As you may have guessed from several starry eyed and grinning faces, we have 4 new PADI Instructors; Barry, Simon, Jo and Paul. But although I wasn’t quick enough writing the blog about Barry and Simon completing their PADI Assistant Instructor Course I must congratulate them as well as Ian and Tim who worked really hard in order to complete the course. The PADI Assistant Instructor course is one of the most rewarding PADI programs you can do but with that goes an awful lot of time, effort and preparation during the course. Ian, Tim, Barry and Simon certainly deserve recognition for their success.
The course is made up of several components but essentially each one is based around the ability to now teach students. Classroom presentations must be completed as well as pool presentations, skill practice with ‘problem students’, open water presentations, rescue assessments and further theory exams. Each one of the candidates was scored during the process and certainly there was a significant improvement by the end of the course. Ian must get a special mention as he did a fantastic job of overcoming his anxiety of speaking in public and scored highly for his classroom presentations, we're not sure about his giant stride entry from the top of the cliff though!
Barry and Simon went straight on to complete the PADI Instructor Development Course and although Ian and Tim haven’t yet they too will fly through the Instructor process and make fantastic PADI Instructors but for now, we are looking forward to their involvement with Sub-Mission in their new role as PADI Assistant Instructor. Well Done.
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