Instructor Development Course

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What’s in it for you?

• Online option available for remote students
• Learn and get certified (IDC and IE) without leaving New Mexico
• SDI’s Instructor Development course focuses on teaching you how to teach
• Learn how to teach students in neutral buoyancy and proper trim

Upon Completion you can

• Teach and certify students in the:
  • Open Water Scuba Diver course
  • Advanced Adventure Diver
  • Rescue Diver
  • Divemaster
  • Scuba Discoery
  • Inactive Diver/Refresher Course
  • Computer Diver
• Students may also be certified to teach recreational and technical specialties

Course prerequisites:

• Minimum age 18
• Certified for a minimum of 6 months
• 100 logged dives
• Certified as a Divemaster or Assistant Instructor
• Provide proof of current CPR, first aid and oxygen provider

What you Will Learn

• Methods of instruction
  • Teaching theory, methods and oral communications
  • Lesson preparation
  • Use of training aids
  • SDI home study program, use of knowledge quest
• Instructor ethics
• The physics and physiology of diving
• How to successfully sell scuba courses
• Standards and Procedures
• The history of SDI
• Liability and insurance
  • Risk management
  • Waivers and releases
• Accident reporting

skills you will demonstrate:

• Present a minimum of
  • Two classroom presentations
  • Two lessons in confined water
  • Two lessons in open water
• Show preparation, planning and control in
  • Dive management
  • Diving activities
• Perform, to demonstration quality, one complete rescue scenario
• Perform a 10 minute survival-float, without the use of swimming aids
• Complete a 400 meter swim on the surface, non-stop, any stroke, without the use of swimming aids, in less than 10 minutes; swim goggles permitted
• Complete an 800 meter swim with mask, snorkel, and fins non-stop without the use of arms in less than 17 minutes
• Bring a diver, simulating unconsciousness, up from depth, not greater than 6 metres / 20 feet; at the surface swim them 100 meters in less than 4 minutes
• Pool/confined water
  • Candidates must perform, to demonstration quality, all skills listed in the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Course
  • Pool/confined water problem solving
• Open Water
  • In open water candidates must perform, to demonstration quality, all skills listed in the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Course
  • Open water problem solving

During the Instructor Evaluation, the student must:

• Present a minimum of
  • One classroom presentation, minimum time 15 minutes in duration
  • One full lesson in confined water
  • One full lesson in open water

SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor minimum requirements:

• Satisfactorily complete the SDI Instructor written exam or online equivalent
• Successfully complete the Instructor Development Course and the Instructor Evaluation
• Demonstrate mature and sound judgment concerning class planning and execution

How to Take this course

Give us a call at (505) 585-1648.