Course Materials
Students must have their own complete course package exclusively for their use during the course. We believe this guarantees that all students will have access to the study materials as needed during the course.
Observation, Practice Teaching, & Physical Review Requirements
A minimum number of hours of observation, practice teaching and physical review are required for all courses and should be completed between instructed sessions at any STOTT PILATES® facility. Additional training may be required to prepare for certification. Observation includes watching sessions taught by a STOTT PILATES® Certified Instructor or relevant STOTT PILATES® videos. Practice teaching hours can be fulfilled by instructing family, fellow students, friends or clients. A physical review means physically performing the exercises learned in class. Taking a class with a STOTT PILATES® Certified Instructor or working out with a video can qualify as physical review hours, and can be completed individually or with other students. Practice teaching and physical review hours must be logged outside of class time and submitted at the time of the practical exam.
Exam FAQs
Please click on the following link for everything you need to know about STOTT PILATES® certification exams: http://www.stottpilates.com/education/exams/index.html.
Auditing
We allow auditing of the following courses if a student has previously taken them: IMP, IR, AM, and AR. Please contact us if you are interested in auditing.
We do not however, allow auditing of any of the workshops we offer (CEC / introductory) as the main goal of the workshops is continuing education and not certification.
Absenteeism & Make-up Hours
If the student misses more than 5 hours they must make up the same amount of hours missed (1:1 ratio). If a student misses less than five hours of a course, they need to make up half the time in private review at their cost (2:1 ratio of hours missed to hours made up).
Make-up hours should be done in a timely manner especially if the missed hours occur in the middle of a course. (This allows students to cover material prerequisite to material taught upon returning to the course.)
Any make-up hours for Advanced courses are done on a 1:1 ratio due to the density of the course material and the expectation that it will take the same amount of time to teach one student as to teach a group.
Students have six months to make up any hours missed. If they exceed this timeline, the course is forfeited and the entire course must be retaken in order to examine and certify. Licensed Training Centers must inform us via the submitted class list that a student has not completed a course. A note will be made on the student’s file. A letter of completion will be sent to the student when the center has confirmed that the student has completed the remaining hours.
