Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 7:09 am
What’s more important: Credentials or experience?
What best prepares a firefighter for the job? Classroom lectures? Experience through on-the-job training? Both? Neither? Each option has its proponents and its opponents. There have been discussions (and at times, heated debates) about experience versus credentials at firehouse kitchen tables all over the country for years.
What we are really talking about is training. What training method works best? What training method works best for you? Before you answer, think about the last time you learned something. For decades, people have been studying the ways, the means, and the methods that we humans learn “stuff”. After all this research, they came up with a blinding flash of the obvious: It depends.
In this “Kitchen Table Debrief” I will talk about the various methods we use to learn new things, and how we can best ensure our organizations implement the principles and methods to help everyone continue to learn and grow.
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This debate is not much unlike the one of ” Certified ” for a particular task and “Qualified”. Many firefighters are certified in certain disciplines, but when was the last time they trained on that particular skill set. The old saying is true, if you don’t use it you will surely loose it. If a firefighter has not utilized his or her skills in a certain discipline for a period time and are no longer proficient in them, are they really qualified to use them?
Just my thoughts!