ITC WORKSHOPS
The ITC workshops are held in the first half of the ITC build on the SSI Instructor Training Course Digital Learning and knowledge from previous courses. Through practical application, guidance from staff cooperation, and teamwork, these workshops will develop your instructional skills to be used on the practical side of the ITC and throughout your dive career.
EXAM PRACTICE
Ok no one likes exams. But the SSI ITC is preparing you to complete the PADI Instructor Exam. As such prior to the IDC you have been brushing up on your dive theory and familiarising yourself with the SSI Instructor Manual and other SSI teaching Materials. During the ITC we will practice with a couple of Dive Theory and General Standard and Procedures exams to prepare you for the IE and ensure that your study has been effective.
DIVE SKILLS
Part of being a good instructor is to have good dive skills. You will have been practicing the skills circuit prior to the ITC and there will be a dive skills workshop and evaluation session to ensure that your skills are ready to teach. There will also be an assessment of your Diver Stress & Rescue skills too, in preparation for teaching rescue courses and for the rescue assessment during the SSI Instructor Evaluation.
KNOWLEDGE TEACHING PRESENTATIONS
Knowledge teaching presentations are given by the instructor candidates during the ITC to demonstrate their ability to use the SSI materials to teach. You will use the SSI materials including lesson guides, manuals, and digital products such as the MySSI apps and Digital Learning to teach your fellow IE candidates, to answer questions assigned by your SSI Instructor Trainer from the Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Diver Stress & Rescue, Dive Guide and more.
CONFINED WATER PRESENTATIONS
To prepare you to be able to teach SSI dive courses in the pool and other confined water locations, you will give several confined water presentations during the SSI ITC. These will include practicing using your wetnotes to brief the skills, before giving demonstrations and correcting student diver problems, simulated by your fellow candidates. Teaching presentation skills are normally from the SSI Open Water, SSI Advanced Open Water and Diver Stress & Rescue courses.
OPEN WATER PRESENTATIONS
During the ITC, you will practice teaching two skills at the same time in open water. This is to simulate if you were teaching multiple courses at once. On our ocean training site, you will practice setting up the dive site before conducting the skills. This will focus on diver safety, supervision, and making sure your “students” meet the performance requirements. This will prepare you for the open water section of the IE of course and real-life when planning open water training for your dive students.
