Training Strengths
Olivia Marques
Anastasiya Belyaeva
Michael Itzla
Cara Hamel
- Topics are discussed and then reiterated with quizzes or activities.
- Interactive activities keep you focused and put you in real-life situations
- Each lesson is broken into shorter sections, making it easier to follow
- An approximate time to complete each lesson is given, along with a progress bar
- Videos are used with closed captioning
- There are printable transcripts for each lesson
- Focused on defining acronyms and terminology
Lesson 3: ICS Features and Principles
Lesson 4: Incident Commander & Command Staff Functions
Training Weaknesses
- Every incident must have an Incident Action Plan
- Specifies the incident objectives
- States the activities to be completed
- Covers a specified time frame (operational period)
- Chain of Command/ Unity of Command
- Incident facilities
- Incident command post - Incident Commander oversees all incident operations
- Staging areas - personnel and equipment are gathered
- Base camps - primary logistics and administrative functions are coordinated and administered
- Integrated communications - radio frequency
- Personal accountability - following directions
- 5 Major management functions
- Incident command
- Sets the incident objectives, strategies, and priorities
- Operations
- Conducts operations to reach the incident objectives
- Planning
- Supports the incident action planning process
- Logistics
- Provides resources and services to achieve goals
- Finance and Administration
- Monitors costs
Lesson 2: ICS Overview
Lesson 5: General Staff Functions
- ICS is a standardized on-scene, all-hazard management approach
- Procedures are used to manage personnel, facilities, equipment, and communications
- Used during the entirety of an event
- ICS has been tested in more than 30 years of emergency applications
- ICS is used for:
- Natural disasters
- Break-ins or hostile situations
- Hazardous materials accidents
- Planned events
- Defines the terminology and structure of the general staff during an emergency situation
- Describes the functions of each group within the general staff
- The Incident Command is broken into four sections: Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance/Administration
- Each section is broken into smaller branches, groups and divisions
Lesson 1: Course Welcome
Lesson 6: Unified Command
- ICS: Incident Command System
- Introduction to ICS for Schools was created by the Emergency Management Institute
- Follows the National Incident Management System guidelines
- Unified command allows schools and other agencies with different responsibilities to coordinate, plan and act effectively
- Agencies with different legal, geographic and functional responsibilities are able to interact smoothly
- All act under one operations chief
Lesson 7: Putting It All Together
- Assume accountability -abide by school policies
- Mobilization and check in - must be assigned to a specific role
- Initial briefing - assessment of situation, location of work area, safety procedures
- Record keeping
- Lengthy assignments - travel kit
- Demobilization -once incident is resolved, complete all forms
- Technical issues disrupted completion of the training- submissions were not recognized
- A new window was opened each time an activity was completed - unnecessary and took tome to load
- Information was repeated between lessons
- Some activities do not check answers or give a score
Lesson 8: Course Summary
- ICS - Incident Command System
- Standardized incident management
- Overview of key features:
- Incident Action plan
- Management by Objectives
- Chain and Unity of Command
- Integrated communications
- Resource management
- Accountability
Major Principles and Procedures, and Facts
- Broken into eight lessons
- Each lesson focuses on a particular issue addressed in the Incident Command System (ICS) for schools
Overview
- Discuss course details and learning outcomes
- Describe contents of course lessons
- Give analysis of training course
Methods of Assessing Student Learning and Visual Design
Lessons Learned and Best Practices of Training
Have option of printing out final score and incorrect answers
- User-friendly and interactive
- Making both a printable and interactive version of the course is appealing
- Include closed-caption with videos and provide transcripts of the script
- Make sure to define terminology that a lay person may not know
- Include a glossary if necessary
- Check for technical bugs before making training available to the public
Intended Training Audience and Learning Outcomes
Intended Audience
Learning Outcomes
- By the end of this course, users should be able to apply the ICS principles in school-based situations
- This includes learning how to interact with emergency response units
Introduction to the Incident Command System (ICS) for Schools
- The primary audience of the ICS training course is school personnel (kindergarten through high school)
- This includes administrators, teachers, and staff members
An Emergency Management Institute Course provided by FEMA
FEMA: Introduction to Incident Command System for Schools