Resource Guide for EMS Instructors

Meet the needs of your EMT students and prepare your curriculum using these organized resources, which include techniques for instructing adult learners.

Textbook and workbook resources

EMT-B Classroom Resource Guide - this unique guide catalogs each EMT-Basic textbook and its accompanying workbook, with links to each book's online instructor and student companions if the publishers provide them.

Course design tools

Custom Classroom, DiscoverySchool.com - this wonderful tool allows you to create online quizzes, puzzles and worksheets for free.
Exam Coordinator Documents, NREMT - all the materials you need to coordinate a well-organized National Registry Exam.
Idaho EMS Forms for Instructors
National Standard Curricula, NHSTA - curriculum guides and other documents to help you form a syllabus that supports the NSC, including the EMS Educator Guidelines.

Instructional tools

EMS Educational Resources, EMS House of DeFrance - a collection of presentations, articles and other materials for educators.
Glasgow Coma Scale Training Exercise (PDF) - a series of patient scenarios to help EMT students learn how to evaluate GCS.

PowerPoint Presentations - a complete library of electronic presentations by Temple University professors that you can use in your EMT or paramedic classroom (with appropriate permission and credit, of course).

Organizations

Articles and related documents

"The Disorganization of EMS Instructors," House of deFrance.
"EMS Education Agenda for the Future: A Systems Approach," NHTSA - a vision for the future of EMS education and a proposal for an improved, structured system to educate the next generation of EMS professionals.
Education & Training articles, JEMS

Helpful books

Foundations for the Practice of EMS Education	EMT Teaching: A Common-Sense Approach	Instructional Methods in Emergency Services
Teaching EMS: An Educator's Guide to Improved EMS Instruction	Foundations of Education: An EMS Approach	EMS 4 EMS: Easy Memory System for Emergency Medical Services
	Teaching Ideas and Classroom Activities for Health Care

More books related to EMS instruction are available at EMSBooks.com.

Teaching adult learners

"30 Things We Know for Sure about Adult Learning," Ron and Susan Zemke - what you need to know about working with adults in the classroom.
"Assumptions about the Adult Learner," Nebraska Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy - accepted social learning theory believes that all adult learners pshare four common characteristics.
"Good Teaching: The Top Ten Requirements," Richard Leblanc - although the article is geared toward public school instruction of children, it clearly identifies the ideal qualities of great teachers.
How Do They Know They Know?: Evaluating Adult Learning
Meeting the Special Needs of Adult Students
"Principles of Adult Learning," Stephen Lieb - straight-forward, well-organized article that addresses characteristics, motivational factors and instructional tips.
Understanding and Facilitating Adult Learning: A Comprehensive Analysis of Principles and Effective Practices

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Updated 08.27.06

"True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own."
—Nikos Kazantzakis