Progress comes in BIG doses!

By admin on November 18, 2011 in Diving in Bali

Hello again ladies and gents!

As another couple days blow by, content and confidence growth continues right along with it. We have just finished day 7 of the IDC prep portion, (6 if you count the optional day of rest or fun diving, although most people just take that as another classroom day to focus on theory or pool skills) and now have one final day remaining before the IDC officially starts. Over the past 2 days we went over some very useful presentations which highlighted the different aspects we will be exploring and applying once becoming an instructor. We looked at things like how to effectively conduct courses, specialities, marketing, career opportunities, business of diving and much, much more. Although it involved many slideshows and classroom hours, the personal experiences and stories that Westy (Course Director-Tom West) and Staff Instructor Thomas Mckenzie shared along with them made them much more interesting and a far more rewarding learning experience. Also, we had discussions throughout and went through a couple questions at the end of each section to help with the learning process. Quite mind blowing stuff I must say!

Today, we had our Emergency First Response Instructor orientation which led us through an in depth look at our focuses on the EFR courses from an instructors standpoint. We did a couple simulations of instructor/student teachings on one of the primary care skills and filled out some action plans which we will refer back to later. Tomorrow for day 2 of the EFRI we will actually give presentations and do mock EFR courses will full debriefings and go through all the importance’s we need to know for when we actually teach EFR.

I finally just got home and as much as I would love to take a nap, I got some work to do! Better throw on some coffee!

More IDC course updates to come!