Florida fire instructor

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.