Pritorizing and Evaluating

Prioritizing and Evaluating

Competencies Addressed in This Discussion

• Competency 1: Apply emergency planning procedure to critical incidents
• Competency 3: Specify evaluation techniques for emergency management response effectiveness.
• Competency 4: Correlate appropriate emergency management response to hazards and threats

Introduction

For this discussion you will review the four phases of emergency planning. With all the details and issues you have learned and presented over the past few weeks, this week we are asking you to zero in on a top priority for each phase and describe how you would evaluate them. Planning is necessary, but to ensure that planning is moving in the most effective direction, critical assessment and evaluation of your own and others’ ideas is required if your planning is to be successful. As you watched the video in this unit’s studies, Principles of Emergency Management: Planning and Coordination, you may have noticed that all the comments were filtered through the individual’s needs and point of view. An emergency manager has a big job with many relationships to manage!

Instructions

For your main post:

1. Propose a potential critical incident scenario for which you might be doing the emergency planning.
2. Point out the top priority issue that you feel is necessary for planning for this emergency in each one of the four phases.
3. Explain how you would evaluate each of your priorities.
4. Describe the criteria you would use to be assured that the priorities you have chosen for each phase truly are important, effective priorities.

Discussion Objectives

The competencies addressed in this discussion are supported by discussion objectives, as follows:

• Competency 1: Apply emergency planning procedure to critical incidents.
  • Propose a potential critical incident scenario for which you might be doing the emergency planning
• Competency 3: Specify evaluation techniques for emergency management response effectiveness.
  • Explain how you would evaluate each of your priorities.
  • Describe the criteria you would use to be assured that the priorities you have chosen for each phase truly are important, effective priorities.
• Competency 4: Correlate appropriate emergency management response to hazards and threats.
  • Point out the top priority issue that you feel is necessary for planning for this emergency in each one of the four phases.

Response Guidelines

Respond to two of your peers. Did you agree with the priorities they set for each phase for their chosen scenario? Why or why not? In your opinion, supported by personal and professional experience and research, were their evaluation techniques both appropriate and effective? Why or why not?

Resources

• CJ Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.
• Criminal Justice Undergraduate Research Guide.
• Community of Excellence.
• G.R.E.A.T. Discussion Guidelines.