What To Consider When Choosing Your Floral Design School?

Now, you've decided you want to become a florist. Next, you need to enrol yourself into a floral design school.

What should you ask? What are the points to consider? Are my questions relevant?

You are not sure of what to ask. Well, this guide is help you make a better decision on how to choose a floral design school that is suitable to your needs.

When you go to inquire about the course, don't make decisions yet just by looking at the surrounding. What matters is their teaching methods. Whether they teach in a manner that is easy to understand and apply by you.

Apart from that, here are other points to consider :

• The school must be licensed under the State Commission. Many schools conduct classes but the certificates issued are not recognized. The syllabus does not fulfil the State Commission's requirements. These are actually illegal courses so to speak.

  If the school is licensed, the license number should appear on all teaching materials, forms and agreements.

• Check whether the school is accredited. The school may not be but the teacher should be accredited. Those with designated AIFD (American Institute of Floral Designers) are accreditated florists.

  To get this, the florist must earn 25 Continuing Education units for every 3 years for the first 21 years of her membership.

• Apart from being accredited, you must also know the teacher's trackrecord. Why is this important?Well, the teacher cannot teach you successful techniques if she has not been successful herself.

  Has she or he received any awards or recognition in her or his career? Or has she or he won any floral competition? Take these matters into consideration also.

• Ask the school, how many students will be in a class? If there are many, it is hard for the teacher to concentrateon your weaknesses, should you have any.

  If there are too few students, will the class be cancelled? You need to know this because you need to make plans, allocate time to study. What's the point if the class is cancelled after you've made all the arrangements, like accomodation and such?

• Is the school's staff helpful, If you are in difficulty or need some help, will they be able to help you? The staff should be supportive and try to help you as much as you can. If the staff you encounter is non-supportive, imagine how they conduct their floral business.

• Check out the school's facilities. Some schools provide lodging. So, it is easier to commute to the school. Some even provide transport to go to class. This is a plus point, too.

• The best way to get information about the school is to ask a former student. Talk to them about your expectations, your plans for the future and ask them for advice. I think you'll learn a lot more this way.

I hope you now have a better understanding on how to choose a floral design school that suits you. Only make a decision after you've considered all the plus points and the minus points.

Custom Search