About The Event

The NAUI Instructor Trainer Workshop (ITW) goals include learning to:

• conduct the NAUI Staff Training Workshop and effectively manage an ITC/ICC staff.
• teach staff members to consistently evaluate instructor level performance.
• teach staff members counseling techniques so that they may assist candidates to succeed in ITCs and ICCs.

NAUI Instructor Trainer candidates will develop the foundation needed to conduct future Instructor Trainer Programs and Instructor Crossover Programs (phase one of ITCs and ICCs). Graduates of the workshop earn the designation of Instructor Trainer that carries with it a new responsibility to develop new members and shape the future of the only worldwide educational scuba diving association. The workshop is fun and yet very educational. It will be a little more than two days of accelerated and rewarding training. In addition to learning how to run NAUI instructor-level programs, qualify and manage training staff, you will develop your skills at presenting the NAUI Orientation, Master Scuba Diver physics and NAUI leadership academics from the NAUI Leadership and Instructor Instructor Guide. The workshop will also include a confined water session during which you will refine your confined and open water teaching and evaluating techniques, and leadership water skills performances and evaluations will be practiced and perfected. A closed book exam on the NAUI standards will be given at the end.

Location: TBD

Costs: $750 if 2 students, $500 if 3-4 students

Prerequisites:

• Age minimum is 21 years by the water phase of the course.
• Certification/Experience/Knowledge. Any active-status NAUI Instructor who has completed a
• NAUI Staff Training Workshop and the following activities may attend an Instructor Trainer Workshop (ITW).
• A minimum of 200 logged open water scuba dives. o Minimum of 2 years of teaching experience
• Conducted and registered at least 150 scuba certifications of which at least 25% are continuing education and leadership courses.
• Staff/participate in 3 ITCs (ITP/IQP) for at least 100 student contact hours. One ICC may be counted toward this requirement.
• Conducting, staffing and evaluating experience gained at Instructor level courses before becoming a NAUI Instructor Trainer are acceptable.
• Be a member in good standing for the year immediately preceding the Instructor Trainer Workshop.
• Equipment. Candidates shall furnish and be responsible for the care and maintenance of their own diving equipment. The instructor shall initially assist candidates in checking all their gear to ensure it is adequate and in proper working order.
• Materials. Contact the NAUI Training Department for current requirements.

Each candidate will need to bring:

• Appropriate open water scuba equipment to include 2 Tanks. (Tanks and weights can be acquired locally.)
• NAUI Instructor Trainer Workshop Guide to be downloaded off of the NAUI.org Members' Area.
• NAUI Confined Water ITC evaluation slate product supplied in your packet.
• NAUI Open Water ITC evaluation slate product supplied in your packet.
• NAUI Standards and Policies 2020 to be downloaded from NAUI.org Members' Area.
• Latest NAUI Scuba Diver Instructor Guide to be downloaded from NAUI.org Members' Area.
• Latest NAUI Leadership and Instruction Instructor Guide to be downloaded from NAUI.org Members' Area.
• NAUI Leadership and Instruction Textbook.
• You must personally own the License to use the above IG’s. If you do not, contact us on how to obtain them.

To register or if you need more information, please contact Wally Barnes at wally1716@aol.com or 305-975-1716.