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Contact: Hannah Lemon, KU Edwards Campus, 913-897-8755, [email protected], @KUEdwardsCampus
Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute partners with Montana Fire Services Training School to train instructors on demonstrated ability
LAWRENCE – On April 14 and 15, the Montana State University Fire Services Training School (FSTS) will conduct an Instructor C training event for the Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute (KFRTI). The two-day event will teach KFRTI instructors FSTS’s demonstrated ability methodology, also called training in context, emphasizing a performance-based assessment of skills.
Brian Crandell and John Culbertson will lead the trainings, which will be limited to class sizes of 12. Officers and instructors from across the state of Kansas will be represented.
Crandell wrote his doctoral thesis on demonstrated ability, which FSTS has been employing in their training process for 30 years.
“Demonstrated ability is one of the best ways to deliver training effectively and also ensure that when students are evaluated, they can perform job functions,” said Kelly McCoy, director of KFRTI. “Anything emergency responders do reflects training received upstream, so we focus on providing the highest quality and most realistic training possible.”
Demonstrated ability takes students through a “crawl, walk, run” approach to training, showing them best practices, coaching them through the process and evaluating their ability to conduct job performance requirements in a real-life context. The process is repeated until instructors are confident in students’ ability to complete the task effectively.
KFRTI plans to move toward a performance-based instructional and assessment methodology rather than a written test or random sampling of skills in isolation. This model’s adaption promotes community health and safety by ensuring firefighters can exemplify mastery of all necessary skills in a single evolution to prepare a more competent workforce.
“We welcome the opportunity to collaborate with KFRTI and share our experience and successes to further staff professional development,” Crandell said. “The institute does excellent work in the interest of helping firefighters across Kansas, and we look forward to building that partnership.”
This media advisory is being sent for the benefit of editorial scheduling. Contact Hannah Lemon at 913-897-8755 or [email protected] to confirm.
McCoy, students and faculty will be available to comment on the importance of this training for firefighters and public safety in the community.
Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute is located at St. Andrews Office Facility, 1515 Saint Andrews Drive, Lawrence. The best times for coverage will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
To learn more about demonstrated ability, review these articles from EMS1 and Firefighternation.com.
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