IndigoBlue
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Genesis:I can't take credit for the session idea - look in this thread and you will see the original suggestion by O-4 - the idea is his - but it makes sense. We kicked it around over an hour SI the other day and refined it to the point that it makes a LOT of sense.
I got the idea for modularization from and old NAUI instructor who teaches in Southern California. He uses the classroom, pool, ocean, classroom, pool, ocean modular plan over several weeks of training. I read his posts on the internet site out there that he posts on.
The agency truly is only a framework. Everything depends on the individual instructor and his/her personal motivation to teach. It takes more time to do it that way, and for the same market-driven price, you end up donating time to the students, to get the job done right.
On the other hand, I abhore mass-produced basic O/W divers. But that is how many instructors make more money, for less time invested. The problem is then, however, that these neophites are then unsafe to themselves and to their buddies, until they get the experience they need in the school of hard knocks, or until they drop out of diving.