| If one accepts that the aim of being an instructor is to safely impart enough knowledge (and practice) into your student to enable them to safely carry out the aims of the course then going straight to instructor shouldn't be a problem. There are some born instructors/teachers and all you have to do is give them the subject matter and off they go. Others take longer.
If you consider that an instructor should be very experienced in the subject and be able to react to emergencies during training then that is a different set of requirements altogether.
It is too easy I think to point out people such as yourself and ask what experience you might have, but frankly that isn't what the student pays for (albeit desireable). The student is paying to learn the subject matter, to be able to achieve the course aims and to be proven to be able to achieve those course aims (through certification). If you have 100 or 1000 dives is immaterial.
Until something goes wrong. |