Mount Laurel New Jersey’s Dinoto Karate Center creates a new curriculum exclusively for martial arts teachers.
One of the unique features of Dinoto Karate Center is it’s Certified Instructor Training program (CIT). The CIT program not only offers our students more advanced techniques and higher-level training but offers them the opportunity to become certified as officially licensed instructors at our academy. They are also offered the opportunity to become a staff member and earn a living from their martial arts. This program is a fantastic idea. We believe that no one should be instructing a karate class in the name of any organization without having received a certificate of approval from a reputable martial arts academy.
Certification should be a prerequisite for being an instructor. It makes no sense for a martial arts school to allow someone to instruct as a karate instructor when they have not been qualified to lead and run a class.
Furthermore, it would be intelligent –and make good sense– if there were programs designed to ensure that the people who teach martial arts were qualified in a few specific areas:
- Basic communicational skills
- Basic health
- Basic nutrition
- Basic instruction for all ages (as young as 3 years old!)
- Basic exercise
- First aid & CPR
- Class curriculum design
- Class organization
- Technical diagnosis
- Basic coaching / mentoring
- Basic business principles
Are these topics given any attention at all in the current offerings of instructor training in the martial arts schools in your community?
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