VET SECONDARY METHOD

EDU4VTM

2020

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

This subject is designed to establish a knowledge and skill base for pre-service teachers in the areas of curriculum, pedagogy, planning, assessment, evaluation and reporting for application in Vocational Education and Training (VET) programs provided to students in the senior years of secondary schooling (Years 10-12). The unit is designed to develop pre-service teachers' understanding of contemporary theory, concepts and skills in VET as applied in the school context with a particular focus on developing multiple pathways into workplaces and further education. Theoretical concepts, pedagogical principles, national Training packages and state accredited curriculum structures within VET programs are examined and applied in the design, implementation and evaluation of learning resources that are responsive to the needs of diverse learners.

School: Education (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Karen O'Reilly-Briggs

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: No

Subject year level: Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG

Exchange Students: No

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: Certificate IV in Training and Assessment or an approved equivalent. Occupational Health and Safety knowledge to deliver the particular Certificate subjects of competence, where appropriate.

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Learning resources

Training in Australia

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Recommended

Author: Tovey, M and Lawlor, D.

Year: 2008

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Publisher: PEARSON EDUCATION

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Vocational education: purposes, traditions and prospects

Resource Type: Book

Resource Requirement: Recommended

Author: Billett, S.

Year: 2011

Edition/Volume: N/A

Publisher: SPRINGER

ISBN: N/A

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Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the general nature of vocational learning, Vocational Education and Training (VET and competency-based training (CBT).

02. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the Australian national VET system. Including the quality systems, the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), Registered Training Organisations, Qualifications, Training packages, Units of competency, and Recognition of prior learning (RPL).

03. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how VET programs are run within secondary education and in secondary schools. Show understanding of how VET programs relate to Senior secondary certificates, such as School based apprenticeships and traineeships (SBATs), VCE VET programs, Block Credit programs, and regimes for scored assessment.

04. Critically analyse, plan, synthesise and implement a range of vocational learning and teaching activities and sequences for senior secondary students (Years 10-12). These include a variety of pedagogical approaches and resources (including safe and ethical pedagogy, integration of literacy and numeracy and use of resources including ICT appropriate to state and national curricula.

05. Rationalise, describe, design and evaluate a unit of work involving a variety of teaching strategies that cater for individual differences in student learning across the full range of abilities in Vocational Education and Training.

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Week 09-18, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Karen O'Reilly-Briggs

Class requirements

Lecture/WorkshopWeek: 9 - 18
Four 7.00 hours lecture/workshop per study period on weekends during the day from week 9 to week 18 and delivered via face-to-face.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	Category	Contribution	Hurdle	%	ILO*
Explanatory report = 1250 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	30	SILO1, SILO2
Design for a unit of work = 1500 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	40	SILO1, SILO3, SILO4, SILO5
Explanatory essay = 1250 words	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	30	SILO3