer professional
development opportunities online for athletic
administrators. The NIAAA Leadership Training Program provides
resource tools to assist in developing and maintaining a
quality sports program. By offering several of the NIAAA
Leadership Training courses online, the NIAAA and the MCSC hope
to broaden availability.
NIAAA Leadership Training courses being offered
online by the MCSC:
LTC 501 Athletic Administration: Philosophy, Leadership
Organizations and Professional Programs This flagship course of
Leadership Training serves as an overview for interscholastic
athletic administration. This course focuses on the roles of
the NFHS, the NIAAA, teh State Athletic/Activity Associations,
and the State Athletic Administrators' Associations. The course
also previews the NIAAA Certification Program and the NIAAA
Leadership Training Program. It is a prerequisite for all
levels of certification and includes study materials for the
CAA Certification Examination.
Required for: RAA, CAA and CMAA Certification
Course Cost: $125.00
LTC 502 Athletic Administration: Principles, Strategies
and Methods
This course will take a basic approach to the fundamental 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.
Required for: RAA, CAA and CMAA Certification
Course Cost: $125.00
LTC 504 Athletic Administration: Legal Issues I (Risk
Management)
This course has been developed to guide contemporary athletic
administrators and coaches in their efforts to reduce and
manage risks. As such, it is intended to alert program
administrators to potential sources of litigation and provide
information about contemporary and preventative "best
practices" and strategies for risk reduction. The course should
be used as a framework for examination and development of risk
management procedures and guidelines for local schools or
school districts. It is intended to serve as a focal point for
thoughtful staff discussions and for development of local
policies, methods and school-specific procedures. Athletic
administrators will be exposed to five areas of study and will
become conversant with various legal issues and potential
sources of litigation that challenge contemporary high school
athletic administrators risk management strategies.
Required for: CAA and CMAA Certification
Course Cost: $125.00
LTC 506 Athletic Administration: Legal Issues II (Title
IX, Sexual Harassment)
This course has in-depth coverage of compliance issues
regarding Title IX and gender equity in an interscholastic
athletic program, 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 athletic program.
Required for: CMAA Certification (Effective January 2011
LTC 506 will be required for CAA Certification)
Course Cost: $125.00
Register now!
All athletic administrators who successfully complete a
Leadership Training Course will have the option of receiving .5
Continuing Education Units (per course) from the University of
Maine. The CEU has been designed as a uniform unit of
measurement to facilitate the accumulation and exchange of
standardized information about individual participation in
non-academic credit continuing education programs.
Visit www.niaaa.org for further information about the NIAAA
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