Instructor Candidate Training
Student Notes
Red Cross Mission = To improve the quality of human life; to enhance
self-reliance and concern for others; and to help people avoid, prepare for, and
cope with emergencies.
Instructor Responsibilities
- Plans to teach, conducts, and evaluates course(s).
- Evaluates participants' eligibility for certificates.
- Maintains course records and reports.
- Demonstrates qualities as a representative and role model.
Four
Steps in Instructor Training
- Prerequisites for instructor specialty course. (basic courses, age,
skills check, experience, permission by authorizing unit)
- Instructor Candidate Training course. (attending all sessions,
passing written test, participation in assignments)
- Instructor Specialty Course (course components and how to teach them,
administrative policies and procedures)
- Certification and authorization (confirmation that all requirements have
been met and endorsement by the authorizing unit to teach)
Definition of Learning = Learning is a process of change
through which people acquire new knowledge, skills, or attitudes as a result of
some type of study or experience. Learning occurs over time and should be
considered a lifelong process or experience.
Instructor can provide the right kind of learning environment but the student
must do the learning and must want to learn.
Four Concepts of Learning
- Motivation
- Association
- Repetition
- Senses
Student Characteristics that may affect learning:
- Education, reading ability, language
- Experiences
- Coordination, strength, size
- Attitude
- Health and physical fitness
Instructor Characteristics that
affect teaching ability:
- Good communication skills - active listener, articulate speaker, concise
- Knowledge of subject and learning theory
- A positive attitude - friendliness, enthusiasm, acceptance of others'
values
- Appropriate attire and professional appearance
- Patience and flexibility - helps you respond to individual learning
differences
- Professional behavior - punctual, reliable, giving best efforts
- Class management skills
Three Part of communication
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Types of Communication
- Verbal - spoken, written, sung
- Nonverbal - body language, pictures - posture, facial expressions,
gestures, movements
Instructor Functions
- Climate setting - establish atmosphere that enhances learning
- Assigning tasks - clearly stated or written, problem-solving, learning
experiences
- Bridging - relating one session to next, review, learn by association
- Intervening - individuals, group process, content, feedback
- Summarizing - emphasizes and review key points to reinforce learning by
repetition
Feedback - should be given as soon as possible after
an error occurs.
- Positive - verbal or nonverbal; encourages and reinforces
- Negative - does not provide correction or enhance learning
- Corrective - describes the error or behavior in nonjudgmental way; defines
how the error affects the results; describes the corrective action that needs
to be taken.
- Instructor provides the correction
- Instructor encourages the participant to provide correction.
- Instructor encourages the class to provide the correction.
Methods of Teaching Knowledge and Attitudes
- Lecturette
- Discussions
- Task groups
- Explanation
- Demonstration
- Practice
Methods for Teaching Motor Skills
- Drills
- Task Practice
- Station Practice
- Reciprocal practice
Breaking down a Skill
- Part-whole approach
- Progressive-part approach
- Whole-part-whole approach
Criteria for course completion
- Attendance
- Skill performance
- Passing written test
Skill performance Criteria
- Identify skills to be performed
- define the outcomes
- explain the grading or evaluation system
- use appropriate instrument or form to record observations