Reform in Continuous Professional Development for Licensing Purposes

The Malta Football AssociationTechnical Centre has recently organised a course for Coach Educators.  These coach educators will be working under the guidance of the MFAand will be in charge of organising Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses for licence purposes.  While other informal instructional meetingsare encouraged and may still be organised by the respective clubs, only approved CPD’s by the Technical Centre will be valid for licensing purposes.  Instructional meetings will be organised in each of the following categories and the licensed coach needs to attend a 3-hour CPD in the specific area of his license and / or age group that he is currently coaching. Frequency of CPD’s per yearThe following CPD’s will be held to cater for the number of coaches in the relative categoriesand the following 22 CPD’s will be entirely subsidised by the MFA.CategoryNumber of instructional meetings held per yearVenueU5– U/86ClubsU/9 – U/126ClubsU/13 +6ClubsWomen1Clubs1st & Premier Division1TCGoalkeeper1TCFitness1TCTotal 22  A list of CPD’s with the relative tutor, the course number, the date and the venue of the CPD will be published by mid-September on the MFA website.  Coaches need to apply for 3 CPD’s in order of preference and they will be directed to attend a particular CPD.  Places will be filled in order of forms received and so the earlier the application is sent, the more likely that the list of preferences is satisfied. CPD’s will not exceed 50 candidates and a non-registered candidate will not be allowed to sign.  The same holds for candidates who miss more than 15minutes of the particular CPD.  Registration for CPD’sThis is held in 2 ways:i)                    For coaches who are actively involved in the youth sector up to and including U/17:They need to book through their respective head coach on a form which will be used on purpose.ii)                   Coaches who are coaching older age groups, goalkeepers, fitness, women or inactive coaches:They need to apply at the TC by sending a mail to Ms Mary Micallef on mary.micallef@mfa.com.mt stating the age group they are coaching and the instructional meeting they would like to attend.  Upon receiving approval from the Technical Centre, the candidate will just need to turn up on the date and venue indicated.  Coaches who do not show up for a booked CPD will not be admitted automatically in other instructional meetings.  Coaches who are currently coaching Premier and 1st Division may not apply but an invitation will be sent personally to such coaches when a meeting is purposefully organised for them at the Technical Centre. Further CPD’s totalling to a minimum of 2 hours will be held by courses which are organised by the respective clubs through the same licensed coach educators.  The topic and content will need to be approved by the Technical Centre.  The relative expense for such CPD’s will be borne by the club organising the event.  The list of the 21 licensed coach educators is listed below: List of coaches13 +5-12FitnessGoalkeeperWomen’sAttard WayneBugeja HermanBartolo LudvicSciberras CharlesBrincat PierreGrima StefanoCamilleri EdwinButtigieg Mark A Gatt MarkMansueto JosefChetcuti ClaudePaganiLuca  Pullicino PeterCostantino Ken   Turner NoelGrima Godfrey   Vella SilvioMarlow Mark   Zarb C NeilVella Ronald   Grima Stephen    CLICK HERE to download the application form for instructional meetings