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Instructor Exam Knowledge Development Teaching Presentation

PADI IDC Course Guide IDC Classroom Presentations dive theory class presentations Initially you teach a ‘topic' which we call micro-teaching then you progress to prescriptive teaching (using the PADI prescriptive Lesson Guides) Microteaching Example of a ‘micro teach' on ‘Staying Warm', that if delivered interestingly and confidently will score an overall 5 in the classroom. Tips: When you put your lesson together, don't write a script.  You will lose points if you read something parrot fashion, rather write yourself bullet points and enlarge on them.  This has been written this way in order to show how the lesson would proceed. Involve your students by getting them to read the whiteboard and asking questions, you will have to ask some to score the points, but don't just leave it at the minimum. It's important that you don't ‘over teach' a subject.  In other words don't teach to Divemaster standard on your Open Water course.  Just teach what's i