Field Training Officers (FTO's) are responsible for helping recruits apply what they have learned in the Police Academy to real world situations.

Below FTO's work in small groups on:

• Case studies which help them to identify potential problems and work towards solutions with officers from several different agencies.

• Scenarios that depict typical situations that FTO's will face when they return to their respective departments. 

• Ethical decision making exercises that challenge them to think about decisions that they will be making in their roles as FTO's.

• Developing lesson plans that they will be able to use in their department's FTO program.

• Filling out Daily Observation Reports that are clear and subjective with the goal of giving feedback that will be helpful to the recruit while providing the department with a roadmap of that particular recruit's progress. 

• Identifying and working through remedial training issues that focus on recurring problems that a particular recruit is having trouble dealing with throughout the program.

• Learning to identify learning styles and modify their respective teaching style to fit the learning style of a recruit is a skill that FTO's work on in the one-week course.

• Identifying and working through action plans in preparation for each officer's return to their agency.