Paddle Canada Clinics

Paddle Canada clinics offer certified Instructors the opportunity to develop and run skills clinics within the scope of their instructor certification level. The objective is to foster the development of creative programs that will fill perceived gaps, support existing programs, or meet demand for specific skill instruction.

Purpose

To provide opportunities for active instructors to develop programs that will contribute to the existing curriculum.

Build flexibility into the existing programming in order to easily respond to changing interest and demand of participants.

Introduce new program changes and present innovative teaching strategies and ideas.

Provide Instructors who offer clinics Paddle Canada insurance, when clinics are properly registered and reported.

Process and Policies

Clinic Instructors must be “active” and paid-up instructors with Paddle Canada at the level being taught to the clinic participants.

Subject matter must coincide with the certification level of the instructor offering the clinic (for example, a SUP Race clinic offered by a Flatwater 2 SUP Instructor or above, navigation clinic offered by a Sea Kayak Level 1 Instructor or above). Insurance is not valid if the instructor is teaching beyond their certification level.

Ratio of instructors to participants must be consistent with the level of skill being taught (for example, navigation skills taught by a Sea Kayak Level 1 instructor = 1:6).

Since clinics only contain a portion of the overall syllabus, they are not to be run on a pass/fail system. There is no certification awarded for attending a clinic.

Since clinics only contain a portion of the overall syllabus, they are not bound by the full course’s minimum course length.

Clinics may not include overnight components, regardless of certification level.

Instructors and participants need to follow the same rules and regulations of a regular sanctioned Paddle Canada course.