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- From: njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich)
- Subject: Re: getting started-selecting instructors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.140430.29548@scifi.uucp>
- Organization: Nick Simicich, Peekskill, NY
- References: <1993Jan25.175628.27012@smos.com> <1993Jan26.131311.11874@gssec.bt.co.uk> <15832@nntp.rand.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:04:30 GMT
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- In article <15832@nntp.rand.org> Karl_Schutz@rand.ORG (Karl Schutz) writes:
-
- >Good/bad example: an instructor gets backlogged with students due to weather.
- >A couple is in a hurry to complete the course before they leave on their dive
- >vacation. To accommodate their schedule, the instructor (given pool-time
- >availability) conducts the open water sessions before the pool sessions.
- >(Unfortunately, there are documented reports within PADI that this occurs :-( )
- >In this example, the instructor has subjected the students to the more demanding
- >tasks prior to the less demanding tasks. Not a safe teaching practice, IMHO.
- >The instructor is competent/confident with the material, and a real accommodating
- >person. However, too accommodating, placing students at unnecessary risk. IMHO,
- >not a *good instructor*.
-
- In Utila, I've seen an instructor do the open water dives before the
- confined water and classroom (which was all done in one day, and not
- much confined water, after all, they had already done their stuff in
- the open water...) to accomodate the fact that his students were
- flying out the next morning.
-
- The students had no idea how badly the instructor had screwed up.
-
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- Nick Simicich - uunet!bywater!scifi!njs - njs@watson.ibm.com
- SSI #AOWI 3958, HSA 318, NAUI #14065
- Join the movement --- turn 'to bush' into a verb.
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