Training Meeting at Caroline's house
30 November 2011
Present: Bill W, Ryan, Caroline, Senior, Chicken, Margery, Chris T, Mel, Dave
On phone: Natasha, Vinny
Key Training Roles & Who's Responsible
Overall Training Coordinator: Bill W.
Basic Training Coordinator: Bill W.
Trainee Recruitment Coordinator: Ryan
Trainee Selection Coordinator: Natasha
Individual Mentor Coordinator: Caroline
Head On-river Trainer: BT1-3 Bill W., BT4 Mel
Basic Training Classroom Session Coordinator: Mel
Advanced Basic Training Coordinator: ?, or Bill W.if no one else volunteers
Instructor Training Coordinator: Chicken
Beyond Basics Training Coordinator: Chicken
Advanced Training Coordinator: ?, or Bill W, if no one else volunteers
Swift Water Rescue Training Coordinators: Mel & Mai
Basic First Aid & CPR Training Coordinator: Mel
Flat Water Training Coordinator: Ryan
Training Calendar 2012 & Who's Responsible
January 15 Last year's trainees verbal opt-in for 2012 basic or advanced basic training due - Bill W.
February 1 New Trainee applications due - Ryan & Natasha
February 25 New Trainee interview/selection - Natasha
February 29 Instructor training classroom 1 - Chicken
March 3 First aid & CPR (all trainees & volunteers welcome) - Mel
March 7 Instructor training classroom 2 - Chicken
March 10-11 Tune-up & Instructor training - Chicken (new trainees invited but not required to attend)
March 14 Classroom 1 - Mel
March 17 Flat Water * - Ryan
March 18 Fun trip
March 21 Classroom 2 - Mel
March 24-25 BT1 - TL: Margery
Mar 31-Apr 1 BT2 - TL: Ryan
April 7-8 Beyond Basics * - Chicken
April 11 Classroom 3 - Mel
April 14-15 BT3 - TL: ?
April 21-22 BT4 - TL: Mel
April 28-29 Fun/ Advanced training - ?, or Bill W. if no one else volunteers**
May 5-6 Beyond Basics / Fun Advanced training * - Margery
May 12-13 SWR training - Mel/Mai
May 19-20 First participant trip
May 23 Classroom 4 - Mel
May 26-27 Participant trip - TL: Stan
* indicates non BT river trips available for advanced basic training (scheduled dates & trainees TBD)
** Past years we rafted 2 new rivers in one weekend, e.g. Yuba & NF American, North & Middle Forks American, T & Merced, etc.
Review of Basic Training schedule & objectives (curriculum)- by unanimous consent of the training committee present:
- No requirement for basic trainees to take SWR course
- 4 classroom sessions objectives as described in Mel's draft, moved managing fear to classroom 3, renamed orientation as classroom 1
- Classroom sessions scheduled for Wednesdays
- Keep individual mentor program for trainees
- Keep tribe mentor program
- Include quizzes of reading material during classroom sessions
Training budget
- Instructor Training: shared cost trips, moderate printing costs
- Flat Water Training: $150-200 requested (not permitted to charge volunteers $$ to use Shadow Cliffs)
- Basic Training - shared cost trips, ask Bill about materials & other costs
- Beyond Basic Training: shared cost trips , minimal printing costs
- Advanced Training/fun/new rivers scouting trips: shared cost trips
May have financial need scholarships for shared cost trainings
Issues raised, actions to address them (& who's responsible)
1. Concerns about reinforcing unwrap skills
Action: Include flip management, wrap management skills practice in
Basic Training (Bill)
Beyond Basic training (Chicken)
Advanced training (Bill)
River meetings (Chris?)
2. Travel demands of classroom sessions for out-of-Bay-Area trainees
Action: Include technical means to transmit classroom training materials/ experience to those not attending the class in person
Examples: Skype, video, and/or web conferencing, powerpoint presentations of training materials (Mel)
3. Division of labor between head trainer and trip leaders on training trips
Head trainers will coordinate training activities for the weekend
Trip leaders will recruit trainers, river mom, happy paddlers, and coordinate as needed with head trainer
4. There are many, many tasks & decisions involved in training. What's our DRACI/ responsibility matrix for these activities?
Action: Mel will circulate a draft matrix with many of the tasks identified, for us (all training committee members) to edit & contribute to
Other training info
- Bill W reports that Bill Deitchman of the CA States Park says ICO can use the take-out at Salmon Falls or Skunk Hollow, even if the gates aren't open yet.
- Currently we estimate training about 5 returning trainees from last year, and about 7 new trainees. Of these, maybe 4 may be eligible for advanced basic training.
- 'Fun' or Advanced Training trips are for everyone in ICO to go boating together and make friends with a new river (or revisit an old friend). Trainees are invited along but they are not required to attend.
Additional issues to address & who's responsible
- Figure out how many returning trainees want basic or advanced basic training, and how many new trainees we will accept (Bill W.)
- Find trip leaders for BT3, Tune-up trip, fun trip (Bill W.)
- Find trainers to coordinate Advanced Training, Advanced Basic Training (Bill W.)
- Recruit Beyond Basics trainees (Chicken)
- Trip Leader Training, schedule & content (Mel?)
- After approval, put training calendar on 2012 ICO Calendar (Ryan?)