NVQ Courses Example Proforma

Activity: Orienteering

Working With Others

Element 1.3 You Carry out Your Work Effectively Towards Agreed Goals

What was the score target agreed by your team during the orienteering event? What part did you play in achieving that target?

Element 2.1 You Follow Work Methods Accurately

Describe two methods which you used for ensuring accurate navigation during the orienteering competition

Improving own Learning and Performance

Element 1.1 You can Confirm What you Think Your Targets are With the Person who set Them

How did you make sure that you knew what your role was within the team when planning the orienteering event

Element 1.2 You can Accurately Identify Your Strengths and Weaknesses

Give examples of your strengths and weaknesses as an orienteer, two examples for each

Element 1.3 You can use the Right Sort of Evidence to Identify Your Strengths and Weaknesses

Give two examples of evidence used to identify your strengths and weaknesses during the orienteering session

Element 1.4 You can Give Information for Setting Targets About Improving Your Learning or Performance

Give three examples of targets you set for yourself in order to improve your orienteering

Element 2.1 You can Follow the Agreed Programme and Meet Targets

Briefly describe the programme of training events which occurred before you were able to take part in the orienteering competition

Element 2.3 If Your Supervisor Recommends a Change to the Programme, you can Sort This out Without Wasting too Much Time

If your instructor had reduced the time allocated for the orienteering score event by 15 minutes, what action would you have taken to ensure that your team still scored maximum points?

Communications

Element 4.1 You Select and Read Materials for a Clearly Understood Purpose

Use the orienteering map to describe to your supervisor why you chose three of the controls you visited and why you chose the route you took to each one

Element 4.2 You Extract Information Accurately From the Written Material

Write a description of how to get from check point A to check point B which someone could use to get there safely if they didn't have a map

Element 4.3. You use Appropriate Sources of Reference to Clarify Your Understanding of the Subject

The orienteering map that you will have used will have a key to the symbols that are used on the map

Give a description (drawing and meaning) of a symbol that you did not understand on the map and needed to refer to the key to understand its meaning