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Foundations for the Practice of EMS Education provides broad-based coverage of fundamental principles and practices of EMS education. This book provides clear, up-to-date information and references for more in-depth material, as well as examples and templates of many useful educational tools. Whether in fire-based, hospital-based, or higher education programs, the EMS educator will find practical information and guidelines for program planning, implementation, and evaluation for both pre-service and continuing education. The book covers the needs and characteristics of adult learners, models and theories of learning, teaching-learning techniques, and legal and administrative considerations in EMS education. Beginning instructors, practicing instructors, educational program directors and medical directors can all find the information they need to offer a high-quality educational program. All EMS educators (as either an instructor development course textbook or reference) and EMS education program and medical directors. Fire department- based, hospital-based, and higher education based programs.

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This is a book about teaching, but even more so, about learning - both yours and your students'. Ultimately, all learning is personal. We create our knowledge through reflection on our experiences, constantly modifying or reinforcing the knowledge we already had based on earlier experiences. Just as importantly, all learning takes place in a context. Being an educator is not just something one does, but it is a way of thinking. I have endeavored to create a context of values and ideas through which to consider and apply the principles and practices of education. It is my hope that as you read this book, you will begin to think about your own thinking and learning, and about how your own experiences, assumptions, and values shape your learning. In this way, you can animate the facts, theories and principles in this book and bring them alive in your own practice as an educator.

This book cannot be an inexhaustible source of information on such a vast and complex field as education. It does provide sound, broad-based foundational knowledge with which to anchor further learning. I hope you will see it as a place to begin to learn (or to learn more) about education. As such, I have provided numerous resources for additional information for avenues you may wish to explore further. I also hope you will re-visit this book from time to time after your initial reading and reconsider its contents in the context of your on-going experiences as an educator.

This is an exciting time in EMS education, as we are poised to have tremendous impact on the future of EMS. Our first priority in realizing the potential of EMS is to develop a strong infrastructure of EMS educators, programs, and educational institutions. It has long been a dream of mine to put together in text form an organized collection of information and ideas to share with beginning educators and colleagues, alike. The skeleton of this text is the 2002 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Guidelines for EMS Educators. I have "fleshed out" the skeleton with pieces on educational philosophy and theory, examples, and insights. Armed with content knowledge, educational process expertise, and shared values for education, we, as educators, will play a critical role in advancing the EMS Agenda for the Future, and the EMS Education Agenda for the future.

Foundations for the Practice of EMS Education