Instructor Book Flashcards
What is the ability to view the learning environment from the students’ perspective?
sensitivity
What act prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin?
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
What prohibits invasion of a person’s right to privacy?
Privacy Act or Buckley Amendment
What is the first step toward creating an ethical culture?
Creating an ethics program
Sensory-Stimulus Theory?
There is a lifelong reliance on the five senses as the primary tool set for learning
According to the cone of learning in what way do humans retain the most knowledge?
90% of what they say while doing what they are talking about
Andragogy?
The art of teaching adults
When do adults learn best?
When they are allowed to exercise skills
Primacy assumes?
The first of a series of learned acts would be remembered better than the others
What are the three domains of learning?
Cognitive: knowledge
Psychomotor: skills
Affective: Attitude
Instructional Strategies: Sequential or Linear
Using a step by step, orderly thinking process that has both a beginning and an end
Instructional Strategies: Abstract or Symbolic
Recognizing common qualities in similar but different experiences.
Instructional Strategies: Concrete or Real Objects or Items
Preferring to manage items and work with facts instead of imagining outcomes or the feel of something
Instructional Strategies: Global or Holistic
seeing the whole picture and forming relationships between concepts, events or things.
What is the best way to present an organized presentation?
Practice the presentation
Class Continuity?
Principle of instruction that states tat all information throughout a course should be presented in a logical, understandable pattern.
Class Consistency?
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
Learning Outcome?
Statement that broadly specifies what students will know or be able to do once learning is complete
What should each learning objective contain?
An action and either a knowledge or skill
What are the three critical components of Job Performance Requirements?
1-Task to be performed
2-Tools, equipment, or materials required to perform and complete the task
3-Expected performance outcome
What is the difference between a lesson outline and a lesson plan?
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
Public Domain?
Works published before 1923 are no longer covered by any copyright ownership
Fair Use?
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
Model Release?
Legal document that grants permission to use a person’s image or voice in photos or recordings
What is the easiest, most frequently used and more versatile nonprojection-type equipment?
A marker board
Keystoning
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
When showing a video when should you turn the TV on/off?
Turn on after starting the video and off before stopping the video
Do not use a video that takes up more than?
1/2 the class session
Interpersonal Communication in the classroom consists of the following five elements:
- Sender (instructor)
- Message (the lesson)
- Receiver (student)
- Feedback to the sender
- Interference
In order for communication to be effective, both the sender and receiver must agree on?
Its purpose
The five general purposes for interpersonal communication are:
- Learning
- Relating
- Influencing
- Playing
- Helping
Words in a message only account for what percentage of the communication?
7%
Non verbal communication transmits what percentage of the message and how is it broken up?
93%–55% body language and 38% vocal tone and inflection
Non Verbal Communication consists of the following elements:
- body language
- vocal tone and volume
- personal appearance
Listening constitutes from ___ to ____ % of a persons average day?
45-53%
When in the classroom the students spend ____ to ____ percent of class time listening to the instructor, other students or audiovisual presentations.
50-75%
Listening Component-Attending:
focusing on the speaker while ignoring any other distractions
Listening Component-Understanding
decoding the message and assigning meaning to it
Listening Component-Remembering
retaining information in short term and then long term memory
Listening Component-Evaluating
critically analyzing information to determine how accurate it is, or to separate fact from opinion
Listening Component-Responding
indicating to the sender that the message or information has been understood or requires more explanation
Competency-Based Learning
training that emphasizes knowledge and skills that are required on the job
Mastery approach to teaching is also referred to as:
Competency-based learning–requires that the students successfully master the learning objectives or outcomes of the lesson or course.
Four Step Method of Instruction
Teaching method based upon four steps: preparation, presentation, application and evaluation
What is the most prevalent approach to teaching in the fire and emergency services?
Instructor-led training
When multiple instructors teach the same topic simultaneously with different groups it is called?
Team Teaching
Illustrated lecture?
Instructional technique in which audiovisual training aids accompany a lecture, in order to clarify information and facilitate interaction with the students
What is not a good format for introducing new material to inexperienced students?
Discussion method
The two most common categories of the whole group discussion format are:
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
Leading a discussions requires that an instructor or facilitator assumes the following roles:
- director: move the discussion along
- gatekeeper: ensure that all students have an opportunity to speak
- timekeeper: remind students of the time remaining
Nominal Group Process
Classroom discussion format that requires students to follow a decision-making process similar to the processes that they will encounter in their professional duties
Agenda-Based Process
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
What are the two different methods for reinforcing learning?
repetition and behavioral reinforcement
What is the major issue with all Computer Based Training types?
security
Individualized Instruction
adapting teaching methods to suit individual students’ specific learning styles, so that students will be better able to achieve objectives
Case Study
Description of a real or hypothetical problem that an organization or an individual has dealt with an may face in the future
Define literate person:
any person 15 years old or older who is able to read and write
ADA divides learning disabilities into 3 categories:
- speech and language disorders
- academic skills disorders
- misc. learning disorders
What are the difficulties that gifted students have to overcome?
boredom or disinterest
The first approach for an instructor to manage a talkative and aggressive student is:
appeal to them in private
Counseling
advising learners or program participants on their educational progress, career opportunities, personal anxietes, or sudden crises in their lives
Coaching
process in which instructors direct the skills performance of individuals by observing, evaluating and making suggestions for improvement
What is the primary purpose of mentoring?
prepare students for advancement within the organization through the direction of a positive role model
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?
1041
Act of Comission?
a wrongful act resulting in harm
Act of Omission?
neglecting to take an action that could have prevented harm
Liability
to be legally obligated or responsible for an act or physical condition
Vicarious Liability
liability imposed on one person for the conduct of another
Foreseeability
legal concept that states that reasonable people should be able to foresee the consequences of their actions and take reasonable precautions
