Teaching the Buoyancy Control Pyramid
There are things you can add to your beginning scuba courses (without including questionable skills, or making the courses longer or less convenient) that nevertheless increase their perceived value and, thus, help set them apart from the competition. This article provides a concrete example of the concept of value-added instruction. More…
What Every Diver Should Know About Equipment Maintenance
This handout addresses issues such as: The need for annual service; what’s involved in a regulator overhaul; and, why warranty coverage from a factory-authorized dealer is vital. More…
Rental/Teaching Equipment Survey Results
So, do you think dive stores are doing a good job of preparing students to use the type of equipment they are most likely to buy or rent? Not according to our recent survey. Find our how your store compares.
Another Way to Make More Time for Real Teaching
Just how much do students learn, sitting on the bottom waiting their turn to do another “skill?” If you want students to learn to dive, you have to take them diving. Here’s another trick that can help make more time to do just that.
What’s Wrong With This Picture?
So long as you follow standards, you’ll do a good job of training divers — right? Not necessarily. More important that what you teach is what students actually learn. See what we mean.
Defining Mastery
Your training agency’s standards most likely stipulate that it is not enough that you merely teach a skill. What is required is that students are able to demonstrate that they have achieved mastery of that skill. What does this mean? How does it relate to your ability to teach defensively? Find out more…
The Domains of Learning and the Future of Dive Training
On-line training isn’t something that’s coming down the road. It’s here now. And, like it or not, it will change the face of diver training. Are you ready? Do you fully understand what it’s all about? Find out more…
Rethinking Regulator Recovery
It’s among the most basic of skills, yet the way most of us teach it has remained unchanged for decades. And, guess what? It may not be effective.. Find out more…
The Most Basic Question
When and how is the best way to promote continuing education, equipment sales and dive travel to your newest customers? We’ll give you a hint: It's sooner than your think, more frequently than you think and in ways you may not have considered. More…
Teach Different, Teach Better
Much of what passes for “open water” training isn’t open-water training at all. It’s a repetition of pool training masquerading as open-water dives. The bottom line: It’s only an open-water training dive if you actually go diving. Anything else just creates certified non-divers More…
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