MEETING DATE
10/23/2014 |
BUREAU SUBMITTING THIS REPORT
Training Program Services Bureau |
RESEARCHED BY (PRINT NAME)
Larry Ellsworth |
REVIEWED BY (PRINT NAME)
Jan Bullard |
REPORT DATE
05/23/2014 |
APPROVED BY
Robert A. Stresak |
DATE APPROVED
10/08/14 |
PURPOSE
Decision Requested |
FINANCIAL IMPACT
No
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| ISSUE: |
| Should the Commission authorize the Executive Director to amend the language in POST Regulation 1009, to provide a process for re-qualifying instructors of the Regular Basic Course who do not complete the re-certification requirement of the Academy Instructor Certificate Program (AICP) within the triennial period? |
| BACKGROUND: |
Effective March 1, 2008, POST Regulation 1009 required all presenters of the Regular Basic Course to participate in the Academy Instructor Certificate Program (AICP).
Effective January 1, 2011, each Regular Basic Course – Modular Format presenter, was also required to comply with the regulation. Regulation 1009 specifies the training that must be completed and instructional hours that must be taught within a designated time frame. January 1, 2014 was the first time instructors who had not completed the requirements could fall out of compliance with the AICP regulation.
Regulation 1009 does not provide a method for instructors who have fallen out of compliance with the AICP requirements to re-qualify. |
| ANALYSIS: |
Regulation 1009 describes the AICP requirements as well as the triennial re-certification requirements. The regulation does not provide instructors who did not complete their re-certification requirements prior to the end of the cycle a method to regain compliance.
Staff discussed this issue with the Instructor Standards Advisory Council (ISAC) and the Consortium of academy directors and coordinators. There was consensus that instructors should complete additional training that would refresh and enhance their facilitation and related perishable skills in order to reestablish compliance with the requirements of the AICP. Repeating the originally required Instructor Development Institute (IDI) Level 1 course (AICC) would not enhance their training and, would not be reimbursable taken a second time. Based on the input of stakeholders, Staff recommends that instructors who are out of compliance for any reason should be required to successfully complete the 24-hour IDI Level 2 (Intermediate) Core Course in order to re-qualify as an instructor in the RBC, which includes both the Standard and Modular Formats.
The IDI Level 2 Core Course provides advanced instructional techniques and includes a teach back component that allows the students' faclitiation skills to be evaluated.
In lieu of completion of the IDI Level 2 Core Course as the means of reestablishing qualification as an instructor in the RBC, staff also recommends that the proposed regulation provide for an equivalency process. The equivalency process provides that an experienced instructor development trainer skilled in competencies emphasized in the Academy Instructor Certification Course curriculum may assess an instructor's competency by observing the instructor teach and assessing the instructor's performance through the use of the Competency Verification Checklist, POST 2-123.
Instructors who are out of compliance cannot instruct in the Regular Basic Course or the Modular Format until they have successfully reestablished compliance with the proposed requirement of Regulation 1009.
The proposed regulation is contained in Attachment A. |
| RECOMMENDATION: |
| Staff recommends the Commission authorize the Executive Director to amend the language of POST Regulation 1009, to provide a process for re-certification of instructors of the Regular Basic Course who do not complete the re-certification requirement of the AICP within the triennial period? |
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