Cycle training Unit standards for consultation - your input wanted

Please find attached a draft of the unit standards from the Qualification Development Panel meetings held in October and November. It is now time for us to share the draft unit standards with relevant others and the member organisations that we represent.   

Please respond with any comments, by Wednesday 16 December, Dear All;

Please find attached a draft of the unit standards from the Qualification Development Panel meetings held in October and November. It is now time for us to share the draft unit standards with relevant others and the member organisations that we represent.   

Please respond with any comments, by Wednesday 16 December, to Tracey-Lee Burkhart at Skills Active New Zealand.  tracy-lee@skillsactive.org.nz

Kindest regards
Marilyn Northcotte

Tags: 
cycle training
NZQA
Groups audience: 
Cycle Training Network
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Microsoft Office document icon Unit 1_instructionQDP.doc47 KB
Microsoft Office document icon Unit 2_prepareQDP.doc46.5 KB
Microsoft Office document icon Unit 3_TrafficQDP.doc45.5 KB
Microsoft Office document icon Unit 4_bike handling skillsQDP.doc43 KB
Microsoft Office document icon risk-management-20146.doc45 KB

Comments

Submitted by Patrick on 7 December, 2009 - 17:34

Do we want to see some tiering, e.g. these Unit Standards could apply to senior / supervising instructor but not assistant / junior instructor.
Our goal should be to maximise access to quality training, not to deter instructors.

Submitted by maxHB on 15 December, 2009 - 18:31

no tiering, just have cycle skills trainers, and cycle skill training trainers.
ie no need for tiering.
max

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Submitted by Rob-Commuterdin on 15 December, 2009 - 21:12

My name is Robin, I am a psychiatric nurse who completed the CAN-NZTA 3-day cycle skills training in Wellington last December. I use the skills learned in that training to train adults with mental health issues within a hospital setting.

I was a little disappointed in not having more time to leave feedback on this so I've really only had the chance to scan it briefly.

I think there needs to be a real separation between Adult and Child cycle skills training, as mentioned above I work purely with Adults with Mental Health Issues within a Hospital setting, our organization has very robust yet different concepts of risk management, our risk management strategies are very individualized. The overall tone of the unit standards appear to be school-based and this does not reflect what I do, or what some of the others I was with on the instructors training course do.

Also I was confused at advanced and level 3 when it appeared to be covering what we were taught at level 2, is this just a broad outline to cover level 1,2 and 3?

Under the section "the cycle instructor is expected to be able to" it talks about being able to 'demonstrate knowledge of road environments, such as evidenced by holding a current drivers licence' - are we discriminating against instructors who choose to live a car-free lifestyle? Surely adequate knowledge of the road code/road rules would do? :)

Overall though this is good stuff, just lets have more time to discuss it and a few more idiot guides for those of us who don't work in this area of developing educational strategies!

Cheers

Robin

Submitted by Patrick on 22 December, 2009 - 17:40

Thanks for the input.

Rob:
"Also I was confused at advanced and level 3 when it appeared to be covering what we were taught at level 2, is this just a broad outline to cover level 1,2 and 3?"
NZQA uses 'level' in a different way to cycle training guidelines, so NZTA proposes to rename them as 'grades'. i.e. Grade 1 is off road, etc.

"Under the section "the cycle instructor is expected to be able to" it talks about being able to 'demonstrate knowledge of road environments, such as evidenced by holding a current drivers licence' - are we discriminating against instructors who choose to live a car-free lifestyle? Surely adequate knowledge of the road code/road rules would do? :)"
I agree.

CAN is concerned that the Unit Standards are inappropriate for many people who want to work as Cycle Trainers, therefore we favour tiering, where Standards apply to senior or supervising instructors, but not to assistants.
It's not realistic to expect parent or teacher helpers to go through the Unit Standards route.