Chapter 464-6 INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION
For purposes of these Rules, there shall be two forms of
certification by which an instructor may become certified to teach in a course
approved by the Council:
| (a) |
General
Instructor Certification; and |
| (b) |
Specialized Instructor Certification. |
Any persons serving as a general/specialized instructor in a
basic course or other course approved by Council must submit application for
certification, in such form as the Council may require.
All instructors wishing to teach in a course approved by the
Council must be certified as an instructor unless otherwise is specified in
accordance with these rules.
To qualify for certification as an instructor under these
Rules, an applicant shall demonstrate competency to teach.
| (a) |
Competency shall be evaluated in terms of
three abilities, as follows:
| 1. |
possession of
requisite skills and knowledge; |
| 2. |
organization of skills and knowledge in a written form suitable for
teaching; |
| 3. |
demonstration of
effective presentation skills and knowledge in a classroom situation. |
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| (b) |
Competency with respect to
possession of requisite skills and knowledge is demonstrated when an applicant
provides suitable evidence of a high school diploma, or its recognized
equivalent, and direct experience. |
| (c) |
Competency with respect to organization
of requisite skills and knowledge is demonstrated when an applicant provides
suitable evidence of the following:
| 1. |
successful completion of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training
instructor course or its recognized equivalent; and |
| 2. |
academy director authorization for
certification. |
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| (d) |
Competency with respect to classroom presentation of requisite skills and
knowledge is demonstrated when an applicant provides suitable evidence of
one of the following:
| 1. |
successful completion of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training
instructor course; or |
| 2. |
successful completion of both written and performance examinations approved by
the Council in which teaching presentation skills and knowledge are
tested. |
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| (e) |
Suitable
evidence of applicant's competency in each of the three abilities (possession
of requisite skills, organization of skills and demonstration of effective
presentation) shall be reflected in an application form provided by the
Council. No applicant shall be certified as an instructor in accordance with
these Rules unless application is made in such form as the Council may
establish. |
Any persons serving as an instructor in the following subjects
must be certified in accordance with these Rules.
| (g) |
Master Resiliency Instructor. |
| (h) |
Resiliency Instructor. |
To qualify for certification as a specialized instructor under
these Rules, an applicant shall demonstrate competency to teach.
| (a) |
Competency shall be evaluated in terms of
the following:
| 1. |
successful completion of the
Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council instructor training course
or its recognized equivalent; and |
| 2. |
successful completion of designated
Council approved training in the subject of expertise. |
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| (b) |
Suitable evidence of applicant competency
shall be reflected in an application form provided by the Council. |
No applicant shall be certified as a General or Specialized
Instructor unless application is made in the form designated by Council and
submitted through a POST certified academy director or a State departmental
training officer.
Because of the inherent nature of certain professions or
particular skill levels achieved, certain individuals may be requested to
instruct. Such persons shall be designated as guest instructors and shall be
recognized by Council as such. Guest Instructor recognition shall be granted
only by the written request of the academy director or a professional criminal
justice association recognized by the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and
Training Council. No Georgia certified officer shall be recognized as a guest
instructor unless they have been awarded a "terminal degree" in the area of
expertise that they are requesting to instruct.
A "terminal degree" is defined as the highest degree available
in any given academic discipline.
Common examples of terminal degrees are Juris Doctorate (JD),
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Doctor of Medicine (MD).
POST shall have the sole determination in deeming an
individual's terminal degree as sufficient to instruct in any given subject
regardless of whether they hold a peace officer certification in the State of
Georgia.
The Council may withdraw or suspend the certification of any
instructor when it is determined that an instructor has:
| (a) |
Violated any portion of Georgia Code
35-8-7.1 (Authority of Council to refuse certificate to applicant or to
discipline certified peace officer or exempt peace officer; grounds;
restoration of certificate); |
| (b) |
exhibited gross or patterned physical or verbal abuse of students; |
| (c) |
consistently or grossly failed to meet
the standards of student performance objectives in approved lesson
plans; |
| (d) |
intentionally or
negligently endangered the safety of students or other instructors; |
| (e) |
failed to comply with the Rules of an
academy or Council approved association. |
The Chairman and Executive Director of the Council, if in
agreement, may, in an emergency situation, temporarily suspend the
certification of any instructor, pending a meeting of the full Council, when it
is determined that a meeting of the full Council will not be held for at least
thirty days and it is determined, after notice and an opportunity to be heard,
that an instructor has intentionally or negligently endangered the safety of
students or other instructors. Said suspension shall be effective only until
the next meeting of the full Council.
P.O.S.T. certified instructors may become senior and master
instructor trainers by teaching in the P.O.S.T. Instructor Training Course
(ITC).
| (a) |
Requirements for Senior
Instructor trainer certification are:
| 1. |
Submission of application by a General or Specialized Instructor, approved by
academy director or recognized state training organization; |
| 2. |
Observation of a Senior/Master Instructor
Trainer by applicant of a block of instruction designated in
application; |
| 3. |
Supervision of
applicant teaching the designated topic by a Senior/ Master Instructor
Trainer; |
| 4. |
Submission of
application/evaluation to P.O.S.T. Training Standards Division. |
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| (b) |
Requirements for achieving the
Master Instructor Trainer Certificate are:
| 1. |
Senior Instructor Trainer Certification; |
| 2. |
Accumulation of twenty (20) instructional
points obtained as follows:
| (i) |
Ten (10) of
the points by instructing in the ITC; one (1) point only per ITC: |
| (ii) |
Student lesson plan/presentation
evaluation; one (1) point per ITC. |
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| 3. |
If an instructor teaches and evaluated in
an ITC, he/she can only acquire one (1) point. An applicant may accumulate more
than ten (10) of the twenty (20) points by teaching; however, the applicant may
not claim more than ten (10) points earned from evaluations. |
| 4. |
Submission of application for Master
Instructor Trainer to P.O.S.T. Training Standards Division. |
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