Our Teaching Methods

Our teaching methods include live and pre-recorded video instruction, self-practice, reading, small group activities, pair activities and one-to-one individual support, attention and assistance. These elements will ensure the greatest opportunity for you to learn and be ready for the ‘real world’ of Pilates.

Student Support

Breathe Education has a dedicated Student Success Team that helps to create the best learning atmosphere possible to assist you achieve your Qualification.

Our team will:

• Provide learning activities that replicate workplace experiences.
• Ensure we offer you individual support and advice.
• Encourage you to work at your own pace.
• Provide written learning material and illustrations to reinforce learning.

Our Student Success Team is available to discuss and support you with any concerns you may have during your studies with us. Feel free to talk with them about your adjustment to student life and any other problems that may be affecting your studies.

If you have special needs or circumstances that could impact your course, please inform the Student Success Team so that we may endeavour to implement strategies to support you.

If you feel that you or another student have been discriminated against or harassed, you should report this information to a staff member who you feel you can trust. This will initiate a complaint handling procedure that will be fair and transparent and will protect your rights. Alternatively, if you wish to report an instance of discrimination or harassment to an agency external to Breathe Education, you can contact the HREOC Complaints Info-line on 1300 656 419.

Attendance Requirements

The minimum time requirement for your enrolment is 21 weeks beginning in your Orientation week (Oweek). Each week, during the 21 weeks, you are required to attend a 90-minute lecture and a 90-minute tutorial at a minimum.

100% live tutorial attendance is required for the successful completion of your course. If you miss one tutorial, we will arrange a make-up class for you; If you miss further tutorials, you will be required to transfer to another course group. Please note that it is your responsibility to contact the Student Success Team at support@breathe.edu.au to reschedule a missed tutorial with another intake.

If you have not met the attendance requirements for your course, or you have missed two or more weeks of tutorials, you will be required to defer and fees may apply. Per student, only one deferral is allowed.

Your Progress

Throughout the course, your trainers will regularly give you feedback on what you’re doing well and what you need to improve. If you feel you may need extra support, please let us know. You can contact your trainers or the Student Success Team at any time throughout your course to check your course progress.

How We Communicate Changes in our Operation

From time to time, we change our policies, hours of operation, course content, and even the qualifications we offer.

We communicate important changes to all students via:

1. Your Slack group
2. Email at the address we have on file for you
3. SMS at the phone number we have on file for you

Assessment

Read our assessment policies here.

Logbook

Personal Pilates practice helps you build the habit that will continue throughout your teaching career. By observing, teaching, and physically doing Pilates over the duration of your course, becoming a confident and skilled Pilates Instructor is easily attainable.

Your logbook consists of two main components:

• Observation & Personal Practice (40 hours)
• Practice Teaching (40 hours)

You can start logging your hours from the moment you enrol and you have until your course deadline (12 months from first lecture) to complete and submit them.

Internationally Recognised Qualification

• Our Breathe Certification in Pilates is fully accredited and backed by the American Council on Exercise (ACE), you’ll receive a real qualification that is recognised and accepted around the world.
• Our Diploma of Clinical Pilates is the world’s only government accredited Clinical Pilates program, and sits within the Australian Qualifications Framework alongside school and university qualifications.

Issuance of Qualifications

On successful completion of all required units and once all course payments have been completed, you will be issued with a qualification. If you do not complete the entire course by the course deadline, you will be issued a Statement of Attainment for any individual units you successfully completed. Please note that your course must be paid in full before your qualification can be issued.

Student Satisfaction Survey

At the completion of your training program, you will be issued a Learner Engagement Survey. This is a consistent survey tool that is designed to collect feedback from students about their experience with an RTO and in undertaking an internationally recognised training.

This will be an opportunity for you to provide us with feedback on the course, the trainers and assessors, the course administration, the training facilities, the training activities, resources and materials and the assessment procedures. Your comments enable us to make sure that your expectations are being met and to improve our services.

Your completion and return of this survey is important to Breathe Education for our ongoing improvement of services and to enable us to report this information to our registering authority.

Record Maintenance

Accurate and up-to-date student personal records (including contact details, fee payments, attendance, assessment outcomes and qualifications issued) are kept by Breathe Education for a period of 30 years. We maintain systems for recording and archiving student enrolments, completion, assessment outcomes, grievances, qualifications and statements of attainment issued.

Our Continuous Improvement of Services

At Breathe Education, we aim to improve all the time. We have systems in place for monitoring all training operations. From time to time, you will be asked to complete a student feedback form. We look forward to reading your open and honest feedback and your ideas for how we can improve. Feel free to speak with your Trainer, the Training Manager, or the Student Success team at any time to provide feedback on your course.