Profession
Calling that requires specialized knowledge and long, intense preparation.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
Prohibits employment practices that discriminate based on race, color, releigion, sex or national origin
Americans with Disabilities Act
Passed by Congress in 1991, this act banned discrimination against the disabled in employment and mandated easy access to all public and commerical buildings.
Privacy Act or Buckley Amendment
Prohibits invasion of a person's right to privacy. Restricts access to personal infromation.
Code
A body of laws arranged systematically usually pertaining to one subject area.
Standard
Criterion documents that are developed to serve as model of desired perfomance.
Code of ethics
Statement of behavior that is right and proper conduct for an individual functioning within an organization
Cone of learning
Students remember:
10 % of what they read
20% of what they hear
30% of what they see
50% of what they see and hear
70% of what they say or repeat
90% of what they say while doing what they are talking about
Androgogy
Educational term that refers to the art of teaching.
Baby Boomer
Born between 1946-64 idealistic
Gen X
Born between 1965-1980 Works independent
Gen Y
Born after 1980 optimistic
Domains of learning
Cognitive(knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (attitude)
Instructor planning
Preparing to teach and preparing students to learn
Class Contiunity
Tying each individual less plan together
Course Consistency
Presenting infromation that confroms to other informations, standards, and accepted practices
Logistics
Process of managing the scheduling of limited materials and equipment to meet the demands of training
Lesson Plan
a road map that guides the instructor through the topic and the instructional methods used to teach the topic
Keystoning
An effect caused by a projector that is not perpendicular to the sceen.
5 basic element to communicate
Sender, message, receier, feedback, and interference
3 elements of nonverbal communication
Body language, vocal tone and volume, personal appearance.
Words only account for _____ of the message
7%
5 Listening Component
Attending, understanding, remembering, evaluating, responding
Competency-based learning (CBL)
Training that emphasizes knowledge and skills that are required on the job.
4 step methid of instruction
Teaching based upon four steps: preparation, presentation, application, and evaluation
Distance learning
Generic term for instrcution that occurs when the student is away from the instructor
Self-directed learning
Method of instruction in which individual students work at their own pace to accomplish course objectives in any way they choose
Dyslexia
Difficulty reading
Dysgraphia
Difficulty writing
Dyscalculia
Difficulty calculating
Dyspraxia
Difficulty performing fin motor skills
LEAST
Method of progressive disciplinary actions
OSHA Occupaitonal Safety and Health Administration
Agency responsible for setting and enforcing workplace safety and health standards
NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Heatlh
Agency responsible for investigating, researching, and evaluating safety and health hazards in the workplace.
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
Agency responsible for promoting standardizaiton and measurement of various science and technologies
NFPA National Fire Protection Associaiton
Develops minimum safetyu standards and guidelines that many oranizations adopt
ANSI American National Standards Institute
Coordinates the private sector voluntary standardizaiton system
Liability
To be legally obligated or reponsible for an act or physical condition
Bias
Is an indication that the test puts one particular group at a disadvantage to another
Scoring
The act of identifying which answers are right and which are wrong
Grading
The act of assigning a value to the score.
Evaluation Feedback
Formal evaluations based on test results gives instructors the opportunity to use student errors as the basis for reinforcing information that was addressed on the test.
Report
Official accounts of an incident, response, or training event, either verbally or in writing.
NFPA 1041
Standard for Fire Service Instructor Professional Qualification
Cognitive Levels of learning
Knowledge, Comprehension, applicaiton, analysis, evaluation, synthesis
Psychomotor Levels of Learning
Observation, imitation, adaptation, performance and perfection
Affective Domain
Changes in attitude
Ancillary Components
Supplemental written materials that help students meet the learning objectives.
NFPA 1500
Standard on Fire Department Occupaitonal Safety and Health Programs
Capital Budget
Budget intended to fund large, one-time expenditures
Assessment
Process used to determine the knowledge, skills and abilities of a student by observation.
Reliablility
The consistency and accuracy of test measurements
Formative Test
Periodic test that typically measures improvement and give an instructor and students feedback on their learning progress during a couse rather than at the end.
Administrative Law
Type of law created by regulatory agencies
Validity
Term refers to the extent to which a test measures what it was designed to measure
Judiciary Law
The result of legal precedent or a judical decision that serves as rulse for future determinations in similar cases.