Description
The Advanced Stroke Life Support Instructor Essentials Online course is designed to prepare instructor candidates to teach the ASLS blended learning course. The Instructor Essentials course aims to educate instructor candidates on how to adequately use ASLS instructor teaching materials, ensure that students meet learning objectives, offer students coaching skills, provide an objective skills performance evaluation, and follow ASA Instructor and course policies. At the completion of this online course, the instructor candidates will be able to:
• Identify the prerequisites to becoming an ASA Instructor
• Describe the usability of the Program Administration Manual
• Describe the core competencies of an ASA Instructor
• Describe the 5 steps of an ASA Instructor: prepare, teach, test and remediate, close, and keep current
• Identify resources available to an ASA Instructor
• Describe how to use discipline-specific ASA Instructor materials: the Instructor Manual, course videos, stroke scales, and skills testing checklists
• Identify discipline-specific course formats available to students for completion of the course
• Describe discipline-specific course completion requirements
• Describe discipline-specific flexibility options available to an ASA Instructor within the course
• Describe the requirements for how to maintain an ASA Instructor status
• Describe effective ASA Instructor feedback and remediation techniques
• Demonstrate the administration of skills testing with the use of the skills testing checklists
