Course Description and Downloads
Course Description
Unlike other USPS courses, the Instructor Development course is not designed to enhance boating skills. Rather, its emphasis is on enhancing instructor skills. The course has been designed to demonstrate interactive teaching methods focused on adult learning. Students are required to prepare lesson plans and give four presentations to their peers utilizing a variety of teaching aids and presentation skills. Each presentation is to be given on a topic from one of the public boating classes with the intent that upon completion of the course every student will be qualified to teach or proctor at a squadron boating class.
Fully developed suggested lesson plans for each chapter are contained in the instructor manual and PowerPoint presentations are available, as well as overhead transparency masters.
Instructor Development Course Manuals
The Instructor Development (ID) manuals, both Student and Instructor Manuals, are available from HQ free of charge, thanks to a grant from the Educational Fund. Use the inventory numbers in the latest Materials catalog when ordering. Effective 1 December 2004, the grant will no longer cover shipping costs, therefore to avoid additional shipping costs, combine orders for ID material on the same form as other material being ordered.
The Instructor Development Course was upated in May 2005. The exam number for the current 2005 edition is IQ13. The revised accompanying PowerPoint® slide presentations may be downloaded from this site (see Downloads below)
Downloads
PowerPoint slides may be downloaded individually by chapter or in one comprehensive zipped file. Use your browser's "save as" function (usually the right mouse button) to name and save it on your computer. You will need the latest Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer to view and print individual slides. See the Educational Department Help page to obtain a free viewer for these slides. If you would like to modify any of the slides to customize your presentation you will need the full MS PowerPoint program installed on your computer.
2005 Instructor Development Course - PowerPoint Presentation Slides (09 Aug 2005)
These slides may also be used to print color or black and white overhead transparencies.
IM_Introduction.ppt (180 kb) Introductory section IM_1_Verbal_&_Non-Verbal.ppt (159 kb) Chapter 1 IM_2_Adult_Learning.ppt (176 kb) Chapter 2 IM_3_Disabilities.ppt (117 kb) Chapter 3 IM_4_Lesson_Plans.ppt (364 kb) Chapter 4 IM_5_Questions.ppt (105 kb) Chapter 5 IM_6_Teaching_Aids.ppt (675 kb) Chapter 6 IM_7_Presentations.ppt (249 kb) Chapter 7 IM_PPT.zip (1.4 mb) Single all inclusive file of all chapters
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