HPER 3100 Final Assignment

HPER 3100 Final Assignment

Project Need:

Many of the courses offered within HPER involve learning experiences that take place outside of the classroom (for example, internships at a hospital or fitness center, teaching lessons at local schools, outdoor skill instruction at Bagley or on Lake Superior, overnight camping trips, instruction at the pool or in the gym, etc.). While there is much value in using a range of indoor and outdoor environments to enhance the learning experiences for students, these learning experiences involve risks that are different from those that are a part of learning inside the traditional classroom. To date, the department does not have a policy or procedures to guide faculty who take students outside the classroom as a part of the courses they teach. Your job will be to provide HPER with a policy for one of the topics below. Your work will be submitted to the Department’s Risk Management Committee, who will be using your work as a starting point as they proceed with developing a risk management plan for the department.

Topics:

1.  Educational experiences within HPER academic coursework taking place outside of the traditional classroom but indoors on campus property (pool, gym, climbing wall, etc.)

2.  Educational experiences within HPER academic coursework taking place outside of the traditional classroom but outdoors on campus property (Bagley, aquatic center, etc.)

3.  Educational experiences within HPER academic coursework taking place off-site (off campus property) and occurring in one day or less (class field trip to St. Mary’s Fitness Center or Jay Cook State Park, etc.)

4.  Educational experiences within HPER academic coursework taking place off-site and occurring overnight (outdoor leadership trip to the Badlands, etc.)

5.  Education experiences within HPER academic coursework taking place off-site and occurring over a longer period of time (internships, volunteer experiences, etc.)

Logistics:

·  You will be working in small groups (6 people per group). Your group will be acting as a risk management committee charged with developing a policy for one of the above topics.

·  You will have the following class periods to work on it: 4/5, 4/28, and 5/5; you will need to work on this outside of class, as three class periods won’t be enough to complete the project. There is no class scheduled on 4/21, so this could be an optional meeting time if you are having trouble finding times to meet outside of class.

·  You will be turning in a written report of your policy (see outline below) and presenting your policy through a 15-minute powerpoint presentation.

·  DUE DATE: May 12 (Thursday) at 2:00 (scheduled time for final exam)

·  The written product will be worth 20 points (replacing the assignment “Risk Management Critique”, and the presentation will be worth 20 points (replacing the final exam).

Resources to get you started:

·  Your textbook and class notes

·  Readings posted on course website (I’ll make one copy available per group)

·  Library research

·  Interviews of faculty/staff at this university or others

·  Web searches

*You should be using credible, professional sources and providing citations when appropriate!

Project Outline:

This is a guide! You may find that you need to insert other materials or that a slightly different order makes more sense. Concentrate on providing the best, most accurate information you can (rather than arbitrarily making a policy, try to research either industry standards or what other university’s are doing, or if UMD has a campus wide policy); keep in mind that your work will be provided to the department’s risk management committee!

I.  Title Page (“Policy for …” inserting your topic); title, date, group members

II.  Introduction

A.  Describe what your topic includes, providing examples of types of courses and learning experiences that fall within your topic, locations of these learning experiences, etc.

B.  Set the context for why risk management should be considered by stating your philosophy regarding risk, risk management, and or safety as it applies to HPER academic coursework and your topic – see class notes and examples in text or website on goal statements or philosophy statements for risk management

III.  Supervision of the educational experience

A.  Who should be supervising students

B.  Qualifications

C.  Certifications (when are they required and what are required)

D.  Ratio of staff/faculty to students

IV.  Transportation (if applicable)

A.  What vehicles will provide transportation (when personal vehicles of students or faculty are used and when UMD vehicles are used)

B.  Driver requirements (licensed, DMV record screening?, insurance?)

C.  Vehicle requirements (current registration, license, insurance)

D.  Use of 15-passenger vans and safety precautions

V.  Incident/accident reporting

A.  What happens when there is an accident; how process is different for non-serious and serious injury; what to do if the situation involves a behavioral incident and not an accident

B.  Copy of the blank report form (see UMD website http://www.d.umn.edu/ehso/emergencies/injury.htm)

C.  Example of a completed report form

VI.  Equipment/Facilities

A.  Circumstances where instruction on equipment/facilities is needed before use

B.  Storage of equipment (special storage requirements as relevant – fuel bottles, for example)

C.  Who is responsible for maintaining/inspecting equipment and information regarding record keeping (a maintenance log)

D.  Activities and facilities requiring safety equipment

VII.  Risk Analysis and Management Systems (RAMS)

A.  Describe purpose for

B.  Describe process of RAMS form (who checks location/equipment for hazards and when, who completes form, who signs or gives approval, what information must be included, who carries them, how long they are kept, etc.)

C.  Provide blank RAMS form (you can use the one provided in class, or modify your own)

D.  Provide examples of RAMS forms for two activities (one related to recreation, one related to health/physical education)

E.  Describe other information or procedures relating to emergency response process and safety equipment

F.  Provide example(s) and describe process of using assumption of risk documents (waivers, agreements to participate, and assumption of risk): which should be used and when (if applicable)

G.  Provide description of search and rescue or evacuation plan (if applicable)

H.  Provide chain of command (names of numbers for responding to an emergency – who is contacted); you might use the Outdoor Program’s yellow sheet on emergency procedures for a starting point

I.  Other strategies for managing risk (if applicable)

VIII.  Review

A.  Describe how often this policy will be reviewed and by whom

B.  Describe who will be responsible for insuring the policy is followed and reviewed

IX.  Other (other related documents, materials, if applicable); in some cases a summary checklist might be useful

X.  References (for all citations in the text, list the sources from which the information came in this section)

Topic:

Group Members:

Name / Phone / Email

Group Leader (it will be your responsibility to make sure group members are contributing equally, work is being divided fairly, and that you’re on track for finishing by the due date):

Work Plan:

4/5:

·  Figure out plan of attack; divide responsibilities/sections of report

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4/28:

·  Share what individual members or teams have been working on

·  Determine how individual pieces are connecting; check where things worked on independently fit or don’t fit with what others have done

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5/5:

·  Share progress; determine what else is needed

·  Determine who will be responsible for putting together the final paper and who will submit text for what sections

·  Determine who will put together the ppt presentation and who will present what parts

5/12 – paper and presentation due