Two Dark Thirty
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Where do I begin?
We explore storytelling as a way to captivate your audience and set expectations as the key to beginning a successful learning experience. We'll also examine how attitudes spread easily and negatively impact your capacity for clear communication and developing the appropriate mentality.
Chapter 2: The Fundamentals of Education
There are hundreds of educational theories and ideas. I break down the most important to their basic and easiest forms to understand and relate to. We also look at evaluations and criticism.
Chapter 3: How to Be a Successful Teacher
Being a teacher, instructor, or leader takes more than a title. We explore how I have found success at motivating, managing, and collaborating and how I have failed miserably.
Chapter 4: Who Are Your Students?
It is extremely important to understand who you are trying to train and bring into your organization. We explore the differences in generations, economics, and life experiences.
Chapter 5: How to Educate in Emergency Services
Establishing an educational environment when life-or-death decisions are made can be a challenge. We explore how to break the situational awareness factors down simply, how to use field training, and how to use real-life scenarios to create a more tangible difference.
Chapter 6: Why Creating a Team is Important
We'll never work alone in this field so creating a team mentality is imperative. We look at friendly competition, comradery, working with other agencies, and how to make the job fun.
Chapter 7: The Best Way to Communicate
There is a universal truth that communication is key. We will look at the process of communication and how to best get your message across for all the hear and understand.
Chapter 8: What You Do Matters
How we present ourselves can drastically affect our success. Our ego, our health, and our ability to realize our importance in the process all make a difference.
Chapter 9: The Toughest Conversations Can Be the Most Critical
Have you trained on how to deal with death, stress, and the issues that come with it? We take a hard look at the challenges and the "unspoken" dark issues within the emergency services.
Chapter 10: Where Do We Go from Here?
Finding your way will take time, energy, and failure. However, we must all look back on our experiences and learn from them in order to get better and become an improved version of ourselves.
Companion Workbook
Further your learning...
The "Two Dark Thirty" companion workbook is intended to strengthen and expand your comprehension of the primary material. The workbook, written by author Marc Hill, leads you through each chapter with challenging questions and exercises that push you to apply what you've learned. The workbook includes supplementary material to help enhance your study while also reinforcing important ideas.
You will significantly improve your understanding of the material if you use the workbook as a proper companion to the main text. Its thorough structure will assist you in putting what you've learned into practice, giving you the confidence to go out and inspire, teach, and learn.
