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42 Cards in this Set
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Individuals who choose a fire service career will ultimately decide how far up the ladder they desire to climb to what |
Meet their own personal definition of success |
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A key component of developing professionally is |
Adopting the concept of continuous improvement |
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Traits of success include what five things |
Vision, technical knowledge, organizational skills, people skills, and commitment |
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Fire officers at the administrative executive levels need to seek, obtain, and maintain what |
Fire service credentials to validate their education, training, experience, and professional development |
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Fire service organizations can offer many benefits and rewards and at the same time provide the basis for |
Networking with other fire service professionals |
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What is the key to helping chief officers and their personnel achieve their full potential |
Professional development |
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Fire officers can use what to map out their own plan for continuous improvement |
The national professional development model |
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What should begin early on in one’s career, it is a skill that, once developed, can serve the individual well into the future as he continues to rise through the ranks of the organization |
Goal setting |
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What and what emergency response demands sound training programs and educational requirements that help create thinking, feeling human beings who can look at a situation or task, determine the proper course of action, perform that action, evaluate its effectiveness, and adjust to the dynamics of the situation at hand |
Safe and efficient |
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In establishing education and training goals, it is first helpful to distinguish between the terms what and what |
Education and training |
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Educational degrees can be categorized into the following five basic levels based on educational difficulty and curriculum, what are the five |
Certificate, associates degree, bachelors degree, masters degree, doctoral degree |
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Institutional accreditation is a very important consideration when deciding which degree program to enter. Why |
All educational institutions are not accredited equally |
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The fire officer three and four must project a what of the department to the community, for example, by attending and participating in community organizations and events. This level of involvement enables the fire officer to understand what the blank needs and to better prepare to develop strategies for service delivery. |
Positive image, Community needs |
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Assisting subordinate employees with their own professional development planning can help assure what |
Department growth and longevity as well as support succession planning |
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A national credentialing program developed and evaluated by the Center for Public safety excellence. |
Commission on professional credentialing |
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A concept that states that for an organization or individual to excel in any endeavor, that organizational person must continually improve. |
Continuous improvement |
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A continuous process of training, education, knowledge, and skills enhancement |
Professional development |
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A set of conditions developed by the international Association of fire chiefs to guide incident commanders in the decision making process at the scene of an emergency |
Rules of engagement |
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Continuous improvement is not just a concept, it is an |
Action oriented process |
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Personally and professionally, successful people have many common traits, including what six things |
Vision, courage, technical knowledge, organizational skills, people skills, and commitment |
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What can be one of the best ways to examine the traits of vision, technical knowledge, organizational skills, people skills and commitment in action |
Observation of others |
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The absolute foundation of professional development is a |
A persons attitude |
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The following four components still need to be integrated or established in fire Service training and education
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Training systems, education systems, independent assessment of skills, and reciprocity among systems of training and education |
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A professional development program helps ensure that capable leaders are put in positions of |
Authority and responsibility |
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The IAFC officer development handbook defines professional development as |
The planned, progressive lifelong process of education, training, self development and experience |
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Education and training |
Education and training |
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In reference to education and training, personnel must be skilled in the art of |
Situational awareness, strategy formation, tactical implementation of the strategy, and ongoing evaluation |
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Education and training programs in emergency response should be developed with a goal of providing personnel with the ability to apply the appropriate strategies and tactics to a dynamic emergency situation that takes into account three major considerations |
Risk versus benefit, safety and rules of engagement, and tactical efficiency These three considerations are vital to the safe outcome of any dynamic emergency situation |
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What is the key to strategic success |
Tactical efficiency |
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What type of learning emphasizes the intellectual process |
Cognitive learning |
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What type of learning emphasizes paradigm and attitude |
Affective learning |
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What type of learning emphasizes motor skills |
Psychomotor learning |
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Although all three domains of learning can be used in education and training, education relates best to blank or blank learning, and training to psychomotor |
Cognitive or affective learning |
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What two standards of NFPA are very important references in determining basic job descriptions |
NFPA 1001, standard for fire fighter professional qualifications and NFPA 1021, standard for fire officer professional qualifications |
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What are the five basic levels of degrees and the corresponding officer rank as identified in the national professional development model |
Certificates- basic fire fighter Associates degree, managing officer, lieutenant, non-line officer in supervisory role in department bureau or division Bachelors degree, administrative officer, captain or battalion chief, non-line officer in a Bureau or division management role Masters degree, executive officer, all chief officer positions Doctoral degree, not currently identified |
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Education in arts is more what in nature than is education in science which is more what |
Conceptual, technical |
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What organization has made a standardized undergraduate curriculum that is national in scope, content and outcomes |
Fire and emergency services higher education (FESHE) |
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The experience component of the IAFC handbook identify several areas in which the fire officer three and four candidate must be proficient. These areas include what 6 things |
Financial and program management, community relations, planning, professional memberships and contributions, agency operations, and coaching and counseling |
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The best way for a fire officer to demonstrate a willingness to get involved is by doing what four things |
Volunteering on community boards, participating in public speaking engagements, developing a relationship with the media, and attending important community functions |
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Advanced programs such as what provide excellent learning opportunities to become proficient in public speaking |
Toastmasters |
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Assisting with professional development plans can be broken down into the following five basic elements |
Determination of the employees desires and potential Review of the employees current knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) Identification of areas of improvement Positioning of the employee for success Review of goal progress |
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Reviewing goal progress might be better done on a blank or even blank basis |
Six month or even quarterly basis |
