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Page 1 of 8 Creative Contributions ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER INTRODUCTION UNIT Instructor Guide to Introduction 1. The goal of this unit is to provide an overview of the Community Emergency Response Training, explain how different participants learn and understand how to interact with participants who have varying abilities. 2. This is the content for Introduction: a. When disaster strikes b. How CERT developed c. CERT Curriculum overview d. Classroom operations e. Learning Styles f. Interacting with other participants 3. Supplies needed for the introduction: • LCD projector • Computer linked to LCD projector • Computer disk containing the introduction unit’s power point presentation • Instructor Guide for the introduction • Participant’s Manual for CERT 4. Time allotted for this unit: The introduction is scheduled for 60 minutes Time spent on each unit can be maneuvered by dropping content and referring to its placement in the take-home materials. This permits flexibility on the part of the instructor and encourages participants to question or discuss course matters. It also holds the instructor to the time limit for the unit without expecting participants to stay overtime or to have instructors who follow to give up their time. 5. Instructional staffing requirements: • The full instructional staff should be present for the introduction. • This is an overview for the full training to follow (whether it is the week long, month long, or other length of training). • Introductions of the teaching team and class take place in the next unit. This offers people who show up late a chance to be included in the introduction activity. 6. Creative Contributions • In the column to the right of each of the slides in this unit, there is space to take notes on teaching techniques that are fun, funky, and innovative. Use the classroom time in this train-the-trainer course to share ideas on how to reach people with different learning styles. Seal good ideas, generate some yourself, and utilize other’s ideas as a foundation to develop new training techniques that benefit all course participants! ---PAGE BREAK--- Page 2 of 8 Creative Contributions ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER INTRODUCTION UNIT Office for Domestic Preparedness Community Emergency Response Training When disaster strikes • First Responders • Individuals • Households • Neighborhoods • Preparedness, planning, survival skills and mutual aid during initial period! 7. This may be the first time participants have any experience with emergency management. This slide will give a general overview. Don’t spend a great deal of time explaining the disaster response process or emergency management here. There is a whole unit that covers what Emergency Management is as a profession. The disaster response process is also covered in the first unit on disaster preparedness. 8. This is ‘just good to know’ information: CERT developed from a program that started in Kobe Japan. They wanted to involve citizens in disaster preparedness after a major earthquake. The LAFD CERT program modeled itself after it. Citizen Corps is the national program that sponsors and supports CERT. Office for Domestic Preparedness Community Emergency Response Training How CERT Developed COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TRAINING Presidential program for volunteers to help communities prepare and respond to national incidents. CERT is a primary element. CERT concept was developed and implemented by the City of Los Angeles Fire Department in 1985. FEMA encouraged nationwide adoption of the program. The mission of this course is to train residents from a variety of communities to help individuals and groups prepare themselves, their families, coworkers and neighbors in the event of a catastrophic disaster. ---PAGE BREAK--- Page 3 of 8 Creative Contributions ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER INTRODUCTION UNIT 9. This is an opportunity to review how the full training will take place. It is good to explain that there will be opportunity for hands- on learning on days two and three. It is good to explain that day five will utilize all the material explained in the previous four days. The learning will build upon itself. ---PAGE BREAK--- Page 4 of 8 Creative Contributions ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER INTRODUCTION UNIT Office for Domestic Preparedness Community Emergency Response Training CERT Classroom Operations • Instructors – Subject matter experts – Team teaching • Learning – Lecture and discussion – Individual and group – Interaction, simulation, role-play S 10. This slide, combined with the one that follows are allotted 10 minutes combined. Building on what you indicated would happen each day; you can link how different material will be presented in different formats. To best present information, a variety of instructors are used based on their subject matter expertise. Participants in class are considered a rich environment for expertise in a variety of backgrounds. 11. It is important to point out that adult learners can take breaks as they need. That they should respect the space and privacy needs of fellow participants. Change this slide if needed based on your classroom timeline. For example, if you have lunchtime speakers, indicate participation level expectations. ---PAGE BREAK--- Page 5 of 8 Creative Contributions ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER INTRODUCTION UNIT Office for Domestic Preparedness Community Emergency Response Training Learning Styles • Visual Verbal Learner • Visual Nonverbal Learner • Tactile Kinesthetic Learner • Auditory Verbal Learner The key to successful learning is understand how you learn adapt to the environment. Respect how others learn! 12. If this material is new to you as an instructor, take time to review the categories from the participant’s manual. This material is a KEY CONCEPT for this curriculum. All learners should be attended to in the CERT course. It is the position of the program that all members of a community who wish to undergo training in disaster preparation and response through CERT have an accessible classroom. ---PAGE BREAK--- Page 6 of 8 Creative Contributions ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER INTRODUCTION UNIT Office for Domestic Preparedness Community Emergency Response Training Interacting with other participants • Deaf or hard of hearing – Determine communication method – Speak directly – To gain their attention – Position while communicating – Clear communication – Do not make assumptions ---PAGE BREAK--- Page 7 of 8 Creative Contributions ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER INTRODUCTION UNIT 13. These 3 slides have been allotted approximately 20 minutes combined. Each slide ends with the same notion that learners should not make assumptions about each other’s capabilities. If you have participants or instructors in your training with disabilities who have been asked and agreed ahead of time to address their learning and communication needs, this is a good place to ask for their input. It is important to stress that a disaster can render anyone disabled, on a temporary or permanent basis. Exposure to learning and communication needs of these community members may provide a great skill base for participants to meet the needs of a variety of community members during a disaster. Throughout the class, participants will be placed outside their comfort zones in a variety of learning situations. Their physical bodies may need to be in different circumstances to participate in classroom activities (for example, triage cards that ask them to have no hearing because of a loud blast that accompanied the earthquake). These information about interacting with participants with different learning styles or physical ability differences will help them build a skill base to interact and better meet the needs of the full community during disaster response ---PAGE BREAK--- Page 8 of 8 Creative Contributions ACCESSIBLE CERT TRAIN-THE-TRAINER INTRODUCTION UNIT Office for Domestic Preparedness Community Emergency Response Training The mission of this course is to train people from a variety of communities to help individuals and groups prepare themselves, their families, coworkers and neighbors in the event of a catastrophic disaster. CERT Train – The – Trainer 14. If you are training trainers for CERT, use this slide. If this is a standard CERT class, skip or delete it from your presentation. Office for Domestic Preparedness Community Emergency Response Training 15. Always ask if there are questions at the end of each unit, but remember as an instructor, to ask that as you go along. Often questions are best asked and addressed in the body of your presentation when they are more topical and easy to relate to information at hand. Identify if there is a break before the next session, how long it is, and where toilet facilities, snacks and rest areas are located. END CERT INTRODUCTION UNIT