IFC

[Rich]

I help out with try dives down the club on pool nights and it has been suggested that I take a IFC course. I know what is means but what actually happens, does it give you the green flag to teach in the pool or is is purely a foundation to build a career of teaching courses in the future?
thanks.

[PeteM]

I help out with try dives down the club on pool nights and it has been suggested that I take a IFC course. I know what is means but what actually happens, does it give you the green flag to teach in the pool or is is purely a foundation to build a career of teaching courses in the future?
thanks.

Once you have completed the IFC you can teach under the supervision of a Nationaly Qualified Instructor (CI/OWI/AI/NI). The directness of supervision depends on what and where you are teaching and your diver grade. Also in most clubs it depends on your level of experience, for instance in ours someone who has just finished the IFC can expect direct supervision at all times but someone who is ready for the OWI exams would be allowed indirect.

If you want to train having done the Instructor Foundation course the next step is the Open Water Instructor Course then the exams

HTH

Pete

[derek perry]

I help out with try dives down the club on pool nights and it has been suggested that I take a IFC course. I know what is means but what actually happens, does it give you the green flag to teach in the pool or is is purely a foundation to build a career of teaching courses in the future?
thanks.

It is a two day COURSE where they teach you the basics of how to teach in the water and how to teach a theory lesson. It is all pool and classroom based and makes you think about safety and how you go about teaching. It teaches you how to break down a lesson and how to present it.
It is a COURSE not an Exam

Hope this helps

Derek

[John Williams]

:=I help out with try dives down the club on pool nights and it has been suggested that I take a IFC course. I know what is means but what actually happens, does it give you the green flag to teach in the pool or is is purely a foundation to build a career of teaching courses in the future?
:=thanks.

It is a two day COURSE where they teach you the basics of how to teach in the water and how to teach a theory lesson. It is all pool and classroom based and makes you think about safety and how you go about teaching. It teaches you how to break down a lesson and how to present it.
It is a COURSE not an Exam

Hope this helps

Derek


And it's bloody goo fun too!

Try and be available to go out for the course dinner on the Saturday night...you get to talk diving with other students and instructors - make new friends and contacts to enhance your diving too!

Best course I ever did...and I still enjkoy it every time I go!

John
ITS Instructor

[Rich]

And it's bloody goo fun too!

Try and be available to go out for the course dinner on the Saturday night...you get to talk diving with other students and instructors - make new friends and contacts to enhance your diving too!

Best course I ever did...and I still enjkoy it every time I go!

John
ITS Instructor

sounds like a better idea all the time!
Rich.

[derek perry]

What Saturday night course dinner???????????????



Derek









Try and be available to go out for the course dinner on the Saturday night...you get to talk diving with other students and instructors - make new friends and contacts to enhance your diving too!

Best course I ever did...and I still enjkoy it every time I go!

John
ITS Instructor

[Dave]

What Saturday night course dinner???????????????

The dinner that takes place on the saturday night during the course. A meet up with dinner with the instructors n students. It took place when I did an ITC


Dave

[Robert McLaughlin]

I help out with try dives down the club on pool nights and it has been suggested that I take a IFC course. I know what is means but what actually happens, does it give you the green flag to teach in the pool or is is purely a foundation to build a career of teaching courses in the future?
thanks.

Hi all
Re this discussion, is there a fast track course? I have been teaching/training and designing manuals for 15 years not in scuba but teaching is teaching.

Regards

Rab

[matt]

Hi all
Re this discussion, is there a fast track course? I have been teaching/training and designing manuals for 15 years not in scuba but teaching is teaching.

Well at least one thing you could learn on the IFC is that teaching diving is a little unique as few other classrooms rob the student of quite so many of their senses.

Anyhow. You need to do an IFC (2 days) an OWIC (1 day) a TIE (1 day) and a PIE (1 day). If you have the ability you could go from Dive Leader to NQI in 5 days. So we already have a fast-trak, you just have to be good enough.

BTW it helps if you can dive as well as teach :-)

Regards
Matt



Regards

Rab

[Adrian Kelland]

You need to do an IFC (2 days) an OWIC (1 day) a TIE (1 day) and a PIE (1 day). If you have the ability you could go from Dive Leader to NQI in 5 days. So we already have a fast-trak, you just have to be good enough.

Except that the days aren't sequential, and you can't book all at once. However the combined instructor courses work this way. You go to Malta or similar for a week and do all the necessary to become an OWI or AI as appropriate. Thats if you pass the tests of course...

Adrian