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Independent Study

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IS-1200: TERT Team Leader Course

Course Date

12/2/2016

Course Overview

This online course is intended to provide guidance to first line supervisors of 9-1-1 operators, call takers, and dispatchers on what to expect when being deployed to a disaster site.

Course Objectives:

Clarify roles and responsibilities.
Improve teams and coordination.
Improve operational coordination.
Improve operational communications.

Primary Audience

First line supervisor of emergency management communications personnel.

Prerequisites

IS-0100; IS-0700; IS-0800; IS-0144 TERT Basic Course

CEUs:

0.4

Course Length:

4 hours

Take This Course

Interactive Web Based Course

Final Exam

Take Final Exam Online

Notices

Test questions are scrambled to protect test integrity