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Outdoor Instructors Wanted
Colorado River Sept. 7 – Sept. 17th
Backpacking/canoeing instructors wanted
One of our clients needs 3 outdoor instructors for two backpacking/canoeing 5-days trips in the White Mts. of New Hampshire. Dates are: August 16-20 and August 23-27, 2010. If you are interested in being considered for this contract please email us your resume at resume@endurancestaffing.com. Instructors currently in our database have priority.
Videopodcasting in Outdoor Education presentation
AEE?
Summary by:LANDOFOASE
Association for Experiential Education is a non profit, professionals membership association dedicated to experiential education and the students and practitioners who believe and utilized its philosophy. It is located in United States and has about 1.500 members which come from most country around the world.
Experiential Education is a philosophy and methodolgy for developing people through direct experiential activities, in simply ways it is aim to help people develop him or herself and or other people. In most specific, there are many ways which is included in this area of development; sharing which incorporated with many practical technique or usually name as outdoor activities, set of therapy, an others. However, the most common ways of learning specially in formal institution like schools or universities using lecturing. But today it is now getting spread widely into many different ways of learning and focused on students based experience.
Uniquely most of the members of this association come from vary different education backgrounds but has a same interest on outdoor or adventure activities and also believe with an ancient Chinese proverb; tell me then i will forge, show me then i will remember, and involve then i will understand. Word of understand is also been positioned as as base how to accelerate learning process in maximum.
This progressive community of educator and practitioners as they said had been involve in many area of development, education institutions, government and community development. They also published journal, research, and other academic paper which is great as a way of developing other alternatives of learning methodology and philosophy which is sometimes stuck in an old paradigm of paedagogy.
Association for Experiential Education Originally published in Shvoong: http://www.shvoong.com/social-sciences/education/1977208-association-experiential-education/
Vital Signs podcast is a great tool for outdoor instructors
Yesterday, I had a great refresher on soft tissue injuries thanks to Vital Signs podcast. Vital Signs “is a series of online courses designed to satisfy continuing education hours for EMS providers through high quality distance-based training”. I highly recommend this podcast to any outdoor instructor looking for a refresher in the emergency medical field prior to teaching an expedition course, especially if you took your WFR a while back. Enjoy! http://www.jblearning.com/vitalSignsPodcast.cfm
New Wilderness First Aid course – American Red Cross
Outdoor instructor now have one more option for the medical training they received. The American Red Cross has announced the new revised Wilderness First Aid course. This course has been alingned with the Boy Scouts of America first aid guidelines and it hopes to serve not only the Boy Scouts but also that growing need of medical training for outdoor leaders. Release date – late February 2010!
Wilderness lifeguard training
How many of you go for a dip in a beautiful waterfall after a long day of hiking? Or, jump in the water after a day of paddling? Are you trained as a wilderness lifeguard? Is someone in your group trained? AEE, ACA and WEA all have standards for waterfront safety and swimming activities in the backcountry. However, the industry does not have a common agreement on a certification program for a “wilderness lifeguard”. What do you think? Do we need one? Would this be the next WFR? I really like the program that Landmark has in place.
Dr. Leo McAvoy keynote at AORE 2009
Dr. McAvoy spoke about three trends in the field of outdoor education. These trends are:
- The populations that we are receiving (in our programs) suffer from Nature Deficit Disorder.
- There is a professionalization of the outdoor leader (Academic degrees, certifications…).
- There is an increase of pressure on leaders to protect participants from all harm, leading to a water-down adventure experience.
What do you think about these trends?
WRMC 2009 proceedings
If you missed the Wilderness Risk Management Conference this year, go to the WRMC Resource Center for free materials http://bit.ly/Cw2iW
Using Twitter at the AEE and AORE conference…
Professor Weisgerber from St. Edward’s University presents a clear message about claiming a space in Twitter and using it to connect and to engage with your community. I think about the AEE conference and the AORE conference ahead of us. How great will it be to have many outdoor professionals connected via Twitter collaborating during and after these conferences. What do you think?
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