Course overview

The PADI Instructor Development Course in Bohol Panglao takes you from leading dives to teaching them, and you finish ready to certify divers of your own. Alona Beach gives you a calm, year-round base for training, and the wall dives at nearby Balicasag Island handle the open-water teaching practice. The Philippines' easy conditions and warm 27-29C water give instructor candidates a forgiving environment to polish presentations before the Instructor Examination.

What you’ll learn

• Deliver knowledge-development, confined-water and open-water teaching presentations
• Apply the PADI system of education, standards and the diver curriculum
• Demonstrate, evaluate and correct student diver skills to instructor level
• Manage diver risk and run training sessions to dive-centre standards
• Brief, supervise and debrief student divers with confidence
• Prepare fully for the independent two-day PADI Instructor Examination

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 18
• PADI Divemaster or a qualifying leadership rating from another recognised agency
• Certified diver for at least 6 months
• 60 logged dives to begin the IDC and 100 to sit the Instructor Examination
• Emergency First Response Instructor rating (can be completed alongside)
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

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Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Teaching foundations

   Orientation to the PADI system of education and your first classroom knowledge-development presentations.
2. Day2
   Confined-water workshops

   Practise demonstrating and teaching core skills in the calm shallows off Alona Beach.
3. Day3
   Open-water teaching

   Deliver open-water teaching presentations and skill circuits on Panglao's reefs under evaluation.
4. Day4
   Standards and risk management

   Work through dive standards, risk management, marketing and the business of diving.
5. Day5
   Theory and rescue assessment

   Sit dive-theory exams and complete the rescue assessment to IDC standard.
6. Day6
   IE preparation

   Mock exams, presentation polishing and a full briefing for the independent Instructor Examination.

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