Labour Relations
This is the best place to document performance issues.
What is the tracking log / on TMS?
These are three strategies that trainers can use to manage intrinsic cognitive load (i.e., the load that is inherent to any task that you are focusing on with a trainee, such as a teaching them how to make a traffic stop)?
What is segmenting, sequencing and self-pacing?
Adult learners bring this to the learning environment, which influences how they engage with new content.
What is prior experience?
When documenting performance, your description should always be this—focused on what was seen or heard.
What is observable behavior?
This leadership style emphasizes inspiring and motivating others toward shared goals and personal development.
What is transformational leadership?
The probationary period for a police officer begins and ends on which day?
What is on the day they/an officer is appointed and twelve months after their date of appointment.
This learning phenomenon explains why instructional strategies that benefit novice learners may no longer be effective as trainees develop expertise.
What is the expertise reversal effect?
This learning principle encourages trainers to connect content to real-world scenarios that matter to the learner.
What is relevance?
These structured reports are used throughout the coaching phase to track and evaluate recruit performance.
What are progress reports?
FTOs must demonstrate this ability to build trust, listen actively, and guide recruits through challenges.
What is emotional intelligence?
Name two common forms of accommodation in employment pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code.
What are Medical accommodation and family status accommodations?
What are the three types of cognitive load that trainers need to be aware of?
What is Intrinsic load, Extraneous load, German load?
Adults prefer to be involved in planning and evaluating their instruction, a concept known as this.
What is self-directed learning?
Feedback should always include this component to help the recruit understand how to improve.
What is an action plan?
According to Kouzes and Posner, this practice involves celebrating the values and victories of the team.
What is "Encourage the Heart"?
Name three policies or legal obligations important to be aware of in your role as an FTO.
What are…
1 ) Policy obligations for supervisors under Workplace Harassment Violence and Discrimination Policy
2) Duty to report misconduct under the Community Safety and Policing Act
3) Roles & Responsibilities under the Coach Officer Policy (4.03)
These mental structures are essential for officers because they help store and process large amounts of information and enable quick, flexible decision-making in the field.
What are schemas?
This instructional model used in the FTO program includes five steps to support skill acquisition and retention.
What is EDIC (Explanation, Demonstration, Imitation, Critique, Confirm)?
A well-written assessment avoids assumptions and judgments and instead uses this approach.
What is a fact-based or objective approach?
The ability to influence without relying on authority, often through role modeling and clear communication, is known as this.
What is informal leadership?
Name the nine key LR principles to use in performance management
What are…
o Transparency
o Notice
o Document
o Timely
o Accurate/ use of examples
o Consistency
o Objective/tied to JD or competencies, etc.
o Does not touch upon a protected ground/proper framing
o Suitability/providing opportunities to demonstrate suitability/fitness
When providing feedback to trainees, these three characteristics help ensure that the feedback is effective, supportive, and goal-oriented.
What are: timely and regular delivery, task-focused and specific content, and a positive, unbiased tone?
What is a key reason adult learners need training to be relevant and connected to real-life tasks?
What is because adults are goal-oriented and motivated by learning that has immediate application to their job?
This acronym is used to guide the development of specific and measurable improvement goals.
What is SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound)?
Name one of the five practices of exemplary leadership besides “Model the Way” and “Encourage the Heart.”
What is “Inspire a Shared Vision,” “Challenge the Process,” or “Enable Others to Act”?