Before completing the Bush Instruction Assessment you must have completed and passed
- Personal Skills Assessment
- Plan and Prepare Assessment
- Logbook has been submitted with 40 days minimum logged experience
The purpose of this task is for you to demonstrate your ability to lead a group on an overnight bushwalking experience Assessment requirements
- You have a group of 4 to 12 students
- You are delivering your instruction at an organisation that has an induction, training, and staff competency check or appropriate supervision included in their safety management system.
- You are operating within the scope of the qualification
- You have either an evidence verifier or an assessor confirmed with your tutor who is present during your trip.
- Industry good practice
- The organisation's safety management system standard operating procedures
- Tikanga and kawa of local iwi and hapu as it is applied to the environment
Assessment of your leadership primarily uses video evidence.
You will record yourself demonstrating the tasks set out below and submit the video for assessment
Qualification scope
This qualification will provide the outdoor recreation sector with individuals who are able to operate independently* and provide instruction and leadership for participants during specific outdoor activities. The emphasis of this qualification is on developing participants’ competence through safe, sequenced, learning experiences in dynamic outdoor environments.
Graduates of the Bush strand will also be able to:
Instruct participants in the skills required for a positive bushwalking experience through effective planning, delivery and evaluation.
Terrain must meet the following parameters:
− easy and moderate bush terrain;
− trips can extend above the bush line in easy and moderate terrain and in summer conditions (without snow and no snow forecast).
Patches of old snow may exist and can be crossed where no sliding potential exists.
*Independently means, you can demonstrate knowledge skills and practice to independently lead a group in a changing outdoor environment without supervision.