1. Help, I’m a CTEP Instructor!
Your guide to surviving and serving in style
Jamie Douglas, C/LtCol, CAP

2. Overview
Before
During
After

3. Overview-Before Application Process I Got Accepted <scream>
Working As A Team (sometimes stinks)
What You Need Is…
Get It Done, Already!

4. Application Process Must be a CCSC graduate Info through email
Get that application in early
Start small

5. I Got Accepted <Scream>
Congratulations
Wait for further instructions
Conference call
Info
Contact

6. What You Need Is… Schedule
List of activities, assignments, and printouts
Graduation Requirements
Training Syllabus
Here’s who’s teaching what.

7. Working As A Team (Sometimes Stinks)
Strive to work together
Divide class into teams
Teach only what you know and enjoy
Inform lead instructor of handout/activities
Minimize differences
Problems? Talk to lead instructor

8. Flexibility
“Blessed are the flexible for they will never be bent out of shape.”
-Dr. Jay Strack, founder of Student Leadership University
Flexibility is key to teamwork
-Even temper
-Closed mouth
-Willingness to change plans

9. Get It Done, Already! Do not procrastinate! Quality, not quantity
Be engaging but don’t overdo it
Be creative
Interviews
Audience participation
Statistics
Images
Illustrations

10. Overview-During Student Arrival and Set Up Hello and Goodbye
Order in the Class!
The End of the World
Counseling
Teams
Grading
To Fail or Not To Fail
Senior Advisors

11. Student Arrival and Set Up
Arrive on time
Civilian, conservative clothes
When students arrive:
Check baggage
Take and report contraband items
Show them to their sleeping quarters
Keep them there or put them to work

12. Hello and Goodbye Hello Introduce instructors and purpose
Start professional:
Set the behavioral and expectations standard high
Stand up when answering questions
Clearly define graduation requirements
Student’s requirements
Goodbye
Congratulate them on a job well done
Be specific in praise
Encourage future activities-even for those who didn’t graduate
Feedback
Like/didn’t like
Improvements

13. Order in the Class! Set up during break Encourage communication
Teaching:
Move around
Make and maintain eye contact
Hear your talk
Classroom discipline:
Raise hands
Keep emotions under control
One discussion
Have a Plan B
Disruptions
You’re in charge: act like it!

14. The End of the World Expect it! Plan for the unplanned Have a Plan B
“If I fail to plan I plan to fail.” –Dr. Jay Strack
Have a Plan B
Extra activities
Don’t play the Blame Game
Control the situation
It’s not the end of the world!

15. Counseling
Goal: constructive criticism
Tone is key

16. Please, don’t drive the situation towards…

17. You really want the tone to be more of a…

18. Counseling cont. Crash course Counseling can be awkward
Be brief and specific
Be specific in behavioral corrections
Have two witnesses
Eye contact
Don’t threaten
Don’t let them talk back
Try to end on a positive note

19. Teams Split cadets into teams Each instructor is in charge of one team
Know cadets
Better feedback-more specific
Easier to keep up with cadets
Name basis
Easier essay grading
Delegate leadership
Know each other/make memories

20. Grading Essays: Don’t over assign Plan time to grade Can you:
During class
NOT during meals
Can you:
Read it
Understand it
Approve it
Don’t waste your time
Pass/Fail standard
Comment if you want to

21. Grading cont. Standard rubric Participation Attitude Leadership
Uniform

22. To Fail or Not To Fail Discuss together Basic question is Academic
Have they fulfilled the graduation requirements?
Academic
Attitude
Uniform
Participation
Discuss with Senior Mentor, Project Officer, and Commandant
Inform cadet
With Commandant, Project Officer, and Senior Advisor
Be specific
Show from graduation requirements
Eye contact
It’s not the end of the world
Encourage further participation

23. Senior Advisors Like TACs Here to help Keep them informed
Go for feedback
Try to find amazing Senior Advisors
You have to reach out

24. After Give out grading rubrics Have a time for feedback
Get them to think
How will they use this information?
Congratulate your cadets-be specific
Offer slides
Graduation!
Speak to the parents <it won’t kill you>

25. The more you explain it the more I don’t understand it
Questions?
The more you explain it the more I don’t understand it
-Mark Twain