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One National Standard (NS) Instructor outcome is being 'professional'.
This emphasis on professionalism was perhaps a reaction to other cycle training which was (and still is in some places) delivered by untrained volunteers, some non cyclists, by firemen and policemen, pensioners, school staff and others.
The move to NS training meant the creation of a body of highly trained enthusiastic professionals who know how to teach, manage risk and ride a bike. The sector became 'professionalised'
A method of maintaining a skill set amongst any professional group is CPD (continual Professional Development). Whereby skills are regularly refreshed and updated.
(There will be a minimum requirement of 3 hours CPD for inctructors to keep their accreditation. This will be announced when the Instructor Training Organisations are set up early in the new year.)
CPD modules for instructors have been pioneered by Cycle Training UK who have offered courses on Mentor Training, Teaching families, Learning through games, Level 3 refresher, Teaching refresher, Managing risk refresher etc. More info here.
(In fact CTUK will be running a series of courses in January which may be of use to instructors)
It would be useful to find out where gaps exists in CPD training so please use this thread to share ideas for further training which may be of use to you in order to ensure you a delivering the best cycle training possible.