- The Accreditation Programme aims to assess members who are seeking Accredited Guide status. The Programme is designed to ensure the establishment and maintenance of quality and the setting of high standards for the practice of battlefield guiding. The award of the Accredited Guild Badge indicates that the holder has successfully completed the Guild Education and Training Programme modules and has passed all the assessed assignment or validation modules of the Accreditation Programme.
- A battlefield guide may be anyone who uses historical locations and their attached histories to educate, teach or train their respective audiences. For the purposes of the final Validation module a candidate is expected to research and present a chosen battle to validators and an audience. A battle is a historical event that involves physical combat between human beings: and a “battlefield”: where a battle takes place on land, on or under the sea, in the air or a combination thereof.
- The Aims of the Programme are to:
• Be a recognised criterion of a professional body.
• Validate the skills of battlefield guides.
• Graduate Members to Accredited Members. - The Objectives of the Programme are to:
• Deliver a course of Education, Training and Validation which leads to a qualification of
recognised worth.
• Create standard-setting and quality-monitoring processes.
• Encourage the practice of sharing experience and expertise,
• Promote the Guild Badge as valuable and ‘an honour’. - The Accreditation Programme comprises the following modules:
- •Training Module A – Introduction to Battlefield Guiding
• Training Module B – Presentation Skills Workshop
• Training Module C – Understanding the Battlefield
• Training Module D – Walk and Museum Training Day
To be completed before:
• Assessed Module 1 – Planning a day tour of a Battlefield
• Assessed Module 2 – Guiding a walk
• Assessed Module 3 – Guiding a museum
• Assessed Module 4 – Presenting Artefacts and Monuments
• Assessed Module 5 – Problems on Tour
• Assessed Module 6 – Research Skills
• Assessed Module 7 – Visual Aids which could be used on a Battlefield
• Assessed Module 8 – A Handout to support Module 10
• Assessed Module 9 – A Webinar on the candidate’s Chosen Battle
• Assessed Module 10 – Stands on the battlefield for the Chosen Battle - For more information on the Accreditation Programme, please contact the Education Director in the first instance – education@gbg-international.com
