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The purpose of this document is to outline the steps required for an instructor applicant to become
authorized to teach IBM Education courses.
For each course there are requirements that follow a general pattern and consist of the following steps:
- Apply to become authorized to teach a course
- After being accepted, enable on the course, such as:
- Attending a class
- On-line training
- Other enablement activities, such as participating in
deployments, consultancy engagements, etc.
- Participation in an optional mentoring session for the course (as applicable)
- Co-teach the course (if required)
Once those requirements have been met, the instructor applicant becomes authorized to teach the course.
The following is an outline of the requirements to become authorized to teach an IBM Education course.
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Instructor applicants must first apply to teach for IBM Education.
Contact information (name, company, email address, phone number, location - City, State, Country)
needs to be provided.
Assessment of the prerequisite technical skills and prerequisite instructional background can be
gathered by face-to-face interview, phone interview or other electronic media (video recordings, etc.).
The purpose of the interview is to validate and demonstrate the credentials of the instructor applicant.
If an instructor applicant has a delivery history with IBM, previous course evaluations can be used to
fulfill this requirement.
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| Prerequisite Technical Skills |
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In order to be accepted to go through the program to become authorized to teach a course for IBM,
the instructor applicant must have the necessary technical background. This specific requirement
varies from course to course (for example, some IBM brands require product certification in order to
teach certain courses).
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| Prerequisite Instructional Background |
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To begin the process to become authorized to teach IBM courses, there must be documented demonstration
of instructional skills. This requirement can be satisfied in various ways:
Present an industry instructor certification, such as (but not limited to):
- Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+)
- Certified IBM Instructor (such as Lotus, WebSphere, Tivoli, Rational, Information Management)
If the instructor has not previously obtained an industry instructor certification, then a CTT+ certification
can be earned from CompTIA (www.comptia.org).
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| Required Documentation of previous technical training experience |
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An instructor applicant must provide documentation of technical training courses conducted during the
past 12 months, including the vendor name, class dates and number of students per class and a copy of the
student evaluation forms from the three (3) most recent classes.
IBM Education management may allow the assessment of the technical training skills by an authorized
IBM Education instructor.
The IBM Education team will review the information and determine if there is a business need for authorizing
additional instructors for the course. Once accepted by IBM Education management, the instructor applicant
will be allowed to proceed through the instructor authorization program.
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The instructor applicant can enable their technical skills by various methods.
One option is to attend the course as a student, participating in the lecture
and completing the labs.
Following the attendance at a course, it is expected that the instructor applicant
studies the course materials in-depth, completing ALL student exercises and labs in order
to be allowed to proceed in the authorization program.
An additional option for enablement is to complete on-line training available to acquire
the technical skills necessary to deliver the course.
Other common activities to build the necessary technical skills are to participate in
Train-the-Trainer (T3) sessions, deployment engagements and consultancy roles.
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After attending the course, if requested (by either the instructor applicant or by IBM Education
management) the instructor applicant will be scheduled to participate in an instructor mentoring
session with an authorized instructor from our IBM Education team. During this 1-2 hour remote
session, the IBM Education instructor will have an opportunity to ask questions about the courseware
to the instructor applicant. The IBM Education instructor will also share key insights about the
course and verify the instructor applicant is prepared to proceed to deliver a co-teach assignment
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Following the mentoring session, the instructor will co-teach the course with another authorized instructor,
who will be there to assist and observe.
While it is the intent that the instructor applicant doing the co-teach will take full responsibility to
teach all of the course material and support students in labs, it will be left to the co-teach team to decide
who will teach which parts of the class. The authorized instructor will be there to assist with units and labs
where the instructor applicant requires assistance.
Following the conclusion of the course, IBM Education management will review the course feedback and discuss
the instructor applicants performance with the authorized instructor.
Successful completion of the co-teach results in the instructor applicant becoming authorized to teach the course.
The following section describes additional requirements in order to maintain and re-certify as an IBM authorized
instructor to teach an IBM Education course.
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| Performance Standards and Compliance Guidelines |
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An IBM Instructor is required to maintain satisfactory scores as determined by the student evaluation feedback
survey (the survey given to the students at the conclusion of a class delivery). If an IBM Instructor is not
complying with the minimum set scores (as determined by the IBM Education group administering the program)
disciplinary action may be taken and recommendations will be communicated to the IBM Instructor to improve the
situation and IBM reserves the right to revoke an Instructors teaching priviledges.
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| Re-certification for maintaining authorization to teach IBM Education courses |
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Instructor performance will be monitored regularly and satisfactory performance is required to maintain
authorization to teach an IBM Education course. IBM Education management reserves the right to periodically
review and revoke teaching privileges based upon business feedback.
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| Upgrading to a new version of a course |
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When course materials are updated, instructors who are authorized to teach the previous version of the course,
and who have successfully taught the course, are given an "upgrade" path to become authorized to teach the new
version of the course. The specific upgrade process varies based upon the degree of change in the technology
and courseware from one version to the next.
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| To Apply to IBM Education |
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For an application to enroll in the IBM Instructor Authorization Program, send an e-mail to
certify@us.ibm.com.
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