Running the Course
Run the course
The Chief Instructor will have responsibility for ensuring that the skill development course standards are met. As such they require to:
- Use the course syllabus to decide which instructor does what.
- Be flexible: if an instructor wants to do an alternative task.
- Give instructor plenty of warning of what is required.
- Ensure that the instructor has the most up to date materials.
- Ensure that the instructor has prepared, preferably by practicing.
- Agree the agenda/timetable.
- Be prepared to step in to replace an instructor that does not turn up.
- Have a contingency, e.g. instructor shortage, spare bulb for the OHP etc.
- Get all the packs together.
- Sort out any equipment and put it together
- Foils
- OHP’s, PC projector.
- Screen
- Manikins
- O2 sets
- Extension leads
- Any handouts
- Pens
- Something to eat/drink.
- Check any hire equipment.
- Make sure everyone knows where they are going.
- Parking facilities
- Confirm the event and who will open up for you.
- Confirm instructors.
- Impress on the instructors and students the need to stick to times
- Arrive early.
- Set up the venue.
- Do not forget any of the items required
- Try to stick to the timetable. Minutes become hours if you do not watch them. Keep the breaks but shorten them if necessary.
Get the instructor team together to discuss how the course went. What went well, lessons learned, what could be improved, etc.
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