NTSA Club Instructor Course

Sparks

For those in the NTSA who are interested.

From the NTSA website:

NTSA Club Instructor Course
Written by Mark Dennehy
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Folks,
The first NTSA Club Instructors course will be held in Wilkinstown Community Hall on Sunday, December 7
The instructors will be Geoff Cooney (ISSF Class C) and Matt Fox (ISSF Class C).
This is envisaged as being the route to getting trained coaches in every NTSA club, so we strongly urge volunteers to sign up.
This course is the first step towards the NTSA Club Coach Course, which will be run later next year, and graduation from this course will be a prerequisite for that course.

Read on for further details.




The aims of this course are to prepare instructors to effectively coach ISSF rifle shooting training at club level and to develop coaching skills – planning, organisation, demonstration, analysis, provision of feedback and evaluation skills – so that coaches can plan and deliver a safe and enjoyable training programme for Club Shooters.

The course will run for one day from 0900 to 1700 with breaks for coffee and lunch.
Fourteen places are available for this course.

(There is a club BBQ being held that evening in Wilkinstown Target Shooting Club and participants are officially invited to attend after the course).

Participants on the course must:

1. Be a member of the NTSA and a club/other body
2. Be approved by the NTSA through their club/other body
3. Be 18 years of age or over
4. Pay course fee of 50 euro
5. Submit written requirements 14 days before start of the course
6. Have passion to develop the sport
7. Be willing to develop own skills and knowledge

Course candidates will be required to submit certain documentation to the NTSA 14 days before the start of the course. This comprises four essays of 250 words (half an A4 page) or more, discussing what the participant feels are the important aspects of the following topics:

• Firearms safety
• For rifle instructors: standing position, prone position and kneeling position
• For pistol instructors: air pistol and 25m pistol

Course candidates should contact Mark Dennehy by email at [url=mailto:training@targetshootingireland.org?subject=NTSA_Club_Instructors_Course]training@targetshootingireland.org[/url] for further details.

(contacting me by PM here is fine too)

Sparks

Following technical difficulties, this got delayed. Following solving those difficulties...

From the NTSA website:

NTSA Club Instructor Course
Written by Mark Dennehy
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Folks,
Following some technical difficulties, the first NTSA Club Instructors course is back on again. It will be held in Wilkinstown Community Hall on Sunday, March 15.
The instructors will be Geoff Cooney (ISSF Class C) and Matt Fox (ISSF Class C).
This is envisaged as being the route to getting trained coaches in every NTSA club, so we strongly urge volunteers to sign up.
This course is the first step towards the NTSA Club Coach Course, which will be run later this year, and graduation from this course will be a prerequisite for that course.
The aims of this course are to prepare instructors to effectively coach ISSF rifle and pistol shooting training at club level and to develop coaching skills – planning, organisation, demonstration, analysis, provision of feedback and evaluation skills – so that coaches can plan and deliver a safe and enjoyable training programme for Club Shooters.

The course will run for one day from 0900 to 1700 with breaks for coffee and lunch.
Fourteen places are available for this course.

Participants on the course must:

1. Be a member of the NTSA and a club/other body
2. Be approved by the NTSA through their club/other body
3. Be 18 years of age or over
4. Pay course fee of 50 euro
5. Submit written requirements 7 days before start of the course
6. Have passion to develop the sport
7. Be willing to develop own skills and knowledge

Course candidates will be required to submit certain documentation to the NTSA 7 days before the start of the course. This comprises four (three for pistol coaches) essays of 250 words (half an A4 page) or more, discussing what the participant feels are the important aspects of the following topics:

* Firearms safety
* For rifle instructors: standing position, prone position and kneeling position
* For pistol instructors: air pistol and 25m pistol

Course candidates should contact Mark Dennehy by email at training@targetshootingireland.org or by phone at 085 7747546 for further details.

(And again, posting or PMing here is fine by me as well)

Sparks

Bumping this to remind anyone who's interested in going that the 'homework' is due in at the end of this week!

Sparks

Evidently that bump didn't notify enough people. There were insufficent confirmed numbers when the coach tutors met tonight to prepare for the weekend, so the course has been deferred to April 5 while new attendees are recruited. Homework from them will be due in by March 20.

Folks, we've been asked to run these courses for years. It'd be nice if folks actually followed through on that...