VU23820 - Engage with complex texts for learning purposes

Unit code: VU23820 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours
30
Location
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to investigate pathway options and plan skills development to access pathways, in discussion with an appropriate support person. It requires the ability to collect information about pathway options, develop a formal learning plan and prepare and maintain a portfolio of evidence over time.

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:

  • interpret information about potential pathways
  • gather and use information to support development of the learning plan
  • apply learning strategies to achieve goals
  • identify, select and organise evidence for the portfolio
  • compare own skills to pathway options
  • select and organise evidence for portfolio
  • determine own learning approaches
  • evaluate own skills and knowledge to identify gaps
  • access and navigate digital texts
  • use digital devices safely and responsibly
  • search for information about pathways in a digital environment

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • complex syntactic structures with multiple clauses including abstract meaning, modality and complex tenses
  • linking devices to demonstrate conceptual connections and/or causal relationships
  • reading strategies to make meaning from texts
  • vocabulary related to learning including some specialised vocabulary to support comprehension
  • techniques used by writers to convey meaning and achieve purpose
  • factors that influence a text such as an author’s culture, experiences and value system
  • ways in which punctuation conveys emotions or intentions
  • strategies to critically analyse the validity of information in texts
  • differences in how paper based and digital information is represented

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 II in General Education for Adults
22691VIC | Certificate ii | Duration:

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