Administrative involvement- Ch. 15-18 Flashcards
What does short term planning consist of?
Day-to-day or week-to-week tasks and responsibilities to ensure successful program operations
What is long-term planning for?
plans 5-10 years; sometimes referred to as strategic planning
What is maintenance planning for?
determines/anticipates routine/non-routine needs, changes and deterioration in equipment/facilities.
How many steps are in the recreational sport program planning model? What are they?
5
Understanding goals/objectives of organization; understand participant needs and organizational capacity; plan and design program; implement program and evaluate program/make recommendations
What are organizational goals and objectives?
what the organization plans to accomplish and the overall mandate for the organization
What is facility planning?
anticipation of facility needs and provides details/justification for development of new recreation sports facility.
What is equipment planning?
Systematic anticipation of equipment needs
Why should you plan?
guides decision making by providing justification for choice and design
establishes priorities/resource allocation
meets desires/needs of individuals/community
prevents bad decisions/costly errors
establishes accountability for programs and their outcomes
framework for evaluation
What are organizational goals and objectives?
Outline intended accomplishments of organization providing an overall mandate for them.
What are mission statements?
declare organizations purpose
What are vision statements?
create organizations current purpose and provide direction for what it wants to be/ become in future.
Why do organizations consider participant needs?
To ensure program meets needs, wants, desires and preferences of participants.
What kinds of opportunities should programs provide?
catering to different ability levels
offering variety of program types, formats, times, and locations
consideration of the social aspects of recreational programming
What methods can be used to obtain a needs assesment?
social indicators, surveys, community group approaches, and advisory boards.
What is the organizational capacity purpose?
determines how many staff needed/skill level, what current programs might meet needs, what equipment, facilities and supplies are needed, and what kind of budget is necessary.
What are program goals?
broad-based statements of intent and what program plans to accomplish in general.
What are program objectives?
measurement points of goals and how they plan to measure them.
What are implementation objectives?
Specify intentions for implementing program. Relate to inputs, activities, and outputs of program logic model.
What do outcome objectives address?
who- s involved,
behaviour- what is involved in the program and how is it displayed,
condition- how will it be done
timing- when will it occur
degree- what means will accomplishment of objectives be measured
success- what is standard of success acceptable
What does the program logic model consist of?
inputs, activities representing the planned work;
outputs, outcomes and impacts representing the intended results.
What should be considered before designing and developing programs to meet participant needs?
staff and their skill level
what current programs might meet needs
what equipment, facilities and supplies does organization have access to.
what is the budget like
What is a program logic model?
visual method of outlining components or elements of program.
What makes up the planned work of program logic models?
Inputs: resources needed for program
activities: what the program does/entails.
What make up the intended results of the program logic model?
outputs: products of program activities measured in volume of work accomplished
outcomes: benefits or changes for individuals during/after participation
impact: overall intended/unintended change in organization/communities/systems as result of program
