Quote Originally Posted by IFjane View Post
Silver, I am VERY interested in the LCI - what details can you give me regarding the certification? I want to do it during the summer or next fall, if possible. (I am a member of LAB but haven't investigated much yet.)
Here's the link:

http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/e...n/seminars.php

You need to have completed the League's Road I course with a score of at least 90% in both the written exam and road test. The next step is to register for one of the LCI training seminars. The fee is $200, then they send you the pre-course packet, with all the various student and instructor manuals. At least a week or two prior to the seminar you have to turn in your written answers to the pre-seminar exam, and score at least 85% on that.

The LCI seminar is at least 21 clock hours of instruction, generally covered in two or three days over a weekend. The seminar is focused strictly on how to teach cycling; you're expected to have the course content down pretty well before you show up for the seminar (which is what the advance packet and the pre-seminar exam are for.) In addition to the classroom instruction on teaching methodology, nearly half the course is spent out on the bikes -- just like most of the League coursework. There are a couple of structured rides where your riding and vehicular cycling skills are evaluated, and every candidate must satisfactorily teach each one of the parking lot bike handling/hazard avoidance drills, graded by your trainer and your peers. You will also practice teach one of the subject modules in the Road I curriculum, graded by all your classmates and your trainer. And there's a night ride, where you learn to teach that part of the Road II and commuting courses. It was tough, but awesome. I did my seminar in Louisville, KY last year, and it was three days of bike immersion. I parked my truck at the hotel when I got there Thursday night, and didn't fool with it again until I started it up to go home at Monday early dawn. Everywhere we went, everything we did was on the bikes.

The LCI certification process is designed to produce competent cycling instructors, but it also gives you a very solid foundation and experience for working in bike advocacy and related projects like Safe Routes to School and Complete the Streets.

Now we just need pix of Silver in that pretty blue and yellow LCI jersey...

Tom
LCI #1853