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Public Education (PE)
PUBLIC EDUCATION MISSION STATEMENT
♦ provide exceptional boating safety
education
♦ be a dominant single organization offering
Recreational Boating Safety education
♦ continue to educate over 150,000 people
every year
♦ be an effective instrument of
preventing
mishaps on the waterways.
Our goal is to increase
recreational boating safety.
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Instructor Information
and Course Materials
• The
FSO-PE Job Description
Overview for the Public Education
Officer.
• Publicity is essential for public
attendance. Unit Public Affairs Officer can assist.
•
Once there is an intent to teach a
class, submit
D11NR Form
7023 W
Class will
then be listed on the
D11 WebSite
. . . link
• Public Affairs Booths gain students
during Boat Shows and during
National Safe Boating Week - Sample Literature:
Boat Show Quiz
Brochure
Flotilla Public
Education Officers (FSO-PE) may order sample copies of Soundings
magazine for their PE class students. Each copy will contain a coupon
allowing the
student to obtain a discounted subscription to Soundings.
Issue requests should be
received by the 12th of each month. Requests
after the monthly deadline will be limited
to available back issues and
will not include the special subscription coupon.
Questions or concerns
can be directed to Claire Brayfield at
 (860)
767-3200
Ext. 238.
Copies can be requested via fax or by email - see
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Suddenly
in Command may be downloaded here for my version which separates the
"Suddenly" experience from the Preparation and Prevention steps. This is
intended for use at 2 hour "campfires" as requested by several Park districts as
well as other events.
Examinations for NASBLA
Approved Courses (ABS, BS&S, SS&S) are REQUIRED to include a STATE law test
National Association of State Boating
Law Administrators require these classes to include state law, and to
include it in the test. The course examination instructions will
explain how to include these questions, and what constitutes a passing
score. The students may need to write their state answers on the answer
sheet since some exams use alpha identified answers rather than numbers,
or have more choices than the answer sheets.
Each set of questions, federal and
state, must be passed independently of the other.
California test
unchanged since 2005 despite emphasis on
Quaggra/invasive species.
Nevada
Utah
Instructor materials for BOATING SKILLS & SEAMANSHIP
(BS&S) 13 Edition.
Two sets of slides, take
your choice! The recommended set is the 12th edition, updated with
materials and law changes from the 13th edition. Most instructors report
they like this set best. The second set is the 13th Edition slides, with
some of the answers added from the Instructor Guide. The Guide's slide
reference is off due to materials added, but some content may still apply.
Instructor materials for
Weekend Navigator
The text no
longer comes with a CD. The MapTech software may be downloaded from their
web site, but I found in simpler to download it myself and burn onto CDs to
give the students. At least for those students without fast download
speeds. I also copied my Maps folder from another software package I use.
Upon installation of MapTech from the CD, despite its notice that it is
crippled to only show Woods Hole area on the East Coast, Maptech found and
allowed the installation of all my charts from the MAPS directory. All the
charts I saved there are free NOAA or MapTech downloads. This allows you to
work with local charts if you wish.
I find the text does not lend itself to a Part 1 and Part II split. Much of
the basic material is included in later chapters, and the early chapters
cover many of the advanced applications. My conclusion is that the text was
written for experienced navigators, showing them how to adapt to electronic
navigation. To teach novices you must often skip to later chapters, at
least for the content even if you do not turn the pages, since that is where
basic definitions are found. Variation, Deviation, calculations for
distance, speed, time, definitions for bearings, ranges, LOP are all found
in later chapters but used in Ch 2 - 5. Also there is no exam(s) for the
course, only one cruise problem. Give it at the end of Part 1 or Part II?
So instructors I know are dropping the two parts and offering it as one
course. Suggest you do the same.
Instructors did
not like the flow of Ch 2 leading into a DR exercise for novice navigators
who have no idea of chart work, DR, chart tools, etc. Works fine for
experienced students, but for the class I skipped the DR section of Ch 2
until after Ch 4 when the chart tools were discussed. Instead I compared
navigating by GPS to piloting, just using the GPS screen. So the first half
of Ch 2 flows into Ch 3, then Ch 4, ending with the DR materials from Ch 2.
It is
unfortunate that Weekend Navigator does not cover fuel management. I wrote
a module with PPT slides and tables which you may download here. I also
have errata sheets for the text and for the PPT slides, and corrected slides
for chapters 4 through 8.
eLIB RESOURCE CENTER FOR INSTRUCTORS
Center provides Power Point Presentations for Boating
Courses, Instructor information, and National Programs. In addition, there
are publications and presentation materials. Visit e-LIB
Resource Center
AUXINFO
The links below show District 11 Northern Region (D11NR)
Public Education hours in 2008 for lead, non-lead, and trainee positions,
and the number of course graduates. This information comes from AUXINFO and
is usually updated each weekend from AUXDATA. "Zero suppression" is used to
remove rows and columns with zero values -- this means that if you don't see
data for a group or individual it is because they have no data yet in
AUXINFO.
Data for flotillas and individuals can be found by left clicking and
drilling down on the left column. Data for different time periods can be
displayed by changing the date field at the top. In the education hours
report, left click on the hours column to expand and list the various
classes.
AUXINFO Public Education Hours...link
AUXINFO Education Graduates...link
AUXPLUS-PE
The AUXPLUS-PE Program is
provided by the National E-Dept for use at all levels. It is designed to
enhance Presentation, Administration, and Record Keeping of Public
Education Classes. Features include permanent records, attendance, mail
lists for future classes, certificate and card printing.
Secure download
requires a
valid email account in the National eDirectory
To activate your account. go there first ==>eDirectory
THEN
To become a qualified
Instructor (IT), a member needs to complete Instructor
Development Course (IDC),
with the exception of credentialed teachers as noted in the Auxiliary
Manual.
Instructor
Development Course (IDC)
may be downloaded from PE
e-LIB...link
or ordered through the FSO-MA.
IDC
material is comprised of four documents:
Instructor Development Course (Informational Content)
Appendix A Student Study Guide (Lesson Planning)
Appendix B Performance Qualification System (Task Sign-Offs)
Appendix C Mentor Guide (Instructor Qualification Check
List)
The Instructor Trainee works with mentor(s) to complete the
following:
Participate in discussion exercises and make feedback task
adjustments
Completes written lesson planning
Present an initial lessons (10-30 minutes)
Conduct PE Chapter(s) Lesson (1-2 hours)
IDC Test with a score of 90%
MT-2 Certification for Instructor signed by Mentor(s) and FC
to be
INSTRUCTOR WORKSHOP 2010
The 2010 Instructor Workshop is now
available on the this
national PE web page.
The workshop is not required this year but will inform of the new
PaddlerSport America course and some new optional materials for the Weekend
Navigator, points to incorporate into your lessons such as recruitment ,and steps
to qualify a new instructor. The length of the Workshop should be 30 - 35
minutes per presentation.
For the enhanced version I presented at DTRAIN download
THIS FILE.
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