Some black belts in the American Martial Arts Institiute may choose to take on some additional responsibilities and as a result are certified every two years in the teaching of the American Eagle Style.

If you earn your black belt before entering the instructor's program, you are required to do a minimum of a six-month internship. The instructors patch is a blue background with white and red lettering. From a distance the blue background instructor's patch is easy to see and recognize as an instructor.

• Learning to workout on their own for regular fitness and technique skills.
  
• There is the option to attend an instructor's class once a month. These classes are held once a month at each of the three main locations. The class is one-hour in length. These one-hour classes are not to teach the instructors how to teach, but rather this is a class in which the instructors workout and train just as the students they teach with the full format of the class.
  
• Every other month there is a staff meeting for instructors which includes class teaching assignments for the entire school plus the learning of new methods of teaching and areas that are being added or enhanced in the style. This meeting may last two hours and allows for questions and input from the instructors.
  
• The instructors are allowed to use the school facilities at any time and can obtain a key to any of the main locations. Fitness equipment exists in the main location for instructors' use only.
  

Instructors wear the instructor's patch on a black top. They have students directly responsible to them and work directly with Grand Master Crandall regarding these students and their development and testings. Instructors are certified every two years in their instructor status of the American Eagle Style.

NOTE:

As of 1998 only black belts are permitted to instruct in this school. This is possible because of the large active staff that exists in this school.