NSC Sailing School - Windsurfing Instructor Questionnaire

1. What instructor position(s) are you interested in at the Nepean Sailing Club?
   
   
2. What is your current CYA instructor level? When did you obtain this level and will you be acquiring another level in the spring?
   
   
3. State the background of your experience teaching windsurfing, including the number of years you have taught, the levels you have taught, the age range of the students you have taught and what types of boards were used?
   
   
4. List your roles and responsibilities from your past teaching experience including any outside of teaching (boat maintenance, site maintenance, etc.).
   
   
5. Outside of teaching windsurfing, do you have any other teaching experience, experience dealing with children in a supervision or leadership role, or other experience that would lend itself to teaching sailing? Please state all the details.
   
   
6. What is the extent of your windsurfing/racing experience, starting from your learn-to-sail levels?
   
   
1. How long have you been windsurfing?
2. What types of boards have you sailed?
3. How much sailing have you done outside of your learn-to-sail levels?
4. Do you race? How much, at what level and in what types of boards?
5. List any regatta results of significance.
6. How much windsurfing/racing do you plan to do this summer?
   
   

7. Do you have any sailing experience? If so please explain to what degree.
   
   
8. How would you promote and develop youth racing at all levels; instill a love for the sport in the students; and encourage the progression to higher learn-to-sail levels?
   
   
9. In each learn-to-sail level there is a certain amount of on-water training that is needed to develop the required sailing skills for that level, as well as a certain amount of theory that needs to be taught. Sate your philosophy on how much time you would allot to both theory and windsurfing; how you would go about planning when to do either theory or windsurfing and what factors this would depend on.
   
   
10. What is experience and knowledge in board repair? What are you capable of doing and how would you rate your skills?
    
    
11. How would maintain a high level of board maintenance by making sure boats are promptly and properly fixed? How would you minimize equipment failure?
    
    

12. How do you see windsurfing in your future?
    
    
13. How would the Sailing School of the Nepean Sailing Club benefit by having you as an instructor?
    
    
14. Do you have any questions or anything else you would like to add?