For years, aviation safety training providers have considered instructor standardization as a way to ensure consistent training outcomes. However, instructor standardization — providing support to instructors to help them achieve conformity on best practices and norms, among other things — may be difficult to achieve, because it is not thoroughly codified in international regulations and not thoroughly explained in industry standards.
Before discussing instructor standardization, aviation consultant Sunjoo Advani, president of IDT-SCS, says, it is important to understand what the job of an instructor involves.
“The job can include developing the curricula, instructing students in a classroom or flight setting, and determining proficiency and progress of students,” he says. “It is the latter objective of determining the outcome that defines the success of the task, both in terms of the student and the instructor. This is where standards begin, really.”
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