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Dan Chissick - Israel - Instructors Course

Instructors Course

On Friday we held the opening of an Orienteering Instructors Course. This is my 5th course - I participated in 1992, and Ive organised three more since 1998, in all cases doing most of the teaching myself. I also taught our only Coaches Course in 2007. This time Im in…
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charge again, but Ive got a team of coaches to share the workload, because otherwise I couldnt manage.The course includes 60 hours of academic stuff (at any one of our sports colleges) and 140 hours of orienteering studies, mostly in the forest. It usually takes about half a year of Fridays to finish, and has around 15 participants - mostly orienteers, with some physical education teachers. The certification is necessary by law in order to teach orienteering at schools, but I dont think thats the reason most of the participants join in.Its going to be fun, but a lot of…

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