Fundamentals of Instructor Training for CPR Pro instructorsMost of the time when I teach Fundamentals of Instructor Training (FIT) I have enough notice to get the texts to my students in advance. This means they can read them and start work on some of the projects so the class will be more useful. (Most of the time at a Red Cross chapter students will not get their books until the class starts.)
Here is the homework when I teach FIT to a group of potential CPR Pro instructors.
We’ll go over all these assignments in class. Your answers may change after you watch the video. In some cases the book asks you to write down people’s responses. Put your own responses, we’ll go over them in class and then you can write down other people’s responses.
from the FIT text:
Read or skim through appendix A pages 25-29
Read B 31-32
Look thru 33-38
Read 39-47
look thru 49-51
read 53-57
look at 59
read 83-85,
Read 61-62 You will be signing a document much like this as you become an instructor. What are the most important things you say you will do?
64-65 is almost the same as part of 62
read 65-68
65 is the document that the facility you work for, for example, agrees to. What are the most important things they say they will do?
look at 70-76, (especially 73-76),
look at 77-81, 87, 89
complete pages 3, 4
we’ll do page 5 in class
complete 7-11 Put your own responses, we’ll go over them in class and then you can write down other people’s responses
read 12-13 Have you had any instructors who only Push?
complete all of the scenarios on 14 & 15, be ready to explain your answers,
read 17-19
read and complete 20, 21
read 53-57 again
Prepare a 2 minute lesson on each of the following subjects. Each person will draw one of these subjects from a hat and deliver the mini-lesson to the group.
You need to time yourself to be able to do the lesson in only two minutes, but not complete it too quickly. Always consider safety considerations and equipment needs. You will not be showing any videos with this lesson. Relax, this is not a make or break lesson, just an initial try at thinking through putting a lesson together and delivering it.
Subjects:
How pathogens are spread
How and why to open an airway
Call first or care first
The differences in CPR techniques for an infant, child and adult (see page 49 of the CPR Pro text, or table 8-1 on page 127 of the Lifeguarding text))
Duty to act
Standard of care
Why/how to get consent
Again, the two minute teaching is not at all crucial, just a warm up for any future instructor class you take. Keep it simple. Start with reading the info from your text to the class and then give examples. You do not need to overdo it with powerpoint, flashy pictures, laser pointer, interactive holography, light show, fireworks, fog machine, cheerleaders, drum and bugle corps, dancing bears, or parading costumed elephants.
(Lost your CPR Pro text? You can download a free copy. digital Red Cross textbooks)
Read 23-24. We’ll complete these in class.
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The homepage of the Silicon Valley (formerly Santa Clara Valley) Red Cross (your chapter) is at:
http://www.siliconvalley-redcross.org/
go there and click on at least three links and briefly (three sentences is all that is needed), write up what you find.
Write this phone number for Health and Safety Services: 577-2178
on the inside cover of your instructor's manual.
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