Peer Instructor Network
From Portland NET Wiki
2025.07.30 THIS POLICY IS ACTIVLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION; THIS PAGE IS NOT FINAL
Policy Summary: Peer Instructor Network (PIN)
The Peer Instructor Network (PIN) is a directory of specially-qualified NETs who are vetted to provide quality training on a variety of topics. Team Leaders (TLs) may contact them directly to arrange sessions for their teams.
| Effective date | NOT YET FINALIZED |
| Last revised | 2025.07.30 |
| Policy owner | PBEM Community Preparedness Team |
| Author(s) | Glenn C. Devitt (PBEM) |
Forms
| Relevant Forms | Updated |
|---|---|
| Team Leader Nomination Form | 2025.07.30 |
Why?
The goal is to remove another barrier where PBEM can be an unintentional impediment to accessing resources that TLs need to effectively develop their teams.
- Team Leaders – and only Team Leaders – will use an online form to nominate potential Peer Instructors (PIs) to teach specific topic on which they are a subject matter expert (SME).
- The nominee may be qualified based on professional accreditation, or personal experience, or research they have accomplished, etc. I’m not putting a lot of formal rules around credentials for this. Many useful NET topics do not have a formal path to SME status, and those that do generally will not be part of this informal network. (For example, Hazmat, CPR, and WFA.)
- You must have seen the nominee teach the session at least once or twice to local NETs (or at NET Camp) in order to attest that they are a good instructor. This is not a popularity contest.
- Quality control will be your and my shared responsibility. The most important thing to know is that you will be personally vouching to other TLs for 1) your nominee’s quality of information, and 2) your nominee’s effectiveness as an instructor. Not every SME is a good instructor, and not even the best instructor has the knowledge to teach every topic. I’m not throwing shade, I am simply recognizing that no one excels at everything, and teaching adults requires a particular skillset. I am looking to you to nominate people who hit the nexus, because a directory of poor Peer Instructors will not be useful to anyone.
- PBEM will evaluate the nominations and compile the online directory, including contact info for each Peer Instructor.
- TLs may then use that directory any time to reach out and plan trainings for your team – or better yet, plan a joint training with neighboring TLs.
- I do not have an ETA for publication. It will depend on the rate at which you nominate PIs. If I get crickets, then we won’t create a directory. If I get 400 nominations . . . well, then, a spambot is abusing the form and it will take a while to sort out. ;-)
