Sub-Section 3-735-09 - EMS Educator Academy Goal

CMH EMS Education Manual

Academy Description:

This course fulfills all the training requirements set forth by the 2002 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Guidelines for EMS Educators. The EMS Instructor Course contains both a lecture portion and a skills demonstration, allowing all students an opportunity to present a lesson from start to finish. Upon successful completion of this course, students can teach EMS classes up to and including their current certification level. Additionally, this course meets the minimum requirements set forth by Missouri Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (13 CSR 30-40.331(8)) for an instructor training program.

Academy Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this class, students will be able to:

• Discuss the philosophical foundations of education and why philosophy is important in education.
• Create a personal philosophy of education.
• Develop and choose learning activities that are consistent with the objectives being taught.
• List and discuss the ethical and legal issues that EMS educators may face.
• Select the proper classroom environment for various aspects of EMS education.
• Create lesson plans and activities that motivate students to learn both cognitive and psychomotor skills.
• Define learning and discuss why experience is critical to learning.
• Conduct an educational needs analysis/assessment for their departments or organizations.
• Create lesson objectives using a variety of levels and domains.
• Create a course syllabus using the classroom format of their choice.
• Prepare and deliver lessons that include diagnostic, formative, and summative evaluations; and formal and informal evaluations.
• Administer written tests and other assessments that use various Depth of Knowledge levels and various question types and are appropriate for the lesson.
• Develop and critique instruments used for psychomotor and clinical evaluations.
• Discuss the reasons for remediating a student and list the steps to take to help the student become successful.
• Deliver an effective presentation.
• List barriers to student learning and methods of overcoming those barriers.
• Appropriately correct dysfunctional behavior during a lesson presentation.
• Discuss and demonstrate the approved method for teaching skills.
• Discuss characteristics of effective clinical and laboratory learning situations.

CMH EMS Education Mission: "Provide state-of-the-art education to develop and support a team of exceptional emergency medical professionals."

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