What is it about?
The aim of OPTION A is to build on your skills and to share the experience you have acquired since you gained certification. OPTION A will confirm, reinforce and assess the key learning outcomes of your initial training. It will also support the development of the more difficult and elusive skills demanded of decision-makers. You will be required to attend a one-day workshop and to complete a post-workshop assignment.
You will learn to:
• Identify the nature of issues arising from applications for resource consent
• Demonstrate systematic and appropriate questioning of witnesses and the testing and weighing of evidence
• Identify common decision-making biases and strategies to improve decision-making
• Make balanced contributions during deliberation, using appropriate decision tools
• Formulate reasoned decisions.
Who delivers the courses?
The Centre for Continuing Education has put together a great team of experienced facilitators to run the workshops. The team includes leading practitioners Jan Crawford, Ken Gimblett and Gay Pavelka, as well as Dorothy Wakeling, an experienced independent commissioner and Alison Wall, an experienced chair and an ex-mayor and city councillor.
How am I assessed?
You must attend the workshop and successfully complete a post-workshop assignment to achieve re-certification. After the workshop you will have four weeks to complete your assignment which requires you to reflect on situations and scenarios and detail your own approach to resolving them. You are likely to devote 5 to 10 hours to complete the assignment. Tutor support will be available.
Once assignments have been marked and moderated by an experienced team, certificates will be issued to those who have attended the workshop AND successfully completed the post-workshop assignment. Certificates will be valid for a period of FIVE years.
If you do not initially meet the course requirements you will be given constructive feedback, and invited to re-submit the post-workshop assignment. If you are still unable to meet the course requirements, you will be invited to undergo a verbal assessment of your understanding.
At re-certification you will be given an ‘Achieved’ or ‘Not Achieved’ grading. If you are advised that you have not achieved the requirements of the course, you will be able to re-enrol in a later round of re-certification. However, this outcome would suggest that you have not retained the skills required of decision-makers, and in such circumstances you would be strongly urged to enrol in the full foundation course, should you wish to maintain your certification.
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