Transcript 2011 Inst. Workshop - US Coast Guard Auxiliary

2011
Instructor
Workshop
Prepared by
United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
Education Department
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
Policy Statement
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is our steadfast volunteer corps. Our
Auxiliary Shipmates assist the Coast Guard with performing our many
challenging maritime missions, with boating safety remaining as their
core function. Proudly serving alongside our total workforce, Auxiliarists
make it possible to more ably accomplish our missions – they are a true
force multiplier.
The Auxiliary Service priorities include:
• Promoting and Improving Recreational Boating Safety;
•Providing trained crews and facilities to augment the Coast Guard and
enhance safety and security of our ports, waterways and coastal regions;
•Supporting Coast Guard operational, administrative and logistical
requirements.
Excerpt: U.S. Coast Guard Policy Statement
R.J. Papp, JR
Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard
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For whom ?
Members who are:
• Involved in public education
• Mentoring new members
Teaching Member Training courses
• Representing the Auxiliary in any type of
presentation
• Seeking to improve his/her presentation skills
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Goals of this workshop
• Provide information about available educational
resources
• Showcase some of our most important and
successful programs
• Paddlesports America Course
• AUXPlus PE Class Administration System
• Enhance current instructors’ skills
• Improve recruiting and retention
• Market public education classes
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Part I
Auxiliary
Public Education
Courses Available
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Multi lesson courses
• BS&S Boating Skills and Seamanship
• SS&S Sailing Skills and Seamanship
• Weekend Navigator
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Seminar courses (1-8 hours)
About Boating Safely (ABS)
GPS for Mariners (GPSFM)
Suddenly in Command (SIC)
Paddlesports America
Personal Water Craft Safety Course
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Seminar courses
Waypoints
Boating Safely Grades 4-6
How to Read a
Nautical Chart
Youth Instructor Guide
Waypoint/Boating Fun Instructor
On The Water Training Program
Boating Fun
Boating Safely – Grades K-3
Check availability of material
for children’s program
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Complement your “classroom” work with a 4hr
session On the Water with certified instructors,
Coast Guard Auxiliary Coxswain & Crew
Part II
Paddlesports
America Course
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Paddlesports America
Paddlesports America is an exciting safety
course designed to attract the novice
paddle enthusiasts. This four-hour course
presents five chapters of safety
information.
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Paddlesports America
5 Chapters:
•Know your Paddlecraft ->new material?
•Planning to get Underway
•Safe Operation
Already
•Legal Requirements
Known
•Boating Emergencies
Most instructors already know majority of
the course curriculum
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Paddlesports America
Content of Chapter One: Know your Paddlecraft
(may need to refresh for most Auxiliary instructors):
• Know your vessel
- Parts of a canoe and kayak
• Understanding vessel characteristics
- Basic types
• Hull shapes & materials
• Lengths, widths and weights
• Selecting a paddle
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Paddlesports America
Resources to learn more about paddlecraft:
Paddlesports” on AuxB Wiki:
http://auxbdeptwiki.cgaux.org/index.php/Paddlesports
http://www.piersystem.com/go/doc/823/482767/
Canoe Kayak Magazine
American Whitewater.
U.S. Canoe Association.
America Outdoors.
American Canoe Association.
American Rivers.
Professional Paddlesports Association.
(the underlined items above are linked to each organization’s website)
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Paddlesmart America
Market your Paddlesports
America course with these
ANSC Materials:
#2001C – CD-ROM –
Smartstart for Paddlers
#2001D – DVD-Smartstart for
Paddlers
#3029 – Pamphlet, Paddle
Safe
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Paddlesmart America
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Part III
AUXPlus PE
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AUXPlus PE
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Enter classes & courses
Enter persons (attendees)
Make attendance records
Print automatic letters
Certificates and cards
… and more!
• Program
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Requires internet only for program updates
Password protected
Lots of help
Email your data up the chain
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AUXPlus PE – additional resources
Education Department Electronic Library - elib
http://cgauxed.org/completecourses.html
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AUXPlus PE
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AUXPlus PE
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AUXPlus PE
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AUXPlus PE
Enter Account Name: FSO-PE
And Password: FSO-PE_1
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AUXPlus PE - Class
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AUXPlus PE
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AUXPlus PE
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AUXPlus PE - Schedule
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AUXPlus PE - Certificate
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AUXPlus PE - Card
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Part IV
Successful Instructor
Techniques
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Look the part
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Impressions are important
You represent the Auxiliary
Uniform should be worn neatly and with pride
All instructors should wear the same uniform
http://hdept.cgaux.org/pdf/UPG-DEC2010.pdf
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Consider learning styles
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Reading – 10%
Listening – 20%
Charts – 30 %
Films & Videos – 40%
Demonstrations – 50%
Role Playing – 80%
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What’s right / what’s wrong?
