Joel Rosenberg
It would demonstrate the ability to train other folks on how to give effective instruction. Is every certified firearms instructor qualified to teach others how to be a certified firearms instructor?
Cashing In on Conceal and Carry, Part 2 1078Nope. Then again, Olson is a tenured professor -- hard to imagine he doesn't know how to teach. You'll shortly be able to, by taking out a copy at the Minneapolis Public Library, if you'd...
I haven't read your book, so I have no basis to judge its quality. Nice to hear that it is selling well, but yhe acceptance of your book in the marketplace is tangential to my point. Olson apparently self-appointed himself (in MN statute, as well as within his own company) as the Counselor-Certifier of instructors for AAFCI. Yet his biographical sketch suggests that he hasn't been certified to train instructors by any other organization. Where is the oversight?
Hold on a minute, aren't certification and validation two very separate functions carried out by the BCA?
The BCA validates the status of instructors who have been certified by one of the six groups approved to certify instructors under the MPPA. Validation only requires a certificate from one of the six certified training groups. This is basically a record keeping function.
The BCA (specifically the BCA Training and Development Section) is also one of the six groups mentioned in the MPPA statue who can certify instructors. Are you suggesting that the BCA Training and Development Section doesn't have standards for certifying instructors?
It appears that standards for BCA validation are already in place. They have to accept certification from any of the six groups mentioned in the MPPA.
So, reading between the lines, the AAFCI has no standardized test scores or minimum requirements for the successful completion of the AAFCI instructors' course?
-Jim