Re: FW: judging iris

> Region 17 has similar problems with distance.  It is difficult for someone
> in Austin to get up here to Lubbock for a JT class or vice versa.  Our
exams
> are graded so we would have to handle that, but, I know the online courses
> have to handle grading, so I am sure we could too.  I don't think you
could
> supplant the one on one tutoring with online training but maybe, the
judges
> training classes could be done 50% online and 50% in person.
     I agree, one on one is valuable and can not be replaced.   AIS and
Regions could also have training materials made up and available to
instructors for garden training, I think this would help.   This would be
like having tutorial texbooks.  It would be a way to assist some instructors
which don't have access to prior tests and could assist them with
preparation in order to do training, either one on one, or group.

> One other point is that you are required to attend two regional meetings
here.  If you
> attend the two regionals required, then getting the 6 hours of classroom
> training is easy because there is always a three hour JT at our regionals.
   We don't require attendance at regionals, but I think that is generally
how people become interested and sign up, and we usually always have JT
training at our regionals.   Also, for about ten years, we've been doing a 5
hours, 2 session training seminar, which always brings in a good speaker,
but would you believe, our last JT seminar held in January, which had the
highest attendance in years, had only 4 students attend?

> The second thing we do is set up a day of training.  This year we have a
candidate in this region from Amarillo.  She is coming in to our garden
during median/AB bloom time.  I will tutor her, then pass her on to Vernon
> and then she has contacted a third judge here in town to give her some
> further training her in the garden.  Because we have a wide variety of
> things here at the garden she can get several hours of "other than TB's"
at
> one session.  >
> Dana Brown
   This is a good idea, I'll mention it to our current JT chair.   For our
large region, there is so much follow-up work to ensure that all of our
judges are on track and current in their training, that anything that can
help with efficiency is great.
Kitty

Kitty Loberg
Northern Calif.
AIS Region 14 Treasurer
AIS Region 14 Electronic Services Chair
AIS Region 14 2004 Convention Treasurer
AIS Region 14 Past Judges' Training Chair
AIS Region 14 Past RVP
AIS, TBIS, SSI, SJI
Redwood Iris Society President

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