PC Teachers Register

 

List of Requirements

1. Letter requesting registration 2. Copy of Certificate 3. Resume 4. Comprehensive Course Outline 5. A daily course schedule 6. Details of student practical component 7. Payment of registration fee 8. Supportive letter

 

1. Letter requesting registration

as a Teacher of the Permaculture Design Certificate Course

 

I kindly request registration as a Teacher of the Permaculture Design Certificate Course.

 

I took my first PDC in 1994 in London after which I immediately started practicing permaculture and have been doing so full-time ever since, designing and managing many urban permaculture projects in London, starting to teach in 1998, when I was also awarded the diploma in PC design.

 

In 1999 I moved to La Palma, Canary Islands and changed to doing rural, local, bioregional, national and international PC projects, in 2003, once fully fluent in Spanish and having set up a node of the PC Academy in Spain (Nodo Espiral España) and started teaching in Spain and the Canary Islands, together with local permaculture colleagues.  

 

We are now a group of 8 teachers, 3 of which are trainee teachers from our own courses (about 15 PDCs to date).

 

Totally in support of there being a Registry for Permaculture Teachers, I have however been unaware of its existance until recently and hope to learn of its usefulness and explore how to make its existence more widely known in the European PC network.

 

Here is my application to the Teachers Register.

 

kind regards

 

Stefania Strega-Scoz

 

 

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2. Copy of Certificate

of successful completion of the Permaculture Design Certificate Course. (not necessary if you have a Diploma of Permaculture Design)

 

I have a Diploma in Permaculture Design, issued 1997 in England, assessed by Skye (Dip.Perm) and Simon Pratt (Dip.Perm) and a group of 12 permaculture colleagues.

 

 

 

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3. Resume

stating previous Education and Experience

 

See CV

 

 

 

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4. Comprehensive Course Outline

based on: PERMACULTURE: A Designers’ Manual by Bill Mollison. All chapters need to be covered

 

See Curriculum

 

 

5. A daily course schedule

based on 72 hour instruction. (12 six hour days and a final 13th half day session)

 

The course is flexible, as we adapt it to local and group needs but this is the overall pattern we work around:

 

15 days - can be in a block of 2 week bus more commonly split into 3days x 5weekends (5 modules)

 

comprising (more or less) of 12 days teaching + 3 days of practicals

 

each module is between 21 and 25 hours

 

making the full course between 105hours and 125hours

(this is counting time for practicals, videos, short breaks, discussions, etc.)

 

 

See  ModularCurriculum for full programme

 

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6. Details of student practical component

of Permaculture design work and assessment

 

During each module of 21-25hrs teaching, some 4 to 6 hrs are allocated to design practice.

 

A minimum of two designs are done during the course:

1) a personal design (normally students will work on a design of their home, farm, garden or business idea)

 

2) and also team design (typically in groups of 3 to 5 students, often a design of the site of the course, we encourage taking on a larger scale project, for eg. more recently this has included bioregional design)

 

Some examples of the practicals are detailed in the page of ModularCurriculum  (see end of each module) - note however that these change according to circumstances

 

 

 

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7. Payment of registration fee

that covers assessment and processing of your application. (Check www.tagari.com for current fees)

 

Please deduct from credit card as with the Practical Course (jan 2009)

 

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8. Supportive letter

from your Permaculture Teacher

 

Steve Read was my first PC teacher (supportive letter first entry in testimonials) and Andy Langford  the teacher of my second PDC (general reference from him is the second testimonial).  

 

 

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