Failing to Teach, or Teaching to Fail?
This class discusses common instructional detractors that reduce the effectiveness, value, or importance of the message the instructor is tasked with imparting to the participants. It includes issues in the classroom including the use of media and how to avoid or minimize those detractors, distractions, and disasters waiting to happen. It emphasizes improving course content delivery and participant recall when needed. The "Instructional Law of Unintended Consequences" focuses on the messages instructors impart without intending to do so. Often such detractors are counter to the content of that class or other programs such as drill ground/scene safety and most topics. These unintended consequences include inadvertently diminishing the importance of nonfire response topics such as EMS, fire prevention or public education, drill ground, and especially high-risk training such as live fire training.
