SDI instructors and potential SDI professionals often hear the term
flexible teaching, but what does this really mean? So let's take a minute to really look at this.
When you take a look at our standards, they're for the most part, a simple list of dives and
minimum standards. Minimums are just that. Minimum requirements for the course completion.
Those are designed to accommodate the most prepared and focused of students.
Our instructors have the flexibility to add relevant skills or academics or even
repeat skills or academics to best benefit students in the class.
There is one major reason this is done. To create educators instead of instructors.
Have a student who has difficulty with mask skills? Build their confidence with
success and other skills. Move on to another one that they are able to do,
gain their comfort in the water and then come back to that mask clearing.
Have a student who gets neutrally buoyant instantly? Integrate some combo skills
with swimming to challenge them to keep them learning. Come up with cool games.
Have some engineers in the nitrox class who breeze through the calculations?
Don't waste your time overteaching with them. Switch gears and keep them engaged and learning.
So how do you totally embrace this system of teaching?
Never teach the same class twice, keep yourself excited by learning new topics and
innovative ways, keep your students excited by challenging them in fun ways
and remember to train divers not just people that do skills.
Keep those four points in mind and customize your training programs to fit your needs.
Whether you're a new or old SDI instructor, we have tools like slates and
instructor guides to help you organize your programs.
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