"Pay more attention to their good deeds than their misdeeds. If you're paying too much attention to the kids who are misbehaving, the other kids are thinking, 'Well if I misbehave, he'll pay attention to me,' and you're losing the whole team."

- Sigi Schmid, former AYSO player and coach, now coach of MLS's Seattle Sounders. Schmid won NCAA titles

as coach of UCLA and MLS titles with the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Columbus Crew.

Volunteer Training & Certification

All volunteers are required to complete specific training in order to participate in our programs. If you are unsure which you need please contact either your Regional Coach Administrator (RCA) for Coaching requirements or our Regional Referee Administrator (RRA) for Refereeing requirements.

(Descriptions of courses are below)

ALWAYS re-check this schedule on the day of the course to make sure there have been no changes/cancellations.

Items in RED are changes from original posting

You MUST be PROMPT for all courses - Once a course begins, late arrivals and/or early departures will NOT get credit for attending.

For complete course details (times, locations, requirements, etc.):

        Contact the person/email listed next to the course you are interested in.

To register and reserve a space:

    1)  log on to www.eAYSO.org, choose "LookUp"  then  "Course" you want and follow on screen instructions.

                           AND

    2)   contact the person/email listed next to the course you are interested in.

THE FOLLOWING LIST OF COURSES ARE MOSTLY LIMITED

TO THOSE BEING OFFERED IN OUR AREA - 6D

For a complete list of courses throughout Illinois, please go to: www.eAYSO.org, log in and click on  "LookUp" then "Courses"

2010 Volunteer Training

Coach Courses

Referee Courses

Management & Other Courses

Instructor Courses

**Area 6-D Spring Clinics are held yearly and encompasses many levels of training locally. At the minimum, Safe Haven and  introductory courses for both Coaches & Referees will be presented as well as more advanced ones. As soon as the exact offerings are available it will be posted here.

***Section Conference - Annual meeting for our Section AYSO regions offering over 2 days worth of seminars, clinics training and MORE.  Board, Managerial and Administrational certifications. Contact RC1007@DeerfieldAYSO.org for further info and reservations.

To further it's goal of positive child-development, AYSO offers extensive training and certification programs for it's volunteers. The courses are designed to take volunteers through a cycle from a level of little or no experience to a high experience level.

Coach Training & Certification

Referee Training & Certification

AYSO offers training at 6 levels for referees (plus an assistant referee course) and 2 levels for referee assessors:

Referees achieve certain levels by taking the appropriate course, passing the test and fulfilling the other requirements as follows:

*Service Units include observation and mentoring of other refs, assessing refs for upgrade, instructing, and serving on a ref staff at any level. This requirement is waived for referees under 18.

Assessor Training

The Assessor Courses teach volunteers how to observe referees during games and grade them on whether or not they handle games well enough to advance to a higher level of referee certification. There are 2 assessor levels, each with it's own course:

There is an additional level of Grade 3 Mentor. Referees attain this grade by taking the Mentoring class from the Area Referee Course. Grade 3 Mentors can mentor newer referees and, if authorized, conduct Area upgrade observations.

Instructor Training

The new AYSO Instructor Program makes it simpler for a region to deliver entry level training courses to it's coaches and referees. There are 5 levels of Instructor:

Management Training & Certification

AYSO provides training and certification for all Regional Board and Area Staff members.