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Now you can become a Certified Tea Master™ without ever leaving your home or office, all done using Skype, a free audio-visual telecommunications system you can download to your computer. The entire course is conducted one-on-one with a certfied tea master. The association's one-on-one 14-Week Tea Mastery Certification Course™ via Skype contains all of the educational requirements an individual needs for achieving the prestigious Certified Tea Master™ designation, along with the competence and confidence to serve as a tea master at a distinguished restaurant, hotel or tea court, or start one’s own successful enterprise.

Skype is software that allows users to make free audio-visual connections over the Internet to and from anywhere in the world. The association's development enables course registrants to use a computer webcam as well. The end result is that the registrant and innstructor can communicate just like a regular telephone call, but thanks to the cameras, they can see each other's every movement. It's all live and it's all free! It uses a technology called Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoiP), which is a free audio-visual system allowing a connection between a registrant's computer (at a location of his/her choice using a high-speed Internet connection) and the instructor's computer. It is truly amazing technology and simple to operate. It's literally like sitting across the same table with one another.

The two-part 14-Week Tea Mastery Certification Course™ via Skype includes:

Part 1: COMPREHENSIVE TEA MASTERY COURSE

Part 2: TEA MASTERY TASTING COURSE

The program is designed for and will benefit: Restaurant and tea business owners and managers, tea aficionados, industry suppliers, and others who wish to incorporate tea mastery skills into their daily lives or current profession, as well as anyone seriously interested in a career as a tea master.

The American Tea Masters Association utilizes the knowledge and talent of a Certified Tea Master™ for teaching this course. Each has been trained and certified by the association, and has established credentials and successful business experience in the tea industry.

You can be up and running as a tea master following 14 weeks of training with all the tools, confidence and support needed. The program has been designed to make sure that your first week of study is filled with all the information, experience, and support you need to start serving guests immediately.

The program consists of two parts:

Part 1. COMPREHENSIVE TEA MASTERY COURSE
During the Comprehensive Tea Mastery Course, you will be totally immersed in an accelerated learning and training environment, along with real-life practice sessions preparing and serving many different teas. You receive all the core skills, structures, taste-testing protocols, philosophy, and first-hand experience, all at one time. It's a great jump-start to put your intention into practice!

Part 2. TEA MASTERY TASTING COURSE
The Tea Mastery Tasting Course begins immediately after the conclusion of the Comprehensive Tea Mastery Course. This part of the training is focused on integrating and expanding what was learned during the first part. You will be working at home from the 150-page Tea Mastery Tasting Course Training Manual with 14 departments, each on a separate variety of tea. You will be provided with several different tea samples corresponding to each chapter. A different chapter is assigned each week.

You will taste-test and evaluate each chapter's tea samples according to the protocol learned in the first part of the course, and then asked to submit your evaluations in a special online form created for this purpose. You will meet with your Certified Tea Master™ once a week via Skype at a mutually agreeable time to discuss the specific teas in each department. This same procedure will be followed each week of the course.

Once completed, registrants will be asked to evaluate a "Mystery Tea" and take a final exam composed of 106 true-false and 4 essay questions. Graduates will be honored with the Certified Tea Master™ designation, a Certificate of Completion, and an engraved lapel pin.
 

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