When you apply, we will guide you through the process with step-by-step instructions. Here is an overview:

1. Have a current provider completion card in the discipline(s) you wish to teach.

2. Complete and submit your instructor application and pay your $55 instructor application fee. (Pay directly to Heart and Stroke)

3. Take Core Instructor Training (online) ($35). (Pay directly to Heart and Stroke)

4. Purchase your instructor manual and related resources needed to teach in your discipline. (Pay directly to Heart and Stroke "SHOP" through Gilmore)

5. Register for, attend and successfully complete the instructor course for your selected discipline with Beats and Breaths Academy Ltd.. Instructor course fee vary $300 to $750 (Pay directly to Beats and Breaths Academy Ltd)

6. Successfully complete monitoring on a course by a Heart & Stroke-approved experienced instructor, instructor trainer or master instructor within six months of completing the instructor course.

7. Accept the relevant Instructor agreements.

8. Pay $75 annual instructor fee (pro-rated to activation date) to activate your instructor status. (Pay directly to Heart and Stroke)

To be an Instructor candidate, you should exemplify integrity, demonstrate strong ethics, communicate clearly, and model a dedication to quality of training. You must be at least 18 years old.

In addition, each discipline has unique prerequisites and qualifications.

Following successful completion of the instructor-level course, instructor candidates are required to be evaluated on their ability to plan and deliver a course. This process is called, “monitoring”. Monitoring is done under the mentorship of an existing instructor with eligible status. 

Working with a monitoring instructor*, candidates will be expected to:

• Actively participate in the planning and delivery of a course in their chosen discipline

• Actively participate in the evaluation of participants in this course

As an instructor candidate, you can request monitoring for any applicable course that's offering monitoring.

* Acceptable monitoring instructors include:

• Experienced instructor (Heart & Stroke approved), Instructor trainer or Master instructor

The cost to become an instructor varies by discipline and by factors related to rates charged by the instructor trainer or master instructor delivering the instructor course.

Heart & Stroke’s instructor fees as follows:

1. Application fee = $55 (Pay directly to Heart and Stroke)

2. Annual instructor fee = $75 (pro-rated to activation date) (Pay directly to Heart and Stroke)

3. Core Instructor Training = $35 (Pay directly to Heart and Stroke)

4. Course materials = variable by discipline (Pay directly to Heart and Stroke "SHOP" through Gilmore)

5. Instructor course fee vary $300 to $750 (Pay directly to Beats and Breaths Academy Ltd)

6. Monitoring is free with Beats and Breaths Academy Ltd. to students who complete the instructor course with us

Note:

Instructor course for Beats and Breaths Academy Ltd. may vary from regions and locations where the courses are offered and different course fee charged for BLS, ACLS and PALS instructor courses.