VU24043 - Participate in travel activities
Nominal hours
Location
St Albans
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
(Corequisite units must be studied concurrently with this unit)
Overview
This unit describes the skills and knowledge to participate in travel activities and includes the ability to access and use travel information and select the most appropriate travel options. This unit applies to learners with intellectual disability who are looking to develop their independent travel skills. Learners at this level will require high levels of teacher/mentor support.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & 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 use travel information to compare and select the most appropriate mode of public transport to suit own travel purpose on two occasions.
- develop and implement a travel plan and contingencies to undertake safe travel on one occasion.
Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- advantages and disadvantages of different forms of transport to select most appropriate option.
- purpose of a travel plan.
- personal safety strategies to travel safely.
- essential travel items.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the 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):