TAEDEL412 - Facilitate workplace-based learning

Unit code: TAEDEL412 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours
25
Location
City Campus
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to prepare for, plan and facilitate workplace-based learning for learners in the workplace. It includes customising and implementing existing learning plans and resources based on products that are nationally recognised or aligned with other recognised frameworks, and reviewing own practice.


The unit applies to entry-level vocational education and training (VET) teachers and trainers who use facilitation and technical skills to facilitate learning in the workplace based on products that are nationally recognised or aligned with other recognised frameworks.

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:

  • develop a workplace-based learning plan for at least 3 different learners, with each plan incorporating activities sequenced to ensure safe and effective learning that leads to the required standard of work performance
  • facilitate workplace-based learning for at least 1 of the above learners using products that are nationally recognised or aligned with other recognised frameworks on at least 3 different occasions, where each occasion must:
  • be of at least 30 minutes’ duration
  • address a different performance outcome from the workplace-based learning plan.
    In the course of the above, the individual must:
  • demonstrate communication skills to build rapport with the learners
  • liaise with required workplace personnel.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • regulatory requirements relating to facilitating learning in the workplace
  • organisational procedures relating to facilitating learning in the workplace
  • systems for identifying skill development needs in the workplace
  • key components of a workplace learning plan, including:
  • learning activities and objectives
  • required safety arrangements
  • dimensions of competency and how they guide workplace-based learning practices
  • strategies and processes for identifying and organising foundation skills support for learners, including language, literacy, numeracy, digital literacy and employability skills, , including use of current authorised Australian foundation skills frameworks
  • facilitation techniques appropriate to facilitating learning in the workplace, and strategies for encouraging, including and engaging those who learn in different ways, including:
  • demonstration
  • instruction
  • questioning
  • coaching
  • supervised practice
  • strategies and techniques for engaging and liaising with other workplace stakeholders
  • types of workplace constraints and distractions and how to manage them
  • learning theories and adult learning principles and their application to facilitating learning in the workplace
  • strategies and techniques for identifying and supporting workplace-based learners with additional learning needs, including:
  • reasons that some learners may require additional support
  • support strategies for different types of need
  • evaluation, review and reflection techniques
  • workplace training pathways, including apprenticeships and traineeships
  • work health and safety (WHS) responsibilities relating to workplace-based learning, including supervision and support.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the VU Learning Management System (LMS) called VU Collaborate.

As part of a course

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

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
TAE40122 | Certificate iv | Duration:

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