Page 13 - 2017 Annual Fire School Brochure

ONE DAY CLASSES
Hands-On
745 Sunday
Engine Company
Operations for Volunteer
Companies – Beyond the
Book
Blake Deiber, Denison Fire
Department, and FSTB Field
Staff Instructor; Josh Hoffmeier,
Firefighter, Denison Fire
Department; Lt. Justin Gotto,
Denison Fire Department; and
Cory Snowgren, Fire Chief,
Denison Fire Department
This class will focus on the stretching
and deployment of the initial attack
line. Each step of this process is
broken down and examined through
the eyes of the firefighter. The
process will then be put back together
with a greater understanding of
each part being critical to the fast,
effective, and efficient deployment of
an attack line. Firefighters will then
participate in practical evolutions to
reinforce the concepts learning in the
classroom. “As the first line goes, so
does the fire”.
Personal Protective Equipment and
SCBA Requirements Apply
12 Fire Service Training Bureau
746 Sunday NEW 747 Sunday NEW
What Does it Take Ending the
To Be An Exceptional Fire Death-by-PowerPoint
Service Instructor Epidemic
in 2017
Jon Misewicz, Former member
Doug Kolkman, Fire Captain of the of Memphis Fire Department,
Yarmouth Fire Department, Past Memphis TN
President of the IaSFSI, and FSTB
Field Staff Instructor Many classes today seem more like
bedtime stories than instructional
It’s hard work to be a fire service opportunities. Instructors
instructor as well as being rewarding. dim the lights and read the
As a new instructor, you are charged PowerPoint slides to the audience
with staying current, deepening quite effectively putting them to
your knowledge of new principles sleep. This course aims to change
and practices, and determining how all that! This course is designed to
and where it will fit into your class. assist instructors in preparing for
Avoiding instructional pit falls and real-life application of the educational
ensuring quality should be the goal process in emergency services. We
of any instructor. This class will cover will explore a broad spectrum of
basic skills to present a lesson, basic educational theory and evidence-
skills to be effective in delivering based best practices for instructors of
the assigned material, leadership all experience levels. While examining
in presenting the material that will how students learn, we’ll explore the
instill confidence in your students, utilization of instructional aids such
and using mentoring and coaching as PowerPoint as an enhancement
that will help students to learn new to our presentation rather than
knowledge and build skills to perform a crutch. Analyzing the way the
their jobs. This class is designed brain processes information we can
for any fire service instructor who make our classroom presentations
wants or needs to sharpen their more effective and more engaging.
instructional skills to ensure quality in The lecture format of this course
the classroom or on the drill ground. incorporates activities that engage
higher-level thinking and learning
while maintaining maximum student
engagement. At the end of the day
we hope to inspire our instructors
to consider the brain when building
presentations turning a simple lecture
into a learning experience.
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