Day 40-Compliance Project!

Today I met with my mentor Paul Lyon. I gave him updates on work studies, and the new google maps progress that I had made thus far. In addition to my continued work on those tasks, he has asked me to use my past experience as an educator to analyze the current compliance education sessions that occur monthly and see if there are any ideas and different methods of instruction we can utilize.

Following our meeting, I headed back to my office to reflect on my previous experiences as an Interim Head Bowling coach last year when I was required to go to the sessions and learn all about NCAA compliance. The meetings were 100% lecture style teaching instruction in which our compliance officers stood at the front of the room and read through new rules and old to ensure everyone was aware of them. After going through each topic and providing explanations, they would ask if anyone had questions (a room full of experienced head coaches wanting to get back to practices never did) and we would all go our separate ways after roughly 20 minutes.

As a former teacher, I recognize that lecture based instruction is typically one of the least effective methods of delivery. Instantly, I scraped the current format, hoping Paul would not be insulted. I thought back to how I got the most out of my students back in my science classroom, and remembered how important it was to pre and post assessments to learn about what people knew prior to the topic, and what they learned after. Thus I designed a monthly strategy to send out a mandatory pre-test quiz for all coaches to take. Currently, only one person from each program had to attend the meetings. I felt that this was not acceptable to have only one person know and hear about compliance, and thus suggested a mandatory policy so that no one gets missed with the rules.

I created a google forms pre and post test quiz with the help of John Fitzgerald, the Coordinator of Compliance. Additionally I discussed with him the idea of recording all zoom meetings so that anyone who missed a call could watch it later to help them get the information in a more flexible manner.

After a few hours of brainstorming and talking with Paul and John, I determined that my suggestion for the meetings would be as followed:

-pre test to see what the coaches know (this will allow them to see what must be addressed in depth in the meetings)

-Meeting (recorded) where material is discussed and explained with additional examples

-Post test to assess what they learned

Both tests also serving as a tracking method to see who is complying with the mandatory meetings and information sessions. Moving forward, I plan to make more quizzes and find a way to implement the course design with John and Paul if they think it is acceptable.