Outdoor Activities Instructor Legal, Social & Cultural Technicians

Sportive activities performed outdoors, often in nature, such as hiking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, canoeing, rafting, and rope course climbing.

Forces of nature, such as weather patterns and seasonal conditions, their characteristics and any means of protection against them.

Identify the learning struggles and successes of students. Select teaching and learning strategies that support students' individual learning needs and goals.

Manage the environment and athletes or participants to minimise their chances of suffering any harm. This includes checking appropriateness of venue and equipment and gathering relevant sport and health history …

Employ various approaches, learning styles, and channels to instruct students, such as communicating content in terms they can understand, organising talking points for clarity, and repeating arguments when necessary. Use …

Support and coach students in their work, give learners practical support and encouragement.

Present to others examples of your experience, skills, and competences that are appropriate to specific learning content to help students in their learning.

Stimulate students to appreciate their own achievements and actions to nurture confidence and educational growth.

Provide founded feedback through both criticism and praise in a respectful, clear, and consistent manner. Highlight achievements as well as mistakes and set up methods of formative assessment to evaluate …

Ensure all students falling under an instructor or other person's supervision are safe and accounted for. Follow safety precautions in the learning situation.

Positively foster athletes and participants' intrinsic desire to carry out the required tasks to fulfill their goals and to push themselves beyond their current levels of skill and understanding.

Follow up on students' learning progress and assess their achievements and needs.

Administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation or first aid in order to provide help to a sick or injured person until they receive more complete medical treatment.

Ensure that the necessary materials for teaching a class, such as visual aids, are prepared, up-to-date, and present in the instruction space.

Assess the nature and extent of injury or illness to establish and prioritise a plan for medical treatment.

Instruct students in the theory and practice of one or several outdoor sport activities, usually for recreational purposes, such as hiking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, canoeing, rafting, or rope course climbing.

Organise people and the environment to achieve desired objectives safely and efficiently.

Apply ropework to work in elevated position. Safely ascend and descend ropes, wearing a harness.

The methods used to understand speech by interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue for people affected by hearing impairment or to understand people from a distance.

Recommended Books

2 books

Lessons in Lip-Reading for Self-Instruction

Nitchie Edward Bartlett

2022

Manual of Lipreading

Mary E B Stormonth

2023

The monitoring of movement from a starting to a finishing point using a compass, rotated until the compass' orienting arrow aligns with the cardinal direction north represented by an 'N'.

Recommended Books

1 book

Wilderness Navigation

Bob Burns, Mike Burns

2025

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Various methods for safely fastening yourself during (rock) climbing activities using equipment such as carabiners, quickdraws, and harnesses.

The cooperation between people characterised by a unified commitment to achieving a given goal, participating equally, maintaining open communication, facilitating effective usage of ideas etc.

The process of attaching several objects, such as poles, together by use of rope, wire, or webbing often to secure or create a rigid structure, such as a self-fashioned table, …

Principle usually combined with a type of event that stimulates team effort, usually to complete certain assignments or to perform a recreational activity. This can apply to various kinds of …

Evaluate the students' (academic) progress, achievements, course knowledge and skills through assignments, tests, and examinations. Diagnose their needs and track their progress, strengths, and weaknesses. Formulate a summative statement of …

Encourage students to cooperate with others in their learning by working in teams, for example through group activities.

Identify the necessary resources needed for learning purposes, such as materials in class or arranged transportation for a field trip. Apply for the corresponding budget and follow up on the …

Provide participants with an appropriate programme of activities to support progression to the required level of expertise in the specified time taking into account relevant scientific and sport-specific knowledge.

Prepare content to be taught in class in accordance with curriculum objectives by drafting exercises, researching up-to-date examples etc.

Read maps effectively.

Act as representative of the institution, company or organisation to the outside world.

Employ rigging tools such as cables, ropes, pulleys and winches to safely secure high structures.

Work with a variety of target groups based on age, gender and disability.

Ascend and descend from trees in a safely manner.

Spark a passion for the natural character of fauna and flora and human interaction with it.

Guide participants on a nature walk on foot.

Use your memory of geographic surroundings and detail in navigation.

Use modern navigational aids such as GPS and radar systems.