Re: [AISdiscuss] JT Handbook Item#2, Plus

[John I Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>]

I guess a flip side to this is that when you are the instructor (or at 
least when I am), I review the material and what I need to cover. I 
have to make up a test. All that brings back the important aspects of 
being a garden judge. Sort of self training.

And yes I think it is important to get "continuation" training from 
others and not all credit for garden training should be from being an 
instructor.

John

On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:25 AM, William Plotner wrote:

>    "Keep in mind that all awards voted by AIS judges are garden 
> awards."
> First this statement is not entirely true as EC awards for seedlings at
> shows are also voted upon by judges.
>
> My understanding of the two hour in garden training is that it is an 
> outdoor
> in garden classroom with a written test at the end and that this is to 
> help
> Judges maintain their working knowledge of judging Irisin the garden.  
>  To
> allow someone to skip this with a one on one training session seems to 
> make
> the process unreliable.
>
> I believe giving in garden taining to an aprentence or student judge 
> is and
> should be a privelage and never used to avoid our own training.  We 
> should
> maintain standards that are equal for all voting judges.
>
> There is my 2" worth.
>
> All My Best
>
> Will
>
>
>
>  Item 2.   Required training in the garden.  Keep in mind that all 
> awards
>  voted by AIS judges are garden awards.   Current requirements are 
> that each
>  apprentice judge must certify that he/she has received two, two-hour,
>  one-on-one
>  tutoring sessions with an accredited tutor (currently that would be 
> Garden,
>  Active Master, Emeritus). Current requirements state "When an Active 
> Master
>  Judge tutors an apprentice judge, the apprentice receives training 
> credit,
> the
> active master judge does not."  Is this logical in light of the more 
> recent
>  requirement that each garden judge must earn and certify two (2) 
> hours of
>  in-garden training during each 3-year period and that each Active 
> Master
> judge
>  must
>  earn and certify one (1) hour of in-garden training each 3-year 
> period?
> This
>  prohibition of the Active Master tutor receiving credit may be 
> logical for
>  Exhibition tutoring, but is it logical for one-on-one garden training?
>       This should give everyone something to think about when you're 
> going
> to
>  sleep at night -- I know none of us has any time during the frantic 
> days of
>  April.
>
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