• Understanding Basic Electronics
• Basic Radio
• The ARRL Handbook
  
   All of the above may be purchased from the ARRL online store.

These articles will help you get organized and prepare yourself to take on the task of teaching to a variety of audiences and age groups.

• Teacher’s Guide to Amateur Radio Instruction, by Peter Kemp, KZ1Z
• Insights on Connecting with Students from Randy Hatfield, AG6RH
• Joshua Long, KD8BVB, expresses his views on outreach to teens in his article, We Must Reach Them to Teach Them!

Resources including instructional kits and lesson plans developed for ARRL’s Education & Technology Program, ARRL's outreach program to bring ham radio into the classroom, are also available to licensing instructors.

The following instructional kits are availabe in the ARRL store. The instructor discount applies to purchases of these kits.

A Basic Electronics Course and Kit developed by Mark Spencer, WA8SME, is available to use for individual study or group instruction. You can download the course or purchase the already assembled kit.

A Wave Modulation Demonstration Board also developed by Mark Spencer used in combination with an projection capable oscillosocpe is very useful for demonstrating some of the foundational concepts in radio.  For more information, click here.  To purchase, click here.

 
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Exam practice tools will help your students identify areas where they need to do more preparation-- or ask for more instruction!-- before taking the exam

The latest editions of all of ARRL's study guides include a CD with  software that provides for organizing questions for practice by chapter, by question pool subelement, and flagging questions that are missed for a second review.  The software will also generate practice exams on the desktop or to download and print.

You may also direct your students to other shared exam practice resources developed by other hams.

Shared Instructional Resources and Study Guides

Links below will take you to instructional resources developed by radio amateurs that are being shared with the amateur radio community for use by others engaged in instruction and mentoring.

When looking for shared materials to support instruction for the General exam, be sure to note whether the materials have been updated to reference the new pool of questions for the General exam effective July 1, 2011.

• K3DIO’s Amateur Radio Resources for Instruction  updated for the Technician question pool effective July 1, 2010 and now for the General question pool effective July 1, 2011. Bob Bytheway also provides powerpoints for Extra class instruction. 
• N8KBR’s Amateur Radio License Study Guides and Instruction Resources    
• Licensing instruction for Public Safety Professionals from KC0BS and KC4WCG of Johnson County, KS ARES. Also a study guide for upgrading to General and a Guide for New Hams from K4OCD.
  
• AD7FO’s Extra Class study guide for the July 2012 question pool. Complete with calculations needed to respond to exam questions as well as supplementary explanations of some concepts. Instructors may request an MS Word version on CD.
• AD7FO's General Class study guide for the July 2011 question pool.
• AD7FO's Technician Class study guide for the July 2010 question pool
• KB6NU’s Self Study Guides for the Technician and General exams. Also useful for instruction with youth and small groups.
• NC4FB has developed a variety of resources to assist instruction and self-study.  These include flash cards for exam prep sessions, group discussions with remote instructor support features that students can join to discuss difficult questions and receive help from their instructor, and a question look-up feature to locate particular questions in the exam pools using text search. Materials have been updated to include the July 2011 General Class question pool.  He also offers  a "kid friendly" license self-study license program that is designed to be guided by a mentor.
• PowerPoints of Technician and General exam questions in question pool order for review from MicroHams
• Instructional materials for the Technician and General Class licenses including video clips demonstrating frequency and amplitude modulation.

Instructors have shared these ideas for demonstrating concepts in the licensing curriculum.

 
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Though Morse code requirements have been eliminated there is still strong interest in becoming proficient at CW operation. The ARRLInstructor's Manual includes lesson plans for instructing Morse code.

You can refer students who are interested in learning and practicing Morse code to our

online resource page

for basic instructions and practice tools.

Read the current newsletter or review past issues for ideas and stories of successful instructional activities.

Find the complete question pools used for FCC amateur radio license exams, and a list of questions that have been retracted since publication.

Recognize your students' achievements with a certificate!  You can download and print a Graduation Certificate to recognize completion of your class and a First Contact Award to recognize a first on-the-air contact.  Then you can personalize the form with your student(s)' name(s).  If you have too many awards to complete by hand, contact us for a template you can use with Word Mail Merge to personalize your certificates using your home printer.

Or you can order a Graduation Kit from the ARRL Education Services office.  Graduation Kits include copies of the Graduation Certificate, First Contact Award, a color band chart and Worked All States (WAS) map, along with an ARRL membership invitation.  Use this online form to order a Graduation Kit. Please provide at least 2 weeks advance notice.

Make sure your students get started right! Review this universal, international guide to operating ethics and operating procedures for all radio amateurs. 

The powerpoint version can be found here.
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Fred Benson, NC4FB provides some resources and tips for instructing visually impaired and ADD candidates.

An instructional resource guide to working with students with special needs, by Pete Kemp KZ1Z

Use the following flyer (black-and-white) or (color) to advertise your Ham Radio Class.  Simply download the flyer to your Word Processing program and add your information. 

This is a new volume from ARRL author, Steve Ford WB8IMY that provides valuable information for new radio amateurs.  Instructors may want to incorporate some of this material in licensing classroom curriculum or provide it as part of a follow up class after students receive their license. Available from the ARRL online store.

David Haycock KI6AWR has developed a curriculum that is focused on practical skills to get new licensees comfortable with getting on the air. He has shared his

with us. The syllabus walks through the topics of simplex and repeaters, programming radios and simplex and repeater protocols.  Students are also required to participate in a weekly net.

A cross-reference between the current General question pool released in 2007 and the new one released in 2011 to be effective July 1, 2011.
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A cross-reference between the current Technician question pool released in 2006 and the current one released in February 2010, which will be in effect July 1, 2010

You can direct your students to these tutorials for review of math concepts needed for amateur radio license exam preparation.
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These graphics and images are the property of the ARRL, but may be used by instructors for the purpose of classroom license instruction with appropriate attribution given to ARRL as the source. 

Please review the Copyright and Terms of Use.

If you have trouble downloading the zipped file, please contact ARRL Education Services at ead@arrl.org to request a CD copy.

 
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These graphics and images are the property of the ARRL, but may be used by instructors for the purpose of classroom license instruction with appropriate attribution given to ARRL as the source.  Please review the Copyright and Terms of Use. The complete file is 13Mb.  If you have trouble downloading the file, please contact ARRL Education Services at ead@arrl.org to request a CD copy.
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A cross-reference between the current Extra question pool released in 2008 and the new one released in 2012 to be effective July 1, 2012.
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