Assignment: Table Talk Discussion (Add checklist as rubric add phone conference)

Radio Communications
2014-04-05T23:47:35Z

Due:

Now that you are familiar the process of engaging with Dispatch, Members will engage with Instructor(s) in a Tabletop Discussion. Evaluation will be based on group participation. Although answers will vary, the Group needs to demonstrate their ability to 1) acknowledge Dispatch’s page, 2) understand the location, 3) communicate they are en route, 4) communicate they are on the scene, and 5) assess the scene.

Goal: Members will demonstrate their ability as a group to engage with Dispatch, other Members of the department, and other departments using role-play techniques for a mutual aid fire call.

Directions: The Instructor will explain: “the following exercise is called a Tabletop Discussion, which is a simulation of an emergency situation in an informal, stress-free environment. You each have been assigned certain roles for this activity. The group will have 20 minutes to work through a scenario where all Members participate ‘around the table’ in discussion. Evaluation will be based on group collaboration as a whole after the 20 minutes in a debriefing to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.”

Then the instructor will display a satellite image depicting the location of a fire and read the following scenario out-loud:

It’s a September afternoon. Lightning from an overcast sky goes unnoticed. By dusk a wildfire is laying claim to corn crops near DeBoer Ag Service. A NW wind is blowing 20 mph and threatening to compromise the DeBoer complex. Dispatch receives a call from a Reporting Party and pages Oral Fire with the following:

“Oral Fire, 271 We have a report of a crop fire near Craig DeBoer’s at 14008 East Oral Road.”

Members should be encouraged to engage in the call as the scenario organically unfolds and prompted as needed to move the discussion along. The Instructor will use the “Tabletop Discussion: Checklist” to record the results of the discussion and use for debriefing.

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Now that you are familiar the process of engaging with Dispatch, Members will engage with Instructor(s) in a Tabletop Discussion. Evaluation will be based on group participation. Although answers will vary, the Group needs to demonstrate their ability to 1) acknowledge Dispatch’s page, 2) understand the location, 3) communicate they are en route, 4) communicate they are on the scene, and 5) assess the scene.

Goal: Members will demonstrate their ability as a group to engage with Dispatch, other Members of the department, and other departments using role-play techniques for a mutual aid fire call.

Directions: The Instructor will explain: “the following exercise is called a Tabletop Discussion, which is a simulation of an emergency situation in an informal, stress-free environment. You each have been assigned certain roles for this activity. The group will have 20 minutes to work through a scenario where all Members participate ‘around the table’ in discussion. Evaluation will be based on group collaboration as a whole after the 20 minutes in a debriefing to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.”

Then the instructor will display a satellite image depicting the location of a fire and read the following scenario out-loud:

It’s a September afternoon. Lightning from an overcast sky goes unnoticed. By dusk a wildfire is laying claim to corn crops near DeBoer Ag Service. A NW wind is blowing 20 mph and threatening to compromise the DeBoer complex. Dispatch receives a call from a Reporting Party and pages Oral Fire with the following:

“Oral Fire, 271 We have a report of a crop fire near Craig DeBoer’s at 14008 East Oral Road.”

Members should be encouraged to engage in the call as the scenario organically unfolds and prompted as needed to move the discussion along. The Instructor will use the “Tabletop Discussion: Checklist” to record the results of the discussion and use for debriefing.