Effecting sustainable and long-term change as true professional development requires a strategic and targeted approach.

If you answer 'yes' to any of these questions, this session is for you:

✔️ Are you a VET trainer looking for ways to enhance your professional development and stay ahead of the curve?
✔️ Do you want to learn how to align your PD plans with industry needs?
✔️ Do you want to know how to use VET capability frameworks to your benefit?
✔️ Do you want to explore contemporary PD options and techniques that can help you achieve your career goals?
✔️ Do you know of how Industry 4.0 is impacting skills needs? (and the teaching of those)
✔️ Are you looking for ways to get organisational support for the PD you have to undertake??

✔️ Are you a leader that needs to ensure the above is embedded in the practices of your team? 



Join this session to learn about:

  • The benefits of planning and managing opportunities for currency and ongoing development 

  • Techniques to be more strategic in the planning process

  • How to align your selected PD so it meets current and future industry demands

  • Options beyond a piecemeal or one-off approach to your professional development

  • Getting the support of your organisation


Plus, if you’re a leader or manager of trainers/teachers, this session will also include valuable guidance for:

  • Strategies to encourage and support your team to leverage, monitor and track their ongoing PD and lifelong learning

  • Adding value to your organisation through the benefits of:

    • Building workforce capability 

    • Career progression and succession planning


Carry forward the PD for those in leadership roles with the session: Mentoring experienced teachers, trainers and assessors


Learn how to move your VET PD activities beyond simply meeting minimum currency requirements in the Standards for RTOs 2015



Support for TAE currency requirements


Principles of planning VET PD are mandatory requirements in both the Certificate IV in TAE and the Diploma of VET.


  • The unit, TAEPDD401 Work effectively in the VET sector is a core unit in the TAE40122
  • The unit, TAEPDD511 Maintain and enhance professional practice is a core unit in the TAE50122


TAEPDD401 is also contained within the:

  • VET Delivered to School Students Teacher Enhancement Skill Set

  • Work Skill Instructor Skill Set


As part of demonstrating competency for TAEPDD401 you will be required to:

👉 Plan to improve own professional practice (Element 4)

👉 Develop a plan to build and maintain vocational competency and industry currency, and skills and knowledge required for the delivery of vocational training including digital skills (PC4.5)

👉 Develop a plan for own development, including identifying opportunities for professional development to improve professional practice and knowledge (PE1.3)


This is a session that will give you the underpinning knowledge to fulfill these requirements


Other Details:

Recorded - May 2023

Duration - Approx. 60 mins

Access - 30 days from date of purchase (*annual for Education Matters PRO and Elite subscribers)


Past Feedback:

Here's what others who watched this session had to say:

  • "The simplicity of the explanations and breakdown on how to consider PD was great!"
  • "This showed that it pays to consider technical strategies and approaches to something we are all required to do"

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