VU23789 - Identify community options

Unit code: VU23789 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours
20
Location
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to identify key aspects of the local environment to support everyday life. It requires the ability to locate and gather information on community places and services in a local area. This unit is designed for learners wishing to develop their basic knowledge of and ability to access information about local community services and as a means of developing their literacy and numeracy skills.

Assessment

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Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • access and interpret information on local community services and recreation options
  • use numerical information in familiar situations such as map directions, time, street numbers and/or costs
  • source and use digital information about services available in a community

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • reading strategies to engage with simple printed and / or digital texts about community services
  • features of maps to locate places, services and activities.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate I in General Education for Adults (Introductory)
22689VIC | Certificate i | Duration:

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