AMSEA Workshops For Teachers
and Other Youth Educators
Please see AMSEA's Course Calendar for all upcoming AMSEA courses, including workshops of interest to educators.
About the Workshops:
These workshops are designed for schoolteachers and others who work with children. They provide training in cold water safety and survival
skills, outdoor preparedness, and help with effectively integrating AMSEA's K-12 curriculum Surviving Outdoor Adventures (informally known as SOA) into classroom, swimming
pool, open water, and other settings.
These workshops can be scheduled on demand for eight or more individuals, usually in the location of the participants' choice. Currently, the workshops are available in the following formats:
NEW! Teaching Cold Water Safety & Survival
This is classroom portions only of an OSEW (See below.). Participants are taken through sample exercises from the extensive curriculum that includes cold-water safety and survival, small boat safety and survival and land safety and survival.
Completion of this course only does not qualify participants to borrow gear from AMSEA.
Completion of this course PLUS the practicum described below qualifies the participant to borrow AMSEA training gear as described at the bottom of this page.
Teaching Cold Water Safety & Survival is newly offered online through the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS).
Course length: Approximately 13 weeks
Price: Total cost of this graduate-level course (Course # ED 593) is $260. This includes $130 paid directly to UAS for 2 university credits. Registration takes place through UAS and a $130 course fee is paid directly to AMSEA.
You can register for this semester's course by first contcating AMSEA at 907-747-3287 and then contacting UAS at 907-747-6653 or toll-free 800-478-6653.
Outdoor Survival Educators’ Workshop (OSEW)
Training in cold water safety and survival skills, outdoor preparedness, and help with effectively integrating AMSEA's K-12 curriculum Surviving Outdoor Adventures into classroom, swimming pool, open water, and other settings. The 32-hour course includes classroom exercises, methods of instruction and use of AMSEA equipment in pool and outdoor settings. Successful completion of the course qualifies the participant to borrow AMSEA training gear as described at the bottom of this page.
Course length: 32 hours, typically over 4 days
Price: $460 for AMSEA members; $510 for non-members. Price includes 4-volume Surviving Outdoor Adventures curriculum.
Outdoor Survival Educators’ Workshop For Schoolteachers
Same course as described above. This shortened version is intended specifically for schoolteachers who need little or no methods of instruction.
Successful completion of the course qualifies the participant to borrow AMSEA training gear as described at the bottom of this page.
Course length: 24 hours, typically over 3 days
Price: $460 for AMSEA members; $510 for non-members. Price includes 4-volume Surviving Outdoor Adventures curriculum.
Expanded Outdoor Survival Educators’ Workshop
Same as the workshop described above, plus the coursework that qualifies participants to apply to become a U. S. Coast Guard accepted instructor for commercial fishermen. Designed especially for high school teachers who want to offer FV drill conductor courses as a vocational education.
This course is essentially AMSEA's Marine Safety Instructor Training reconfigured to meet the needs of teachers.
Course length: 5 or 6 full days
Price: $495 for AMSEA members; $550 for non-members. Price includes 4-volume Surviving Outdoor Adventures curriculum.
SOA Pool and/or Cold-Water Practicum
The hands-on pool or cold-water session and/or other outdoor exercises such as shelter-building that are typically part of an OSEW.
Completion of this course only does not qualify participants to borrow gear from AMSEA.
Completion of this practicum PLUS Teaching Surviving Outdoor Adventures as described above qualifies the participant to borrow AMSEA training gear as described at the bottom of this page.
Course length: Varies
Price: Varies by length and location
Topics
covered in Workshops For Youth Educators typically include:
Hypothermia
Includes
physiology, prevention, recognition and Alaska's most current emergency
medical treatment guidelines.
Preparation
for Boat and Land Trips
Covers
the "Seven Steps to Survival" (a priority listing of steps
to take during an emergency), weather, the role of preparation in dealing
with outdoor activities, float/trip plans, dressing, signals, shelters
and survival kits.
PFDs
and Cold Water Survival
Covers
PFDs, including immersion suits, exploring advantages and disadvantages of each
type, maintenance and storage. Also covers cold water survival skills, rescue
techniques, the latest on cold water near drowning and an overview of
factors that increase survival time in cold water. Students try a variety
of PFDs and skills in the pool.
Navigation
Covers
the basics of using compasses, charts and topographic maps.
Land
Survival
Includes survival shelters, signaling for help, and the "Seven Steps to Survival" as
they apply to shore, river bank or other remote land-based survival
situations. Practice giving maydays, building debris shelters, and
basic outdoor signals is included.
Ongoing Post-Workshop Support For Qualified Youth Educator Workshop Participants:
Please see AMSEA's Course Calendar for all upcoming AMSEA courses.
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