Why Join This Course
Tutoring a student officer requires balancing operational safety with high-quality workplace learning. This focused, two-hour workshop strips away complexity to give you practical, usable tools for your daily shifts. Whether you are new to tutoring or an experienced practitioner looking to sharpen your skills, this course provides a structured framework to plan learning, observe objectively, and deliver feedback that genuinely improves performance.
Why It Matters
A student officer’s experience in the tutor phase sets the foundation for their entire policing career. Ineffective tutoring can lead to missed learning opportunities, unsupported underperformance, or unfair assessments. By mastering the core tutor functions—Instructor, Coach, Assessor, and Role Model—you ensure student officers build competence safely, meet national standards, and deliver high-quality public service.
How It Helps Operational Delivery & Evidence-Building
- Objective Record-Keeping: Learn to separate observable facts from subjective judgements, creating clear, defensible evidence packs for student portfolios and reviews.
- Early Recognition & Support: Quickly distinguish between routine learning gaps, welfare/health needs, and serious performance issues to trigger early force support.
- Targeted Coaching: Use a structured operational learning cycle to turn routine calls and shift interactions into immediate, measurable development opportunities.
Who Should Attend
- New Tutor Constables preparing to take on their first student officer.
- Experienced Tutor Constables seeking a refresher on current coaching methods, observation techniques, and feedback structures.
- Constables & Patrol Officers interested in developing their workplace coaching and supervisory skills for future progression.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this two-hour session, participants will be able to:
- Define the Role: Describe a tutor’s core responsibilities, professional boundaries, and the four key tutoring functions.
- Apply the Learning Cycle: Use a 6-stage cycle (Brief, Model, Enable, Observe, Feedback, Reflect) to plan and consolidate workplace learning.
- Record Factual Evidence: Distinguish observable facts from subjective judgements to maintain objective assessment records.
- Deliver Practice-Changing Feedback: Structure balanced, evidence-based feedback conversations that agree clear, actionable next steps.
- Manage Support & Escalation: Identify when a student officer requires learning adjustments, force welfare support, or formal policy escalation.
