FEMA Online Training??

[MikeD]

Can someone please share what they use for training/teaching at squadron meetings, particularly for cadets?  I've been trying to get people to take IS 100 and 700 for about a year, and a total of 2 cadets have passed it. 

Is there a practice test I could give them?  I think part of the problem with the cadets is their test-taking skills and not understanding how to take advantage of the test being open book.

[CadetProgramGuy]

you can do to the FEMA website and down load the ICS courses that you need.

Then here is what I do.

I take the materials, merge into a single Powerpoint.

Look at the test, the questions do not change, but the order of the questions do.

On the slides, bolden, change the font color, make it obvious that this is an answer to a test question.

Make them take notes, or print out the PPT handout slides.

When you are done, have them take the test.

As someone else said...Rinse, repeat.

[CadetProgramGuy]

Sorry I should have posted the websites.

ICS 100 - http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS100A.asp
ICS 200 - http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS200A.asp
ICS 700 - http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is700a.asp
ICS 800 - http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/IS800b.asp

This will be a bit of an initial cost item, but get into the classroom download section, and print out the manuals, binder them up and keep for later classes.

[isuhawkeye]

One thing that I have seen instructors do.

Print the course exam. hand it out as a course hand out.  As you go through the ppt slides the students get a chance to fill in the answers.  THe students can then use that handout to answer the on line test questions. 

You can do the same thing if you are taking the online course. 

[CadetProgramGuy]

Also true.