As a Certified Instructor, you have several additional obligations as part of your certification and to recertify.

1. Reviewing Seat Checks
2. Course Teaching Hours

Upon completion of seat checks for recertification, the technician will submit the seat check(s) online. Encourage them to do so as soon as possible. You will be sent an automated email letting you know that you have seat checks to review.

The email is a courtesy and is not required for you to access pending seat checks in your Online Profile. Please be sure cps.certification@safekids.org is an approved sender.

To review seat checks submitted for your verification, log into your CPS Online Profile and click on the REVIEW/APPROVE SEAT CHECKS action item.

You will see three separate tables.

• TABLE 1: This table includes any seat checks that are pending your approval. Make any pass/fail designations needed and click SUBMIT.

  If you fail a seat check, you may chose to enter a short reason that will appear in the seat check result notification email. You can enter anything you'd like but remember they will see it as you enter it. One example of a reason might be, "I don't recall this event, please contact met at xxx...".

• TABLE 2: This table includes seat checks that you have already graded as passed or failed. You can change the pass/fail status for any of these seat checks.
• TABLE 3: The final table includes seat checks that you have already passed or failed and those that were automatically approved for individuals that have recertified. These cannot be changed, as the person's recertification may have been dependent upon that approval.

Please do click on the REVIEW/APPROVE SEAT CHECKS action item regularly to be sure there are no pending seat checks for you to review.

PLEASE NOTE: As of April 1, 2010, seat checks are NO LONGER automatically approved after 14 days. If no action is taken, they remain pending (ungraded).  Techs are encouraged to follow up with you directly if they are in a time crunch.

In addition to the previously mentioned requirements, you must also have a minimum of 20 hours of lecturing and hands-on teaching during the current two-year certification cycle, at least 10 of which must be earned teaching the Certification course. The additional hours may involve mentoring, teaching the Certification Renewal course or a combination of both.

NOTE: Teaching hours as an IC do not count toward recertification.

Your teaching hours are automatically tracked by the system when the Lead Instructor enters them during the course finalization process. Individual instructors are not responsible for inputting their own teaching hours.

Only Certification or Certification Renewal Course hours can count towards your teaching hours for recertification.

Teaching hours are based on the number of hours of lecture and participation in hands-on skills exercises and testing. Just being in the classroom does not qualify for teaching hours.

• Example 1: You were an instructor with no lecture time, but participated in eight hours of hands-on work. You earned eight teaching hours.
• Example 2: You were an instructor with five hours of lecture and 10 hours of hands-on work (includes 3 hours working with students at the check up). You earned 15 teaching hours.

As a mentor, you can earn up to 8 teaching hours. If you also teach or provide hands-on instruction (as above), please make sure you are also added to the course roster as an assistant instructor. These teaching hours are added separately.

Lead Instructors can get up to 10 hours for being a LI for a Certification Course. If you, as the LI, also teach or provide hands-on coursework (as above), please also add 10 to these teaching hours.