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Bush Instructor Training

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Introduction & Overview Contents

▶ Welcome introduction 📄 Course overview

Teaching Bush Skills

▶ Teaching bush walking skills ▶ Shelters; setting up a fly ▶ Instructor Bush Day Pack

Preparing a group for tramping

▶ Gathering information on Pre-existing Medical Conditions, Injuries and relevant health information 📄 Checking Participants Gear and Equipment — Discussing management strategies with the group if the instructor becomes incapacitated. Including emergency communication devices and disclosing hazards to the group.

Skills to lead a group

📄 Group Management Strategies ▶ Hazard management strategies ▶ Instructing basic hiking skills including Movement, Pace, Rhythm & Safe movement on step terrain

Instructing Navigation

📄 How to Instruct: Map reading, including scale, symbols, contour lines, features, magnetic/grid north, grid references ▶ How to Instruct: Parts of a compass, taking a bearing to a feature and using it on a map ▶ How To Instruct: Following a bearing ▶ How to Instruct: Resection ▶ How to Instruct: Orienting a map with features and with a compass ▶ How to Instruct: Locating yourself on a map/navigating to a point 📎 Navigation Time Chart

Care for the environment and teachable moments

▶ Kaitiakitanga and Teachable moments ▶ Including Te Ao Maori into your trips

Camp Crafts

▶ Improvised Shelter Building 📄 Fire Lighting

Equipment, Clothing and Nutrition

▶ Types of cookers and managing groups working with them ▶ Clothing for multiday trips ▶ Setting your client's pack up correctly ▶ Teaching about Tents ▶ Instruction and Types Sleeping Equipment ▶ Instruction of Gas Stove Safety

Managing emergencies

▶ Land Search and Rescue: Missing people & strategies to avoid people getting lost ▶ Applying an organisations Emergency Response Plan

Teaching bush walking skills

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