Exploring on-the-job learning

As promised, Under Construction will be including all compulsory Codewords articles to help LBPs earn their required points and stay up to speed with changes. This month’s article is required for all LBP licence holders – and focuses on another compulsory aspect of the scheme

Under the new skills maintenance scheme, reading Codewords articles relevant to your licence and answering the corresponding questions is a mandatory part of skills maintenance (for those who have renewed their licence since 2 November 2015).

Once you’ve read the article, answer the questions below or online at underconstruction.placemakers.co.nz.

Two in one

As more LBPs transition into the new skills maintenance system, LBP Registrar Paul Hobbs and his team are receiving increasing queries about the on-the-job learning component of the LBP scheme.

In response, they’ve put together two compulsory parts of the LBP scheme – a Codewords article and questions about on-the-job learning.

Why include on-the-job learning?

On-the-job learning was introduced as a simple method of recording naturally occurring learning that has taken place during everyday work onsite or in the design office. Many LBPs are practical people and learn by doing, rather than by sitting in a classroom.

The LBP licence class competencies have been written to reflect this, requiring action and the application of a skill in order to demonstrate understanding. For example, requiring LBPs to construct, install, fabricate, prepare, fix, set out or erect by way of ‘performance indicators’.

Where do I start?

The following table provides some useful pointers and questions to help recognise and harness on-the-job-learnings.

How do I keep track of my learning?

On-the-job-learning is not about creating more administrative work, rather it is about harvesting learning opportunities that arise during everyday work.

Here are some handy ways of keeping track of what you’ve learned:

• Go to www.lbp.govt.nz and either:
  

 

• Download, complete and submit the Record of Learning form.
• Submit your learning activity through the LBP portal.
  

 

• Provide a relevant Record of Work or Certificate of Design as evidence.
• Take a photo (this is an easy way to create a record to file later).