(for group discussion)
You’re teaching a BS&S Class at the local yacht club. You
have two assistants, Herb and Jim. You’re wearing the
tropical blue uniform, Herb is in his ODU uniform and Jim is
wearing dungarees and a sweatshirt.
You greet the class, introduce yourself and your assistants.
You ask if anyone has any special needs or impediments.
Everyone is fine and you begin assembling your audio/video
equipment. You take a little over five minutes to set up and
begin the class by telling them you haven’t received the course
material as yet but you will have it for the next session.
You complete your class a little over the allotted time and ask
the attendees to come up to see you with any leftover
questions.
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What’s right / what’s wrong?
(for group discussion)
Your FC has a friend who needs to teach a class to
maintain his instructor qualification and asks you to let him
teach your class. You reluctantly agree. He begins and is
obviously not prepared. You remain silent for a while but it
becomes so bad that you begin to interject more and more
until you are doing most of the teaching. At the end of the
lecture you thank him and give him an opportunity to leave,
which he does. You then ask if anyone has any questions
and take the opportunity to clarify many of the items taught.
You make up your mind that you will not let anyone teach
in your class unless he/she is totally prepared.
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Suggested topics for small group discussion
1. What should your students expect from you and from your
course? How will you know if you are meeting their expectations
during the course and not wait until the end of the course?
2. How are you going to decide where to concentrate your energy?
What can be left out and what has to be covered? If everything
in important then nothing is important.
3. What has really worked for you in the classroom over the years?
4. How do you think Auxiliary courses can be improved?
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Suggested topics for small group discussion
5. Is it better to expose new boaters to one or two instructors or
a wider variety?
6. Do you think our tests show what has been learned in the
class?
7. Are we changing the students behavior? If so, how?
8. Share one technique you have tried that was successful and
one that did not work.
9. How can you handle the wide range of experience that
members of the class often bring - from beginner to
experienced boater?
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Assess constantly
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Encourage positive & negative criticism
Review the students’ comments
Build on your strengths
Review missed test questions
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“YOU’RE ON STAGE”
• Engage students with eye contact and movement
• Avoid becoming static
• Teach to every student
• Watch students’ expressions
• Don’t turn your back to the student
• Don’t depend on technology to instruct the class
• Technology is meant to be used as a teaching
aid, not to replace you as the instructor
• You, not the projected image, are the teacher
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Part V
Recruiting through
Public Education
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Discussion item
The classroom is a good place to look for
potential members. How might you
approach a group to encourage them to
think about joining the Coast Guard
Auxiliary?
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Recruiting opportunities and strategies
• Invitations to meetings
− Invite at every class
• Plenty of hand outs
− Showcase various Auxiliary missions
• Actively mention flotilla needs
− Not just boats - finance, computer skills, etc
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Ways to recruit in the classroom
• Talk to students, not to each other
− Talk up missions
• Work in local pictures or anecdotes
• Deliver the Auxiliary message, every time!
− Make recruiting part of the lesson plan
− Deliver benefits of membership
constantly
− Show enthusiasm for what you do
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Part VI
Marketing
Public Education
Classes
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Advertise your class
What are some ways you can advertise your
class? Let’s do some “brain storming” and
see how many ways one can get the
Auxiliary message to the boating public.
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Use VE/RBSPV partners
• Vessel Examiners and Program Visitors
- Partners in recreational boating safety
• Our common mission?
- “Saving lives through education”
• How will VEs/PVs help?
- Distribute class schedules at VSCs
- Share schedules with boat dealers and
more
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Use web sources to advertise your class
• Post PE classes
- District, division and flotilla web pages
- State boating department web site
- Boat/US, Soundings
• E-Department Library
www.cgauxed.org/elib
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Conclusion
• Effective Auxiliary instructors are
- Professional
- Enthusiastic
- Constantly practicing and improving their craft
The E-Dept – dedicated to serving Instructors’
needs
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Let’s go to the classroom
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