[HCRA] Next Year's License Class (already)

[Peter Beauregard]

Hi Gang,

I am beginning to plan for next year's Technician Class License course 
for the HCRA.  It's too early you say?  Not for this part!


For the next months before the class I am looking for who would like to 
become instructors for the class.  What I would like to see is a pool of 
people that are interested in teaching one of the 33 topics (or 
several).  When the time comes, this list will give me an available pool 
from which to choose instructors from when filling in the schedule.  As 
we get closer to the beginning of the course, the dates of the course 
will become formalized.  Some of the dates will most likely not work out 
very well for some of the individuals in the pool.  This is why having 
several people with overlapping interests will work out well so that the 
work can be distributed evenly among the people in the pool.


Remember that because the work is distributed between so many people, 
the obligation committed to by becoming an instructor is relatively easy 
to meet.  This year's course went rather well and the students of the 
class have indicated to me that they did enjoy the format.  I attended 
all of the class meetings to try to be the "glue" that cemented the 
classes together and was able to fill in the blanks that some 
instructors had regarding information presented at previous classes.


If this is something that you would like to participate in next year, 
then I would like you to take a look at the topics listed on our web 
site by clicking on the following link: 
 http://www.hcra.org/instructors.  Pick as many of the topics as 
possible that you are capable of presenting.  Remember, you will only 
have to present a few topics even though you may have selected 8 or 10 
for example.  If you only select one topic, I would see what I can do to 
make sure that you are able to participate by presenting that topic.  


The book has been revised for June of 2003 so the topics may have to be 
realigned with the book.  I don't anticipate that the topics will change 
that much.  If new topics are added, I will post them.  It is more 
likely that just the page numbers of assignments will change for the 
various topics.


Don't delay!  The best time to take care of generating a list of 
interest in this course is sooner rather than later.  I spent way too 
many hours during my winter break (near thirty) organizing the course 
this year.  I am going to try and spread the time out better over this 
next year so I don't get into a crunch situation again.


Thanks in advance for your help in this matter.

73 de KI1I,
Peter