INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Find your state’s department of health and human services online or in person for information on how you can work towards your EMT certification. Check the list of requirements you need to obtain to help you formulate a plan to achieve your goal in a timely manner. Some of the basic requirements that EMTs to start their certification include:  Being 18 years of age or older. Having a high school diploma or GED certificate. Submitting an application to a training course. Undergoing fingerprint and criminal history checks. Contact your local Red Cross, health organization, or educational institutions to see if they offer basic life support courses for healthcare professionals. Enrolling in one of these courses can introduce you to foundational information you’ll need to become EMT certified, such as CPR. It also can help you succeed in your EMT training course or get practical experience as you work towards your certification. Basic life support classes may also teach:  Basic CPR. First aid. Patient assessment and stabilization. Every EMT must pass a basic training course to progress to other levels of EMT certification.  Contact your local EMS field office to ask about available EMT courses in your area. Apply for and then sign yourself up for the EMT basic program that best fits your lifestyle. Take the number of course hours required to prepare you for your certification exams. This can vary between 100 and 200 hours depending on your specific program. Select classes that will help you understand and perform the following EMT requirements:  Basic CPR. First aid. Patient assessment and stabilization. Respiratory and trauma management. Anatomy and physiology. Basic life support. Cardiac management. You’ll also need between 15 and 30 hours of supervised clinical training to prepare you for real-life emergency medical situations. The clinical training will also help you pass the required psychomotor exam for your EMT certification. Ask your certification program where you can fulfill the supervised clinical training part of your certification. Join a local volunteer rescue squad or fire department (or at least get in touch with them). Usually you can join a fire department or rescue squad without being an EMT, and it's a great source of information for furthering your career. Many departments have Explorer programs for teenagers, which allow you a view on the inside to determine if it is right for you. Ask a local rescue squad or fire department if you can shadow them when you’re not studying or in your clinical training. Being able to observe professionals at work can help you better understand your duties as a certified EMT and gain insight into dealing with specific situations you may encounter.

SUMMARY: Check your state’s requirements. Take a basic life support course. Enroll in a state-approved EMT basic training program. Fulfill your course requirements. Perform supervised clinical training. Enhance your practical experience.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Take your 20-gauge square soft wire and clip six pieces eight inches (20 cm) long free. For centerpieces that are bulky or larger, you might need to measure out more wire. The central frame of your wire wrap should be:  Long enough to warp around the perimeter of your centerpiece. Thick enough to hold your centerpiece. Heavy/bulky centerpieces might require you to use more than six piece of wire. Line up the wires and draw them tightly together, making sure each is parallel to the others. Then should use your tape to bind the ends. This will keep your bundle in shape while you work with the wire. Depending on the contour of your centerpiece, you may find a rounded wire frame works best. In this example, the wire frame has been flattened to better contain the polished bead centerpiece. Lay out your bundled wire flat on your work space and, with your ruler, find the center of the bundle. Now, with your felt-tip pen, you should mark this point. This wire will be used to decoratively wrap around the middle mark you have just made on your bundle. Use your wire cutters to snip free a five inch (13 cm) piece of 22-gauge half-round hard wire. Use your flat-nosed pliers to grasp the piece of 22-gauge wire you cut free, then bend the wire around the bundle. After each winding, pull the wire tight while holding it against your bundle with your free hand. The bundle should be wrapped so there are no gaps in its twinnings, and should be equal length on both sides of your middle mark.  Grasping your wire close to its end with your pliers can make shaping it easier. After you finish your bundling, your middle mark should not be visible. This bundle will eventually make up the bottom of your wrap. The width of the finished binding should be approximately ¼" (6 mm) for a 12-carat stone, like the one used in this example. Use your ruler and felt tip marker to draw a line a ¼" (6 mm) from each edge of your center binding. Then make another mark a ¼" (6 mm) outward from each of your previous marks. These double marks on either side of your middle binding define the width of your next bindings. Now that you've got your middle binding in place and your lines drawn on each piece your six-wire bundle, you can remove your tape, as it is no longer needed to keep your bundle collected together.

SUMMARY: Cut your frame wires an equal length. Collect your newly cut wires together. Draw a line to mark the middle of your bundled wire. Cut your first piece of binding wire. Bind your six-wire bundle at its middle mark. Mark the next binding sites for your six-wire frame bundle. Remove the tape from the ends of the wire bundle.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: As your students work on their persuasive essays in class, walk among them, reading what they have so far and offering suggestions. This will help your students stay on track as they write, and prevents them from getting to the end of the writing process before they realize they might be doing something wrong. As your students are writing, have them swap their work with classmates for peer editing. Requiring your students to read one another's writing will give them a chance to view persuasive writing objectively. It also requires them to determine what is effective and what is not. They can apply what they learn from reading their classmates' work to their own writing. You may want to set aside a portion of your class time for this activity to help keep students focused on the task and prevent the class from getting too out of hand. Once your students have finished drafting their essays, let them turn them in to you for review. Allowing your students to submit their essays to you once before they “officially” submit them gives them a chance to get written feedback from you and incorporate that feedback before their essays are graded. Once your students have formally submitted their assignments, schedule some time for them to meet in small groups with their classmates to discuss their assignment. They can tell their classmates what they wrote about, what they found difficult and easy about the assignment, and how they might improve next time.

SUMMARY:
Walk around and read your students' work. Encourage your students to talk to fellow students. Edit your students' work. Plan a small-group assessment.