Prescriptive Teaching Drizzle

Instructor Josh and bartender Eva at the Point bar.

Today in class I learned about teaching the Prescriptive Teaching method. This basically involves first evaluating a student about a subject and then teaching only the parts that the student doesn’t understand. Regarding PADI courses, this is done by having the student independently study a subject from a book. In class, the student is given a quiz and or their homework is graded. Whatever the student doesn’t gets wrong on either quiz or homework, the teacher goes over in class. This lessens potentially boring repetitive instruction of what the student already knows and allowing the time to be focused on what’s not clear.

In the pool, I had a confined water teaching presentation on doing a Fin Pivot with the Oral Inflator. I felt the presentation went fairly well. After the presentation, with Maziar, I decided to take the time to practice inflating a surface marker underwater and playing with some other skills. When I surfaced, I was slightly embarrassed to find someone watching me. She introduced herself as Caroline, an IDC student from Atlantis Resort in Sabang.

I was excited to meet someone else who’s been going through what I’ve been going through in the IDC. She was a very friendly and overall positive person. She suggested we meet up the day before our exam and have a beer or something so I can meet the other 2 doing the IDC. I enthusiastically agreed. Caroline didn’t stay long, and left by the time I could get my gear off.

James from Wetpixel.

I met up with Maziar at the Point bar for a few happy hour drinks. At the bar, I talked with Josh, Beverley, and Rebecca. Warren was there too, and introduced me to his new friend named Drizzle. She’s from Manila and has been singing at Broadway bar the last few nights. Nice girl.

Maziar and I wait for our food.

For dinner, Maziar and I went to the International European restaurant I had bad service at before. I decided to give it another try and Maziar really wanted to go there. Maziar ordered two hamburgers to go and one to eat in and I ordered a pasta dish. There was one person working at the restaurant playing both the waitress and chef. For some reason, the person working decided to cook and package the two to-go burgers first which took 30 minutes. Then, while Maziar’s to-go order was getting cold, cooked my dish and Maziar’s dine in burger. It took an hour to get our food and we were starving.

Drizzle (left) and her live band.

After dinner Maziar and I went to Broadway bar for a drink. Drizzle was singing with her band on stage. It seemed that the band was trying to sing as many songs as they could in their 2 hour set—one after another, with no break in between. All the songs were covers, videoke style, where the beat was produced from a synthesizer. Warren told me that the band plays for 2 hours, then has a half hour break, and then plays for a half hour. What’s the point? I wanted to stay longer but needed to go home and study.

When I got home, I had a hard time staying awake while trying to study. So, I decided to sleep and wake up early to study.


- jason