1596 Jill Nicolini Interviews Steve Jennings ACS and PBIA Master level instructor

You've got the knowledge of the material you're teaching.

Yeah.

excuse me um okay but uh the instructor training not just not only teaches you the the material we teach you how to present it

yeah

and you present it in such a way that everything builds on what you've already gone over it's a it's If you think back when you were in high school and you took math.

Okay.

Okay.

They taught you one plus one, two plus two, you know, and so on and so forth.

You know, you didn't, you had to get that part before they moved on to the next thing, which is, you know, 17 divided by three, right? OK, a little more complicated, a little trickier and then further and further.

And now all of a sudden you're in algebra one and you're doing this.

We do the same thing with pool.

We start laying a foundation.

OK, here is the basic stuff you need to be able to teach your students.

And here's how we do it.

These are the methods that we use that we have found are most effective for our students to learn.

Okay.

My personal style, I use a lot of real world examples that people are familiar with.

Yeah.

Okay.

If I'm explaining how you have a slow, smooth backstroke.

Okay.

OK, and that doesn't mean anything to a lot of people.

What is slow and smooth? So I say, imagine you have a pot of boiling water on the back burner of your stove and you need to move it to the front burner of your stove.

How are you going to move it? Are you just going to grab it and yank it? No.

You're going to be very deliberate and slow and careful and bring it up.

You've got the knowledge of the material you're teaching.

Yeah.

excuse me um okay but uh the instructor training not just not only teaches you the the material we teach you how to present it

yeah

and you present it in such a way that everything builds on what you've already gone over it's a it's If you think back when you were in high school and you took math.

Okay.

Okay.

They taught you one plus one, two plus two, you know, and so on and so forth.

You know, you didn't, you had to get that part before they moved on to the next thing, which is, you know, 17 divided by three, right? OK, a little more complicated, a little trickier and then further and further.

And now all of a sudden you're in algebra one and you're doing this.

We do the same thing with pool.

We start laying a foundation.

OK, here is the basic stuff you need to be able to teach your students.

And here's how we do it.

These are the methods that we use that we have found are most effective for our students to learn.

Okay.

My personal style, I use a lot of real world examples that people are familiar with.

Yeah.

Okay.

If I'm explaining how you have a slow, smooth backstroke.

Okay.

OK, and that doesn't mean anything to a lot of people.

What is slow and smooth? So I say, imagine you have a pot of boiling water on the back burner of your stove and you need to move it to the front burner of your stove.

How are you going to move it? Are you just going to grab it and yank it? No.

You're going to be very deliberate and slow and careful and bring it up.