CFI Lesson plans

[PGT]

I'm going through and making some lesson plans but I'm having trouble finding a good template. I found some free lesson plans online and modifying them to match what I need.

Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

[av8or91]

Aviation Instructors Handbook

[SuperCubRick]

I found these a few months ago and they seem to be very nice lesson plans.

http://robinleabman.com/milehighclub/Part_91_Training/CFI_Courses/

I'm working towards my CFII and I've got a binder full of all of his CFII plans and have added little things here and there to them.

[Douglas]

The free ones online should be fine. I spent very little time on my binder and the examiner took 15 seconds to thumb through it and never picked it up again. My buddy took days making it look awesome and full of info, his examiner also flipped through it for about 15 seconds.

But like snowflakes, there have never been two CFI rides the same.

[shdw]

My site with over a years worth of work on course production will go live late december early January 2010. The site contains 53 well structured lessons designed to bring a student through the course without failing lessons. It will be a beta release but if you wish shoot me a PM with your e-mail and when it goes live you will receive notification. Anyone interested is free to drop me a PM, thanks.

PS The site includes many range of tools available completely free, for now, to the CFI.

As for the short term, if you can get by with a currently released syllabus you can save your energy and have access to a much more thorough one soon. I am sorry but I don't have any templates to work off of, I designed my own which was a variation of a few schools and currently available syllabi.

[Nihon_Ni]

Originally Posted by Douglas

The free ones online should be fine. I spent very little time on my binder and the examiner took 15 seconds to thumb through it and never picked it up again. My buddy took days making it look awesome and full of info, his examiner also flipped through it for about 15 seconds.

But like snowflakes, there have never been two CFI rides the same.

I think the benefit isn't in impressing the examiner, but in learning the material while you're putting the lesson plans together and thinking through each maneuver. I spent a few week's worth of lunch hours putting mine together, I don't think the examiner looked at them, but I still consider it time well spent.

[Douglas]

Originally Posted by Nihon_Ni

I think the benefit isn't in impressing the examiner, but in learning the material while you're putting the lesson plans together and thinking through each maneuver. I spent a few week's worth of lunch hours putting mine together, I don't think the examiner looked at them, but I still consider it time well spent.

True, either way you are going to need to skin the cat.

[PGT]

I don't mind doing it as I'm learning a lot but starting from scratch isn't fun! Plus my professor that will be grading this is very strict, it's his way or the high way.

[shdw]

Originally Posted by PGT

I don't mind doing it as I'm learning a lot but starting from scratch isn't fun! Plus my professor that will be grading this is very strict, it's his way or the high way.

If it is for a professor I would just aim to meet his standards. Honestly, completing a full private pilot syllabus in the matter of a few weeks is absurd if you do it from scratch. To give you an idea, over the last year I have put between 750 and 1000 hours into the course I have been working with. I am only on the second rewrite, still, for the last 4 or 5 months. Here is a breakdown of approximately time I've needed to write a "from scratch" syllabus:

250 (2-3 months) hours for research, in my case 7 books cover to cover, forums, and various articles/parts of other books.
200 (2 months) hours for the primary write up, basically free writing.
300-500 (6 months) hours to thoroughly revise my original syllabus and make it readable to the laymen.
Various hours for continued research and just plain thinking to figure out how things need to be structured. It is essentially the work equivalent of a doctorate dissertation to do such a task.

I took between 1 and 2 moths break from pure frustration, heavy real work load, and/or vacation time. What your instructor is likely looking for is some basic outline of what you want for each lesson. I believe moxy or mini gave a great idea on this a few months back to do something basic like that. They said, I will summarize as best I can:

Get a sticky pad and find an open wall. Write down each individual task on a separate sticky bad from the FARs, AIM, and any other information you feel is necessary. Go through the wall and pick out the things that fit together and organize them, I think a blank binder/journal would work. Place the ideas on the stickies that go together on separate pages and then you have your start point. Create a basic outline with objectives, information to introduce and review, and finally some completion standards. A method to do this is on excel.

Here is an example of a blank lesson sheet I created a while back, basically the same as what I used at Daniel Webster: http://www.2shared.com/file/8852411/...on_Sheet.html?



PS: Those of you PMing me, please send me your e-mail address unless you check JC fairly often. To anyone interested in eventually helping out or looking for more info my e-mail is bkonsko@gmail.com, just shoot me an e-mail. Any help is appreciated, more info on how this will work will launch when the site goes live.