NRA Instructor Personal Protection Outside The Home (IPPOTH)

Description

IPPOTH is a 16-hour course teaching the knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to organizing, promoting, and teaching the NRA PPOTH course. IPPOTH is presented in two parts, Basic Instructor Training (BIT) & discipline-specific instructor training. The course covers NRA policies & procedures, basic public speaking skills, confidence & competence, learning objectives, training methodology, teaching philosophy, use of training teams, training aids, organizing a course, budgeting, preparing to teach, evaluating & improving the performance of new shooters.

Instructor Candidates (IC) must be very experienced shooters that possess and demonstrate a solid background in firearm safety, handling skills, & shooting skills acquired through previous firearms training and/or shooting experience. IC must be intimately familiar with various handgun action types. IC demonstrates previous experience, organizational, & teaching skills via pre-course qualification, practical exercises in course, & instructor written exams. IC takes turns working in teams, teaching actual portions of the PPOTH course to other ICs role-playing as basic students. IC will receive the NRA Trainer’s Guide, IC Packet (lesson plans to prepare you to teach), and PPOTH student course packet.

Prerequisites – NRA Instructor Personal Protection In the Home (IPPITH) AND NRA Personal Protection Outside The Home (PPOTH)