First Aid Instructor Development Course

Would you like to teach first-aid at your work, club, church, or other social organization? Do you know someone who does? This course gets you one step closer to being able to train people into a two-year certification in life-saving skills such as Standard First-Aid / Cardiac-Pulminary Resuscitation (CPR) / Automated External Defibrillator (AED). This course is designed to provide the instructor-candidate with the knowledge and skills needed to teach Emergency Care and Safety Institute (ECSI) first-aid programs in the community. The instructor development course has several modules, including modules which requires the instructor-candidate to: present two prepared topics, handle questions and answers based on prepared presentations, and demonstrate skills proficiency in the courses to be taught. When the instructor-candidate has met the requirements to complete this course and has shadowed the instruction of an ECSI first-aid course, the instructor-candidate will be qualified to instruct of first-aid classes they are currently certified in on their own. The topics covered include: Skill Proficiency Assessment Instructor Attributes Reasons Students Take Classes Learning Styles Characteristics of the Adult Learner Managing the Challenging Participant Course Preparation Advertising Meeting the Agency's Training Needs Having Enough Instructors and Equipment Lesson Plans Teaching Strategies Presentation Skills Closing Activities The website describing the course is: http://www.ecsinstitute.org/Instructor/development.aspx Note: some ECSI courses meet the accreditation requirements of the American Camp Association, see http://www.acacamps.org/accreditation/firstaidcpr Please RSVP by December 18.