EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES
ETC is based firmly on adult learning principles:
- Learning from experience – drawing on 30-40 common trauma incidents within workshops
- Social constructivism – capitalising on existing knowledge, skills and affect, and building on this
- Situated learning – making the learning environment psychologically 'real' and located in day to day experience of candidates
- Group dynamics – with an emphasis on effective group management
Accordingly, the course is predominantly practical
- two lectures
- two faculty demonstrations
- well designed simulation workshops under the guidance of two instructors
- three team leadership exercises
- team leader assessment