A couple of comments...
It's important for them to learn to descend before going to open water. On the first two dives I instruct my students to stay close enough to the line so they can use it if they need it but the plan is to not need it. When they near the bottom they stop and hover. I don't have to look for any one but yes I must still watch closely.
NO I dive correctly weighted. How can you set an example for students if your incorrectly weighted. We check weighting and trim at the beginning of the dive. I have extra weights in the float or on shore nearby if needed. Once every one is squared away there's no need for me to wear extra weights of giva away any of mine and dive underweighted.
Zept once bubbled...
I have almost finished the training and internship for the PADI DM course.
The thing I have found hardest to get my head round is the degree to which you have to manage both student and newly certified divers. For example, we train in very poor vis (1-2m). If I don't tell my divers to hold the rope all the way to the bottom and keep holding it when they get there, they let go and disappear and I have to go back up and find them. Gngh. Nothing is obvious to new divers, you've got to tell them what to do... but without offending them.
It's important for them to learn to descend before going to open water. On the first two dives I instruct my students to stay close enough to the line so they can use it if they need it but the plan is to not need it. When they near the bottom they stop and hover. I don't have to look for any one but yes I must still watch closely.
Get used to diving with a lot of extra weight, or not enough. If you carry extra weights, your divers won't need them. If you don't, they will. And when you think you've finally got everyone sorted out, someone will float off to the top.
NO I dive correctly weighted. How can you set an example for students if your incorrectly weighted. We check weighting and trim at the beginning of the dive. I have extra weights in the float or on shore nearby if needed. Once every one is squared away there's no need for me to wear extra weights of giva away any of mine and dive underweighted.