"There are many accusations you could level at the Australian flight training community, but the most damning ones in my book are that we spend very little effort teaching people how to teach, and we pay almost no regard to recruiting the next generation of instructors and helping them to become better than we were.
It's been that way for years, and I don't see anyone anywhere in authority doing anything whatsoever to improve things."
I agree. It's ridiculous that there aren't higher qualifications to teach both theory and practical. A two day PMI course is usually done by the CFI, who often knows absolutely nothing more about teaching or learning than what they received in their PMI course 20+ years earlier.
And what is with the crappy Grade 1 upgrade 20 question CASA exam???
What a joke!! It's laughable!!
Although I've got to admit that there aren't any decent texts on flying instructing either. The Jepperson book is ok and there is some stuff in that NZ CAA flight instructor manual that they publish online...but that's about it.