EMSA 2800 - Emergency Services Instructor/ Coordinator

Objectives: The student will

1. Utilizes fair practices with regards to program enrollment, scheduling, completing, discipline, or dismissal.
2. Understand laws that apply to student enrollment, involvement, and completion of emergency services education.
3. Develop a proactive student handbook and syllabus that addresses fair practices in the delivery of education.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to employ multiple means of communication to deliver cognitive, psychomotor, and affective lessons.

Objectives: The student will

1. Practice communication as the most foundational tool used in education.
2. Understand the components of communication.
3. Utilize optimal methods for communication, as well as avoiding obstacles.
4. Be able to employ verbal, nonverbal, written, and other forms of communication to effectively deliver content and to assess student progress.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to understand current theories on the learning process.

Objectives: The student will

1. Learn current theories on the biological and psychological aspects of learning.
2. Each in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains.
3. Construct lessons that scaffold from the introductory to mastery level of education.
4. Embrace current theories to engage students and to make lessons salient.
5. Modify student behavior to comply with desired outcomes.
6. Communicate the enthusiasm for life‐long learning.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to strategically employ multiple teaching

Objectives: The student will

1. Categorize varied teaching and learning styles.
2. Determine the teacher‐candidate’s learning and teaching style as an exercise in metacognition.
3. Identify styles in students, and address their style to engage them.
4. Be able to assess student outcomes utilizing student learning style.

Outcome 5: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to develop an efficient and engaging lesson plan.

Objectives: The student will

1. List the components of the DOT developed lesson plan.
2. Implement activities that will strategically address the lesson content, the expected level of mastery, and the learning style of the student/class.
3. Learn how to prepare a lesson plan that may be utilized by other instructors, facilitators, presenters, or role‐players.

Outcome 6: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to develop and practice differing presentation skills.

Objectives: The student will

1. Differentiate between the traditional pedagogical approach and androgogical methods.
2. Recognize the preferred learning style of the adult learner.
3. Strategically employ a presentation skill that is appropriate and engaging for various contents, domains, and levels of mastery.

Outcome 7: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to assess the effectiveness and appropriateness of student learning, and to utilize that information in constant program improvement.

Objectives: The student will

1. Know in the formal and in formal manners of feedback.
2. Construct an assessment tool that is fair, valid, relevant, and reliable.
3. Know how to avoid test bias.
4. Evaluate the effectiveness of both the student’s efforts as well as the efficacy of the testing mechanism.
5. Utilize information gained from student assessments to improve and further develop the educational program.

Outcome 8: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to comply with all of the application and reporting processes for initial and continuing education programs with the appropriate regulatory agency.

Objectives: The student will

1. Attend required class sessions with representatives of relevant regulatory bodies.
2. Learn how to comply with various sponsorship, application, implementation, and reporting policies by the relevant regulatory bodies.
3. Perform any other requirements as outlined by relevant regulatory bodies.

Outcome 9: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to arrange for and perform student teaching as pursuant to the requirements of relevant regulatory bodies.

Objectives: The student will

1. Make contact with an existing emergency services instructor, (not associated with the current EMSA‐2800 class,) and develop a proposal for the performance of student teaching.
2. Develop a new class, utilizing strategies learned in EMSA‐2800, to strategically address content, expected mastery and target audience.
3. Receive and discuss feedback from mentoring instructor, and assuring that evaluation is appropriately delivered to the program.

1. Instruction on the pertinent issues.
2. Development of a defensible and proactive student handbook and syllabus.

Module 2: Communications.

1. Overview of the process of communication.
2. Employing varying methods to communicate the lesson.

Module 3: The Learning Environment.

1. Identifying learning and teaching styles.
2. The learning process.
3. Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Module 4: Building the lesson plan.

1. Identify the components of a lesson plan.
2. Relating a lesson plan to the targeted domain and depth of learning.

Module 5: Presentation skills.

1. Identifying presentation skills.
2. Practicing public speaking.

Module 6: Assessment.

1. Developing feedback from small lesson to program overview.
2. Identify strategies for writing a relevant, reliable, and valid te st.
3. Item analysis and program improvement.

Module 7: Initial and Continuing Education Programs (Required meeting with regulatory body representative.)

1. Forms and applications.
2. Other educational requi rements.

Module 8: Student Teaching (30 hours minimum.)