TAELLN422 - Use foundation skills resources, strategies and advice

Unit code: TAELLN422 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours
30
Location
City Campus
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge needed to access and integrate foundation skills resources, strategies and advice in vocational training and assessment.



The unit applies to vocational education and training (VET) teachers, trainers and assessors who use a range of technical and training competencies to support the foundation skill needs of learners and candidates in vocational training and assessment. Foundation skills include the core skills and employability skills described by current authorised Australian foundation skill frameworks. Core skills include digital literacy, learning, reading, writing, oral communication, and numeracy skills. Employability skills include skills such as initiative and enterprise, planning and organising, problem solving, self-management, and teamwork.


This unit does not include the competencies used by experienced VET teachers, trainers and assessors to lead the development of foundation skill 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:

  • use foundation skill resources, strategies and advice to meet identified foundation skill support needs in vocational training and assessment as follows:
  • accessing and using foundation skill resources in training at least once
  • accessing and using foundation skill training strategies in training at least once
  • seeking and acting on foundation skill advice from a colleague with skills, knowledge and experience in foundation skills at least once during training or assessment.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • organisational procedures relating to using foundation skill resources, strategies and advice, including:
  • accessing foundation skill resources
  • working with experienced colleagues with skills, knowledge and experience in foundation skills
  • sources of foundation skill resources, strategies and advice
  • techniques to collaborate with sources of foundation skill support
  • features of good practice resources that address learner foundation skill support needs in vocational education and training
  • features of good practice training and assessment strategies that address:
  • requirements of nationally recognised training products
  • learner foundation skill support needs
  • responsibilities and limitations of own job role and practice in relation to providing foundation skill support in training and assessment
  • mechanisms to review effectiveness of foundation skill resources, strategies and advice, including:
  • methods to seek feedback on resources, strategies and advice
  • criteria for analysing own performance.

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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