[Janos]

I'm sure you know a lot of this already. But I did my TIE and PIE last year and my 2p's are:

For the PIE, in no particular order.

1) Don't try and do too much. Tow and AV in one session is hard to do in one session if you are progressive.
2) Be progressive - you can't have too many small steps.
3) Make sure you can do the skills yourself!
4) Be prepared - have laminated sheets (I can send you mine to check against if you want but it's good to make your own)
5) For extra brownie points, teach at every opportunity: This is how we put our fins on. This is how we kit up. This is how to do a giant stride etc etc.

For the TIE

1) Don't try and do too much
2) Have good visual aids
3) Involve the class - try and get people up on their feet and doing stuff. For my lesson "Deep diving" I took one part (methods of doing decompression stops) and I had everyone reeling off a 'shotline' which they got back to and ascended on to a trapeze which 'drifted' out the classroom. Great fun. The rest of "deep diving" was covered the previous week and the next week.
4) Check for transfer. Both during the presentation and at the end. My last slide / part of the presentation is a summary screen where you can say 'we talked about this and what's this?" and then we talked about this and what is?

Oooh, and remember to revise for the exam.

Laters,
Janos