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Fire Instructor II study plan

Fire Instructor II · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Training program management and administration

  • Map the training program administrative cycle by listing approvals, scheduling steps, and stakeholder roles from annual plan through course close-out in a flow diagram.

  • Draft a one-page training policy outline covering instructor qualifications, course prerequisites, and cancellation criteria.

  • Calculate instructor-hours and student-hours for three recurring courses using enrollment counts and session lengths that you define in a table.

  • Identify five records a Fire Instructor II must maintain and state where each is stored, who may access it, and how long it is kept.

Your checkpoint

A two-page program administration package containing the flow diagram, policy outline, instructor/student-hour calculation table, and records-access matrix.

Week 2

Instructional design and curriculum development

  • Write three terminal objectives and six enabling objectives for a four-hour fireground communications course using observable action verbs with conditions and standards.

  • Build a lesson-plan outline that sequences the objectives into introduction, demonstration, guided practice, and evaluation.

  • Select two presentation methods and two student-centered methods, then justify each choice against objective type and class size.

  • Create a ten-item media and equipment list tied to specific lesson segments, including a backup option for each critical item.

Your checkpoint

A complete lesson-plan skeleton for the four-hour course with objectives, sequence, method justification, media list, and timing table.

Week 3

Instructional design and curriculum development & Training needs analysis and program evaluation

  • Conduct a task-level needs analysis for one job duty by breaking it into knowledge, skill, and attitude gaps.

  • Compare two evaluation frameworks and select one to evaluate a course at reaction, learning, behavior, and results levels.

  • Align each lesson objective to an assessment method and a data source in a matrix.

  • Draft three evaluation questions and specify the data collection method and responsible person for each.

Your checkpoint

A curriculum-evaluation matrix linking ten objectives to needs-analysis findings, assessment methods, and evaluation questions.

Week 4

Training needs analysis and program evaluation & Instructional delivery and instructor supervision

  • Design a six-hour instructional delivery plan that assigns lead and assistant instructors to each segment.

  • Write a five-item instructor-observation checklist covering safety, clarity, questioning, and time control.

  • Prepare a ten-minute coaching script for an instructor who consistently misses time targets.

  • Build a schedule that balances lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice for a twenty-student class.

Your checkpoint

A delivery and supervision packet containing the six-hour schedule, observation checklist, and coaching script.

Week 5

Instructional delivery and instructor supervision & Assessment and evaluation of student performance

  • Construct a twenty-item written test blueprint that matches objectives to item counts and cognitive levels.

  • Write five multiple-choice items with plausible distractors, one correct answer each, and a note identifying the objective measured.

  • Build a psychomotor skills checklist with critical pass/fail steps and a four-level rating scale.

  • Calculate a cut score for a twenty-item test using an Angoff-style panel of three judges and document each judge's ratings.

Your checkpoint

An assessment kit containing the test blueprint, five reviewed items, psychomotor checklist, and cut-score worksheet.

Week 6

Assessment and evaluation of student performance & Training records and documentation

  • Audit a ten-student grade book for accuracy by verifying item totals, weighting, and rounding against a written grading policy.

  • Create a records-retention schedule for written tests, skills checklists, attendance, and instructor evaluations with retention periods and owners.

  • Draft a corrective-action note for one student who failed a skills check, including remediation steps and a re-test date.

  • Map three confidentiality requirements to specific training records and access controls.

Your checkpoint

A records and assessment audit packet with the grade-book check, retention schedule, remediation note, and access-control table.

Week 7

Resource and budget management for training & Safety and risk management in training evolutions

  • Build a line-item budget for a two-day, twenty-student course covering instructor pay, facility use, consumables, and equipment replacement.

  • Calculate cost per student and compare two delivery options on total cost and resource use.

  • Write a risk-management plan for a live-fire or high-hazard evolution covering hazards, controls, emergency actions, and stop-work authority.

  • Draft a pre-evolution safety checklist covering PPE, apparatus, water supply, rehabilitation, and communications.

Your checkpoint

A resource and safety package containing the line-item budget, cost-per-student comparison, risk plan, and safety checklist.

Week 8

Training program management and administration & Instructional design and curriculum development

  • Complete a sixty-item cumulative practice exam spanning all eight domains and record the percentage by domain.

  • Re-teach the two lowest-scoring domains by rewriting five missed items into study notes with correct reasoning.

  • Build a one-page formula sheet for administrative and design calculations covering instructor-hours, cost per student, test blueprint counts, and cut scores.

  • Write a seven-day final review schedule that assigns daily study blocks to the two weakest domains.

Your checkpoint

A cumulative exam score report with domain breakdown, five corrected item notes, formula sheet, and seven-day review schedule.

Milestones

Week 2: Submit a complete lesson-plan skeleton with nine objectives and method justifications; self-score at least 8 of 10 on a checklist covering observable verbs, sequencing, and media alignment.

Week 4: Score at least 75% on a timed forty-question mixed-domain practice set and log every missed item by domain.

Week 6: Pass a records and assessment audit self-check: all ten grade-book entries reconcile and the retention schedule covers four record types with named owners.

Week 8: Score at least 80% on a sixty-item cumulative practice exam with no domain below 70%.