PADI IDC staff instructor
This course provides you with in-depth knowledge of the instructor development process and prepares you to shape the next generation of PADI Professionals. It is designed to provide you, PADI MSDTs with the additional training necessary to staff PADI Instructor Development Courses. It builds upon your experience and abilities as a dive educator while concentrating on developing evaluation and counseling skills. Through independent study, classroom sessions, guided evaluation training and an internship, you’ll learn to teach PADI Assistant Instructor course and assist with the PADI Instructor Development programs.
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course goals
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Familiarize you with the PADI IDC standards, curriculum and procedures.
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Familiarize you with the PADI Assistant Instructor course standards, curriculum and
certification procedures.
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Develop your evaluation skills to an effective and consistent level.
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Develop your counseling and critique skill to an effective level.
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Further develop your presentation skills to a role model level.
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Prepare you for staffing PADI IDC programs.
idc staff duties
As a PADI IDC Staff Instructor you are authorized to:
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Independently teach and certify PADI Assistant Instructors.
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Conduct PADI IDC training segments under direct supervision of a PADI Course Director.
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Evaluate and critique candidate knowledge development, confined water and open water
teaching presentations.
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Provide counseling and remedial training for instructor candidates and IDC Staff Instructor
candidates.
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Assist with training during instructor level continuing education programs, such as PADI
Specialty Instructor Training courses.
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Observe the orientation and closing sessions of PADI Instructor Examinations.
what is involved in the course?
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Pre-assesment
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Successfully complete Dive theory exams (physics, physiology, RDP, Equipment and Skills & Environment)
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Successfully complete Standard Exams
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Present one prescriptive teaching knowledge development presentation
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Present one confined water teaching presentation
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Present 24 skills to demonstration quality
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Present Rescue Exercise 7 (Unresponsive Diver at the Surface) to demonstration quality
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Knowledge Development
Participate in four PADI Course Director Presentations:
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The IDC Staff Instructor course orientation
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Instructor Development Standards, Procedures and Curriculum
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How to organize and conduct the PADI Assistant Instructor course
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The psychology of evaluation and counseling
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Evaluation Trainings
Using video and live presentations you will practice
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Evaluating candidate knowledge development presentations
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Evaluating candidate confined water teaching presentations
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Evaluating candidate open water presentation
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Evaluating candidate skills demonstration quality
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Practical Application
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Observe organization, communication and preparation for an IDC
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Audit all IDC training segments
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Assist with IDC logistics and arrangements
