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From Instructor
Training Provider (ITP) to Instructor Training Organisation (ITO).
Cycle Experience will become an Instructor Training Organisation (ITO) over the summer, in line with the DfT guidelines for quality assured instructor training. Along with our tried and tested instructor training courses, we will also be offering Instructor Trainer Training courses (ITT) and Assistant Instructor courses. All our successful trainees will become members of our ITO with a guarantee of training updates and CPD. In future, Cycling England will only pay bursaries to instructors who train with an ITO. The DfT will only fund Bikeability courses that use ITO registered instructors. The aim behind these changes is to encourage all training providers to attain the same high professional standard that Cycle Experience already provides and clear away those outfits that do not do a good job because they are too small, too part time, or simply ill informed about what cycle training involves.
!! Congratulations to all those who recently gained their provisional accreditation as National Standard Instructors in Newquay as well!! (Click on this link to see other photos from the course)
For a full version of the press release issued in accordance with Truro College click here
Nick
Moon, Director of Cycle Experience said “It is great to be working
with such a group of enthusiastic individuals and I am confident
that they will all make excellent instructors. A very big thank you
to Truro College for allowing us to use their facilities for the
duration of the course and again to Wendy Creed for persevering to
get this course scheduled. Do you want to become a Cycle Training Instructor? As a fully accredited Instructor Training Provider (ITP) Cycle Experience provides Instructor Training Courses (ITC’s) to both;
Cycle Experience’s Instructor Training Course runs over four days (National Standard Instructor*) and covers the theory and a wide range of practical exercises involved in the delivery of Levels 1 to 3 of the National Standards for Cycle Training. The course is delivered by our most senior Instructors who have wide experience in training both children and adults, in groups and as individuals. Courses can be offered locally to where you are for individuals as well as organisations, subject to the availability of the afore mentioned local instructors. For example the SW has 3 potential Lead Instructors who know each other personally and work together as part of a team within Cycle Experience to deliver such a course. In addition, we offer both a public schedule of courses for individuals as well as tailored ‘in-house’ courses for organisations which can be delivered anywhere in the UK. You will need to be a confident cyclist yourself and have your own bike and cycle helmet available for use on the course.
Fees for courses run locally, whether in house within an organisation or for a group of independent cyclists wishing to develop their passion and skills, are determined on an individual basis and are subject to the availability of the local senior instructors, however the SW has 3 such instructors so generally speaking, this is more a question of dates as there are always a minimum of two Instructor Trainers running any one course. The cost also includes two post-course mentoring and assessment sessions which are observed by our Instructor Trainers, who live locally to you. Further mentoring and/or assessment visits will be chargeable. Bursaries of £300 are available for full NSI* training and we are happy to help participants obtain their bursary. Bursaries are also available for the Assistant Instructors course, details on application to Andrew Dade, Training Manager at andrew@cycleexperience.com If you would like to book a place on one of our public courses, arrange an in-house course or just find out more information call us on 0845 434 8451 or email info@CycleExperience.com What qualification does it result in and is it nationally recognised?Anyone who successfully completes the course, will gain their provisional accreditation as a National Standard Cycling Instructor, which is a professionally recognised qualification. They subsequently become fully qualified and gain their full accreditation when within 6 months from the completion of the course, they are successfully observed teaching to the required standard, achieving the desired outcomes. Cycle Experience's Instructor Trainers will provide the necessary support during this period. . During this time, they are able to add their names to the CTC's list of National Standard Instructors for their region and if they wish to have their own scheme Bikeability accredited as many instructors prefer to become freelance, they are then also able to begin working on their Bikeability accreditation application. The National Standard for Cycle Training The National Standard for Cycle Training sets out the skills needed for cyclists to be competent and confident using their bikes for all sorts of journeys. Building on the experience of cycling proficiency the National Cycle Training Standard has been developed by over 20 expert organisations in response to public demand for a modern, nationwide scheme that