Join our Food Protection Instructor Cadre:
The International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) is looking for experienced food protection professionals to become certified instructors for our National Food Protection Training Curriculum.
Individuals within the food protection community, current or former employees of government agencies, industry, or academia who have expertise in food protection are encouraged to apply. IFPTI is looking for food protection professionals from varying content areas including but not limited to: unprocessed, manufactured, retail, food, food safety programs, GAP, GMPs, import, food defense, dairy, feed, produce, epidemiology, shellfish, meat, egg, or any other related areas of food safety.
IFPTI’s Instructor Development Process:
1. Application:
Submit a New Instructor Application to become an instructor candidate. click here for new instructor application.
2. Selection:
The IFPTI review committee evaluates new instructor applications and makes selections based on identified priority courses and experience.
3. Training:
Selected instructor candidates must attend the Instructor Development Workshop (IDW). click here for more information.
4. Teaching Experience:
After successful completion of the Instructor Development Workshop the instructor candidate must fulfill three class experiences:
a. Attend a Course Specific Instructor Training (CSIT) or audit the course the candidate intends to teach (participate as a student).
b. Teaching Experience 1 - deliver 1-2 course modules.
c. Teaching Experience 2 - participate as an instructor.
d. Receive a successful independent evaluation (IFPTI contracted evaluator)
5. Qualified Instructor:
Before an instructor candidate becomes a qualified instructor, the IFPTI selection committee reviews all of the course evaluations from the lead instructor, the students, and an IFPTI-contracted evaluator. Remediation may be required based upon these or future evaluations. The instructor candidate will receive a certificate upon successful completion.
6. Instructor Assignment:
Qualified instructors will be assigned to deliver courses based on priority needs. The Data Management System (DMS) is used by IFPTI to assign courses and by instructors to remotely manage their availability and course assignments as well as evaluations.
7. Continual Quality Assessment:
To keep current, qualified instructors must attend the Instructor Development Conference (IDC) at least once every three years, where instructors are updated on the IFPTI processes, procedures, policies, course delivery methods, content areas, instructional methodology, and the FDA vision for the training system for the Integrated Food Safety System (IFSS). All certified instructors must be re-certified for each course they teach every three years.
Instructors will be evaluated on a continual basis through: a. Student evaluations (each delivery) b. Lead instructor evaluations (each delivery) c. IFPTI-contracted evaluator (annually)
For more information please contact instructor.development@ifpti.org or our office at 269-441-2951.