PADI IDC in Kenya with PADI IDC Online Presentations Before Arrival

This workshop is designed to familiarise you with PADI System components and their uses. You will learn to use the PADI Instructor Manual and the PADI Guide to Teaching and other reference materials such as slates and student manuals, as well as the difference between standards and recommendations.

You will explore how to find what you need to know, do, or reference while conducting PADI programs using your PADI materials

On this workshop you will develop an understanding on the learning and instructional theories and how they are applied to scuba diver training within the PADI system. This includes:

• Why we use performance-based training and how we define the concept of “mastery learning”.
• Handling real-life situations and staying within PADI standards and the importance of using good judgement.

On this workshop we will work on the practicalities of conducting the PADI Discover Scuba Diving experience program. The workshop will include:

• Reading through standards of the PADI Discover Scuba Diving in the PADI Instructor Manual.
• Reviewing and practicing how to conduct a DSD briefing
• Discussing confined and open water sessions and supervision styles and rations.
• Learning how to register Discover Scuba Diving participants with eLearning using the PADI online processing centre (OLPC)

This workshop works on training in the classroom. The workshop will include:

• How to prepare and then present teaching presentations using the PADI system and what media support and other training aids can be used.
• Looking at the difference between prescriptive teaching and micro teaching.
• Preparing your first Knowledge Development Presentation
• Presenting your first Knowledge Development Presentation of the PADI IDC

This workshop looks at preparing you to set up an schedule your own PADI Open Water Diver course. The workshop will include:

• Open Water Course Standard – Read through standards and scheduling options in the PADI Instructor Manual.
• Using Google Jamboard link emailed to you, you will work on virtual white boards to schedule PADI Open Water courses in different areas under different scenarios according to PADI Standards.

You present your second knowledge development presentation of the PADI IDC.

During this workshop, you’ll be getting creative and using good judgement to choosing and working on confined water training sites. This will include:

• You will decide on student and instructor positioning, confined site setup and skill sequencing for specific confined water dives on a number of different sites. You will use the virtual whiteboards on Google Jamboard to show how you would conduct the training.

In this workshop, we will work together to prepare you for the confined water presentations that you will give on the PADI IDC and on the PADI IE. This will include:

• A review of the PADI evaluation slate that the staff will be using to assess your presentations.
• Use your teaching slates and lesson planning slate to prepare your first confined water presentation.
• Doing a dry run of the first confined water skill including the briefing and debriefing of the skill in preparation for when you give these in the pool.
• Confined water skill briefing – You present

You present your third knowledge development presentation of the PADI IDC.

This workshop will prepare you for teaching the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course and will include:

• Read through PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course standards in the PADI Instructor Manual.

On this workshop we will be examining working with the PADI continuing education system. This will include:

• Learning how to link courses according to PADI standards.
• Scheduling your own PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course using interactive whiteboard. This will also include how to link corresponding PADI Specialty Diver courses to your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course.

During this workshop, you’ll be getting creative and using good judgement to choose and arrange training sites for open water dives on PADI courses. The workshop will include:

• Difference between confined and open water supervision.
• How to sequence the skills within PADI Open Water Diver course dives and PADI Adventure dives in different locations.
• The difference between an open water presentation and a confined water presentation on the PADI IDC
• Preparing IDC Open Water presentations.
• Present Open Water presentation briefing (2 skills) – You present.

This workshop will prepare you for teaching the PADI Rescue Diver course and will include:

• Read through the PADI Rescue Diver course standards in the PADI Instructor Manual.
• Go through all Rescue exercises and scenarios.

This workshop covers the law and scuba diving. It will include:

• Local regulations and insurance requirements
• Required documentation and paperwork for PADI courses.
• Dive incident data from the Divers Alert Network (DAN)
• “How do you handle this?” workshop where you review example forms and paperwork.

You present your fourth knowledge development presentation of the PADI IDC.

This workshop will prepare you for teaching the PADI Divemaster course and will include:

• Read through PADI Divemaster and PADI Junior Divemaster course standards in PADI Instructor Manual.

This workshop will prepare you for the sales side of being a PADI Instructor and will include:

• How to market PADI courses
• Licencing regulations
• Sales techniques to help grow your business.

Knowing your dive theory is an important part of being a PADI Instructor so you are in the position to answer “why”. This workshop will include:

• Why dive professionals need to be proficient in dive theory.
• Remedial practice on dive theory you need to go over.
• Team teaching workshops acting as both instructor and student.