Teaching resources
Please check out these materials for use in your teaching! Feel free to ask us questions about how you're teaching your curriculum to your rescuers—or what you're teaching—together, Tom and Sarah bring more than two decades in higher education experience to the table, and we're looking forward to working with you!
The teaching resources archive is composed of four parts; navigate to the desired section with the dropdown menu to the left, or by clicking on the links below:
The teaching resources archive is composed of four parts; navigate to the desired section with the dropdown menu to the left, or by clicking on the links below:
- Lesson Plans:
These are lesson plans developed by professional educators that you can use in teaching rope related skills to your students. Feel free to use the lesson plans as is, or modify them to meet your specific needs. This archive is also great for generating lesson ideas! - Handouts:
These files are handouts you can use while teaching your students. Feel free to use them as is, or modify them to meet your specific needs. Also, please submit any great handouts you have to make the archive even better!
(See also the Technique Descriptions archive for additional possible classroom handouts) - Teaching Technique Descriptions
This page hosts descriptions of ways of teaching that can be implemented to teach rope related information. Most descriptions include explanations of how they can be utilized more effectively while teaching adult learners in professional learning contexts. - Technique Descriptions:
This archive has descriptions of how to perform a variety of techniques. These files are meant as educational documents, so can also be handouts in a class (supplemental reading?), however they are worded as training documents to teach specific techniques you may or may not be familiar with. - Presentations and Webinars:
After SAR^3 presents at meetings we attempt to archive as much of the presentations as possible. This archive provides teachers and students the opportunity to view, listen to, or otherwise experience any of the presentations we have given. - Posters:
We create posters to present some of our research at professional meetings, and we post them here in case you wish to print them and post them at your place of work or training (e.g., Fire Halls, Sheriff's Offices, etc.). - Small Party Assisted Rescue:
Most backcountry injuries are minor and can be taken care of by the injured party or their companions. This page provides teachers and students resources to learn SPAR skills. (This is also Tom's favorite rigging topic, so it gets its own page...)