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Instructor Book Flashcards

1
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What is the ability to view the learning environment from the students’ perspective?

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sensitivity

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2
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What act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin?

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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act

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What prohibits invasion of a person’s right to privacy?

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Privacy Act or Buckley Amendment

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What is the first step toward creating an ethical culture?

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Creating an ethics program

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Sensory-Stimulus Theory?

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There is a lifelong reliance on the five senses as the primary tool set for learning

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According to the cone of learning in what way do humans retain the most knowledge?

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90% of what they say while doing what they are talking about

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Andragogy?

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The art of teaching adults

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When do adults learn best?

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When they are allowed to exercise skills

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Primacy assumes?

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The first of a series of learned acts would be remembered better than the others

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10
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What are the three domains of learning?

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Cognitive: knowledge
Psychomotor: skills
Affective: Attitude

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Instructional Strategies: Sequential or Linear

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Using a step by step, orderly thinking process that has both a beginning and an end

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Instructional Strategies: Abstract or Symbolic

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Recognizing common qualities in similar but different experiences.

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Instructional Strategies: Concrete or Real Objects or Items

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Preferring to manage items and work with facts instead of imagining outcomes or the feel of something

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Instructional Strategies: Global or Holistic

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seeing the whole picture and forming relationships between concepts, events or things.

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15
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What is the best way to present an organized presentation?

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Practice the presentation

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Class Continuity?

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Principle of instruction that states tat all information throughout a course should be presented in a logical, understandable pattern.

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Class Consistency?

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Principle of instruction that states that information throughout a course should have the same level of accuracy, be presented with the same equipment and training aids, and maintain a similar level of learning

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Learning Outcome?

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Statement that broadly specifies what students will know or be able to do once learning is complete

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19
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What should each learning objective contain?

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An action and either a knowledge or skill

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20
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What are the three critical components of Job Performance Requirements?

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1-Task to be performed
2-Tools, equipment, or materials required to perform and complete the task
3-Expected performance outcome

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21
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What is the difference between a lesson outline and a lesson plan?

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Outline is a basic roadmap designed to lead students through a single lesson, while a lesson plan is usually developed in relation to a larger course or curriculum

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22
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Public Domain?

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Works published before 1923 are no longer covered by any copyright ownership

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23
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Fair Use?

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Grants the privilege of copying materials to persons other than the owner of the copyright, without consent, when the material is used in a reasonable manner

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Model Release?

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Legal document that grants permission to use a person’s image or voice in photos or recordings

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25
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What is the easiest, most frequently used and more versatile nonprojection-type equipment?

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A marker board

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26
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Keystoning

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Effect caused by a projector that is not perpendicular to the screen, resulting in a distorted image that is wider at the top than at the bottom

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27
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When showing a video when should you turn the TV on/off?

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Turn on after starting the video and off before stopping the video

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28
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Do not use a video that takes up more than?

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1/2 the class session

29
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Interpersonal Communication in the classroom consists of the following five elements:

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  • Sender (instructor)
  • Message (the lesson)
  • Receiver (student)
  • Feedback to the sender
  • Interference
30
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In order for communication to be effective, both the sender and receiver must agree on?

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Its purpose

31
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The five general purposes for interpersonal communication are:

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  • Learning
  • Relating
  • Influencing
  • Playing
  • Helping
32
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Words in a message only account for what percentage of the communication?

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7%

33
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Non verbal communication transmits what percentage of the message and how is it broken up?

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93%–55% body language and 38% vocal tone and inflection

34
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Non Verbal Communication consists of the following elements:

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  • body language
  • vocal tone and volume
  • personal appearance
35
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Listening constitutes from ___ to ____ % of a persons average day?

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45-53%

36
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When in the classroom the students spend ____ to ____ percent of class time listening to the instructor, other students or audiovisual presentations.

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50-75%

37
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Listening Component-Attending:

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focusing on the speaker while ignoring any other distractions

38
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Listening Component-Understanding

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decoding the message and assigning meaning to it

39
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Listening Component-Remembering

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retaining information in short term and then long term memory

40
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Listening Component-Evaluating

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critically analyzing information to determine how accurate it is, or to separate fact from opinion

41
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Listening Component-Responding

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indicating to the sender that the message or information has been understood or requires more explanation

42
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Competency-Based Learning

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training that emphasizes knowledge and skills that are required on the job

43
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Mastery approach to teaching is also referred to as:

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Competency-based learning–requires that the students successfully master the learning objectives or outcomes of the lesson or course.

44
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Four Step Method of Instruction

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Teaching method based upon four steps: preparation, presentation, application and evaluation

45
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What is the most prevalent approach to teaching in the fire and emergency services?

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Instructor-led training

46
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When multiple instructors teach the same topic simultaneously with different groups it is called?

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Team Teaching

47
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Illustrated lecture?

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Instructional technique in which audiovisual training aids accompany a lecture, in order to clarify information and facilitate interaction with the students

48
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What is not a good format for introducing new material to inexperienced students?

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Discussion method

49
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The two most common categories of the whole group discussion format are:

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Guided-instructor presents a topic to a group and the members of the group discuss the ideas guided by the instructor
Conference-less controlled than a guided discussion, instructors are facilitators not teachers

50
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Leading a discussions requires that an instructor or facilitator assumes the following roles:

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  • director: move the discussion along
  • gatekeeper: ensure that all students have an opportunity to speak
  • timekeeper: remind students of the time remaining
51
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Nominal Group Process

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Classroom discussion format that requires students to follow a decision-making process similar to the processes that they will encounter in their professional duties

52
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Agenda-Based Process

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Classroom discussion format in which an agenda of topics or key points is provided to students for them to research, report on an discuss as a group

53
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What are the two different methods for reinforcing learning?

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repetition and behavioral reinforcement

54
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What is the major issue with all Computer Based Training types?

A

security

55
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Individualized Instruction

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adapting teaching methods to suit individual students’ specific learning styles, so that students will be better able to achieve objectives

56
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Case Study

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Description of a real or hypothetical problem that an organization or an individual has dealt with an may face in the future

57
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Define literate person:

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any person 15 years old or older who is able to read and write

58
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ADA divides learning disabilities into 3 categories:

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  • speech and language disorders
  • academic skills disorders
  • misc. learning disorders
59
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What are the difficulties that gifted students have to overcome?

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boredom or disinterest

60
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The first approach for an instructor to manage a talkative and aggressive student is:

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appeal to them in private

61
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Counseling

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advising learners or program participants on their educational progress, career opportunities, personal anxietes, or sudden crises in their lives

62
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Coaching

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process in which instructors direct the skills performance of individuals by observing, evaluating and making suggestions for improvement

63
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What is the primary purpose of mentoring?

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prepare students for advancement within the organization through the direction of a positive role model

64
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What NFPA standard includes increased hazard exposure training scenarios such as, live fire, hazmat materials, above and below grade rescue, and evolutions that require the use of power tools?

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1041

65
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Act of Comission?

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a wrongful act resulting in harm

66
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Act of Omission?

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neglecting to take an action that could have prevented harm

67
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Liability

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to be legally obligated or responsible for an act or physical condition

68
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Vicarious Liability

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liability imposed on one person for the conduct of another

69
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Foreseeability

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legal concept that states that reasonable people should be able to foresee the consequences of their actions and take reasonable precautions

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