Instructor I Flashcards
The acquisition of knowledge, usually through academic means such as college or university courses.
Education
The transfer of knowledge regarding vocational or technical skills.
Training
The terms ______ and ________ are often used interchangeably in fire and emergency services organizations; however they have different meanings.
Education and training
Without desire to ______, no amount of knowledge and experience can create an effective instructor.
Teach
Instructors must have the _______, _______, and _______ to achieve goals and encourage that desire in their students.
Motivation, desire, and determination.
Instructors must be _____ and ______ to all students, open-minded, and willing to hear, consider, and discuss ideas with them.
Fair and impartial.
Together these two elements, _________ and _______, are accomplished through detailed course outlines, established course objectives, defined evaluation procedures, and preparation for each class session.
Preparation and organization.
________ is the ability to understand the feelings and attitudes of another person.
Empathy
A course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress in said person and serves no legitimate purpose.
Harassment
Superior offering advancement or special treatment in return for sexual favors from a subordinate; also may refer to an situation in which an employee, regardless of gender, believes that the workplace is a hostile environment because of sexually offensive or sexist behavior.
Sexual harassment
Changes or adjustments in a work or school site, programs, or job that makes it possible for an otherwise qualified employee or student with a disability to perform the duties or tasks required.
Reasonable accommodation
Classification of a disorder in which a person has difficulty learning in a typical manner because of a problem with the brain’s ability to receive and process information.
Learning disability
Local or municipal law that applies to persons and things of the local jurisdiction; a local agency act that has the force of a statute; different from law that is enacted by federal or state/provincial legislatures.
Ordinance
Rules or directives of administrative agencies that have authorization to issue them.
Regulations
Departments and organizations in cities and towns create their own _________ to guide management and employee actions as they perform duties that must also comply with state/provincial and other _________.
Regulations.
The history of rulings made in courts of law that can be referenced and used to make court decisions in future cases or influence laws outside of the court system.
Legal precedent
A body of laws arranged systematically usually pertaining to one subject area such as a mechanical code, a building code, an electrical code, or a fire code.
Codes.
Criterion documents that are developed to serve as models or examples of desired performance or behaviors and that contain requirements and specifications outlining minimum levels of performance, protection, or construction.
Standard
In brief, a ______ ___ ______ is a statement of what is right and proper conduct for an individual in all relationships and activities within an organization or within society as a whole.
code of ethics
Statement of behavior that is right and proper for an individual functioning within an organization or society as a whole.
code of ethics
