Community:PaxLair/Education and Training

PaxLair Education and Training is an important aspect to the town, its citizens, and its visitors. There are several programs to help people learn about PaxLair and also become familiar with how to live within the realm. Some classes are fairly basic while others are more advanced. PaxLair does not and cannot provide all desired education and training. There are additional means and methods to learn things through community-wide education and training. There is also a potential Education and Training Consortium that helps integrate schools, academies, and universities throughout New Britannia.

Classes
PaxLair classes are under construction and will be tested in the pre-Alpha Releases as best we can.

PaxLair Orientation

 * Objectives: The student will learn about the PaxLair government, establishments, culture, society, and citizen responsibilities.
 * Duration: 2 hours
 * Location: PaxLair School
 * Format: classroom instruction, town tour, and student exercise
 * Maximum class size: 10 students
 * Prerequisites: none
 * Student preparation: none
 * Advisories: none
 * Resources: books from the PaxLair Library
 * Examination: none
 * Completion award: none
 * Continuing education:
 * Reading at the PaxLair Library.
 * Involvement with PaxLair citizens and visitors.
 * Instructors: Winfield

Basic Role-playing

 * Objectives: The student will learn, observe, and practice various methods to role-play with others. Key concepts include immersion in the environment, backstory, thinking and knowing things from your character's perspective, and interacting with role-players and non-role-players.
 * Duration: 2 hours.
 * Location: PaxLair School
 * Format: classroom instruction, demonstrations, and student exercises
 * Maximum class size: 10 students
 * Prerequisites: Basic crafting skill.
 * Student preparation: Come with a book that describes your character in a few paragraphs, i.e., a little of a backstory. We will provide some backstory examples on this Wiki.
 * Advisories: You may choose to donate your book to the PaxLair Library. You may edit it after the class and donate it later.
 * Resources: books from the PaxLair Library.
 * Examination: none
 * Completion award: TBD
 * Continuing education:
 * Instructors: TBD and guest instructors

Basic House Decorations

 * Objectives: The student will learn about how house decorations work in New Britannia.
 * Duration: 2 hours + 1 week of access time to the practice house as a Kindred. Will have a house tour (and video) at the end of the design week.
 * Location: PaxLair School and the PaxLair Practice House
 * Format: classroom instruction, town tour, and student exercise
 * Maximum class size: 5 students
 * Prerequisites: Basic crafting skill.
 * Student preparation: Bring various resources or items for decorations (nothing extremely valuable).
 * Advisories: Do not decorate the practice house with any high-value or unique items. All students will have the ability to place and remove items with Kindred permission.  The house will be cleared of all items before the next class.  Students will be removed from house access after the class.  Students may take items they crafted or contributed during the class, or they can donate them to the PaxLair School for future classes.
 * Resources: books from the PaxLair Library, various items to use as decorations within the class, use of the PaxLair Practice House.
 * Examination: none
 * Completion award: Participate in the end-of-class tour where screen shots and a video is possibly made.
 * Continuing education:
 * Instructors:

PaxLair Guard Initial Training

 * Objectives: The student will learn about the PaxLair Guards, rules of engagement, basic tactics, combat skills, and expectations.
 * Duration: 2 hours
 * Location: PaxLair Barracks
 * Format: classroom instruction, demonstrations, field training.
 * Maximum class size: 6 students
 * Prerequisites: PaxLair Guard Recruit
 * Student preparation: none
 * Resources: books from the PaxLair Library, combat equipment from the PaxLair Armory.
 * Examination: none
 * Completion award: PaxLair Guard Trainee certificate
 * Continuing education:
 * PaxLair Guard Combat Training - PaxLair
 * Combat Exercises - in another town
 * Knight Training - in another town
 * Instructors: NANOC, Grimlar Mithrax

PaxLair Guard Combat Training

 * Objectives: The student will learn about the PaxLair Guards, rules of engagement, basic tactics, combat skills, and expectations.
 * Duration: 2 hours - may be conducted at the discretion of the Captain of the Guard.
 * Location: PaxLair Barracks
 * Format: at the discretion of the instructor
 * Maximum class size: PaxLair Guard roster
 * Prerequisites: PaxLair Guard Trainee or Guard
 * Student preparation: Guard uniform and equipment
 * Resources: as defined by the Instructor.
 * Examination: none
 * Completion award: continued service in the PaxLair Guard
 * Continuing education:
 * Combat Exercises - in another town
 * Knight Training - in another town
 * Instructors: NANOC

Staff
The education and training staff generally work at the PaxLair School and are devoted to providing superior education and training to citizens and visitors. The headmaster keeps the school and the town's education and training programs organized, recruits instructors and explorers, helps define classes, and integrates with the potential Education and Training Consortium.


 * Headmaster - TBD.
 * Instructors:
 * Grimlar Mithrax - armor, weapons, blacksmithing
 * NANOC - combat
 * Winfield - leadership, diplomacy
 * Explorers:
 * TBD

History
PaxLair Education and Training has its conceptual beginnings from Old Britannia where PaxLair had a classroom to teach magery and the finer points of combat. More training opportunities grew over time, particularly to help new citizens in Old Britannia. These ideas carry forward to New Britannia.

PaxLair's interest to become part of a larger consortium of education and training institutions stemmed from initial discussions with others of the community in April 2013.