caters for today's road conditions. The Standard is a progressive scheme that moves through three levels to give parents the reassurance that their children have the necessary skills and confidence to cycle at each stage of their development and particularly to cycle to school. It underpins Bikeability, which has been designed by the leading experts in the field of road safety as well as cycling. It is designed on similar principles to lessons for motorcycle riders and car drivers, assessing the likely risks and obstacles faced by cyclists at each stage of their development and created training that encourages them to make their journeys with the skills to manage these risks as far as is practicable. NB: Please be aware that successfully gaining your provisional National Standards accreditation does not mean that you are also Bikeability accredited, for more information please go to the Professional pages of the Bikeability website The NEW Assistant Instructor's course A new, two
day Assistant Instructor course, ratified by the DfT, was announced
in the summer by the CTSB. The course is designed for those with a
general interest and enthusiasm for cycling (this may include
existing volunteers or young leaders from School Sports
Partnerships) to provide support to local National Standard schemes
in a professional capacity on Level 1 and Level 2 courses. Cycle Experience is run by people with extensive experience in cycle training and promotion services. We are all members of the CTC and are Sustrans supporters. Each of us is committed to the goal of getting more people cycling for the many benefits it brings. Whether you are looking to encourage cycling to help reduce congestion, improve health, reduce CO2 emissions or meet Travel Plan obligations talk to us as our approach is to do all we can to get more people, cycling more safely, more often. An Assistant Instructor will only be qualified to deliver Levels 1 and 2 and then in conjunction with a fully qualified National Standards Instructor. Eventually there may be an opportunity to then expand that by following it up with a further two day course to then become a fully fledged NSI but that course as yet, has to be written, piloted and ratified so limitations will apply for the foreseeable future at least however if you are passionate about cycling but don't have time to organise everything and take the lead, this could be perfect for you!!
What our instructor trainers believe ... Training as an Instructor Trainer is an enlightening process and it's good to always be prepared to learn more, have the opportunity to be mentored and always trying to improve one's own skills to deliver a better quality of service., personally speaking, I found that observing, even if I wasn't doing it with a view to continuing my own development as a Trainer, was profitable because ............. 1. Things can and do change, for example the new directive about Bikeability Level 2 being 8 hours duration so that 6 hours is purely on road as experience shows this is best practise - the writing is clearly on the wall and suggests that the curriculum will be developed further which is no bad thing, a little like a First Aid at Work course which tends to change with the advances resulting from medical research ....... perhaps all instructors should take a turn as support instructors once every three years, as a refresher?? 2. It also gets you thinking about the basics. After a while, one tends to do bits and pieces automatically but could still overlook something important because you actually take the issue as read, as part of the course elsewhere. So it raises your levels of awareness in other respects as well, acting as a vital reminder sometimes in a way that is potentially embarrassing, however that serves to ensure you won't ever forget it again! 3. We all have something different to bring to the table and in doing so, can all learn from each other - for example one of the trainees came up with ABC for a bike check., 'air, brakes, chain' ........... I like it and it makes it simple for the younger children at Level 1 as a starting point., sure, we can go through the M check but they are far more likely to retain ABC when you've gone than everything involved in an M check ....... it is something both I and several other instructors are now adopting and will include in any future Level 1 courses we run for that reason and see how it is received. 4. At the same time when doing the training, we can share our experiences as although trainee instructors will be trained in what to do and the outcomes they need to achieve, one thing you can never train for is the unexpected. By sharing examples of what can happen, then they know to be more alert than just expecting traffic to do what it should, if indeed one can even define what that should be? One can only learn so much from a text book, the rest comes from real life experiences and the unexpected being so unpredictable, whatever it may be, can only be shared after it has happened!
After two very successful courses, which included 4x HE (Uni. of Plymouth) Sports students swelling the ranks of instructors in Cornwall, there is a further courses planned for this year:
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