10 competencies for the next generation of aviation instructors
1. 10 Competencies for the Next Generation of Aviation
Instructors 2014
On May 26th
, 2014, the 20 students of the "First International Advanced Course for the
New Generation of Aviation Instructors", working in teams, arrived by consensus to the
following competencies that should possess this professional, updated for 2014:
1. Able to communicate effectively.
2. Able to plan all the media, methodologies and instruction materials.
3. Charismatic person, practicing empathy.
4. Creative and capable of generating appropriate learning environments.
5. Ethical person, which always reflects his/her professional and personal integrity.
6. He/she encourages the transfer of knowledge and skills.
7. Researcher and innovator.
8. Refreshes and optimizes their competencies on a permanent basis.
9. Manages and correctly applies information and communication technologies (TIC).
10. Capable of exercising the transformative leadership to motivate and inspire his/her
students.
2. The trainers who participated in this work were the following: Humberto Patricio Caicedo
Lara and Luis Alejandro Zambrano Cisneros, both instructors of the Civil Aviation
Technical School in Quito, Ecuador; Mrs. Maria Regina Valiente Gaona, Academic
Director of the Instituto Nacional de Aviación Civil - INAC - Paraguay; Mrs. María Estela
de Armas Carmenate and Mrs. Sonia Ferrer Alvarado, Professor and Principal Instructor at
the Corporation of the Cuban Air Force; Mr. Fredy Pimentel Enciso, Manager of
SMS/Instruction of SOLAR CHARGE C. A. , Caracas, Venezuela.
In addition, Mario Medina Ríos and Fernando Bastidas Quispe, from CAIMM S. R. L. ;
Mr. Jorge Luis Rosado Leon, Meteorologist of Telecommunications and Meteorology S.A.
C ; Messrs. Luis Enrique Espinoza and Victor Montoya Chavez Castle, Aeronautical
Firefighters from Lima Airport Partners (LAP ); Messrs. Sady Beaumont Valdez and José
Hernández Mondragon, Air Navigation Inspectors at the Dirección General de Aeronáutica
Civil (DGAC) - Perú; and Messrs. Rodolfo Cárdenas Vicerrel, Jorge Garcia Villalobos,
Jorge Girón Higinio, Luis Alberto Leon Mackay, Manuel Malaga Rojas, Leonardo Orejuela
Barreda and Jorge Palma Gonzales, Instructors at CORPAC S.A.
Our commitment is to update these skills each time this important course is delivered, with
the purpose to update and consolidate the teaching skills of the participants, so that they are
able to provide efficient and effective training to the Next Generation of Aviation
Professionals (NGAP).
For reflection:
“It is excellent to win the 100 meters race but is much better to win the 110 hurdles, precisely
because we get it despite the obstacles”
William Aranda