Skills Education

Do your young VET learners sometimes struggle to grasp key concepts or connect their learning to real-world applications?

For young VET learners to be successful in their training, they need to understand why they are learning something, and how this connects to what they already know.  They need more than just the content.

While  excellent adult learning principles, this does require more explicit teaching instructions for younger VET learners. Young learners need to develop a range of self-directed learning skills, which explicit teaching provides.

For VET trainers who are experts in their field, and experienced learners themselves, this may take a conscious effort to unpack their tacit or ‘unconscious competence’ when teaching young VET learners new key concepts and approaches.

Explicit teaching can also help to develop young VET learners’ language, literacy and number (LLN) skills when using industry specific terminology and numerical processes and concepts.

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Explain the difference between implicit and explicit teaching strategies, and why explicit teaching is important for young (novice) VET learners
• Understand how to convert your tacit (sub-conscious) industry knowledge and experience and convert it into explicit (conscious) instructions for young VET learners
• Select appropriate explicit teaching strategies for different learning situations

 Invest in the success of your young VET learners: Register today!

Registrants will receive a complimentary copy of the Guide to using explicit teaching to support young VET learners

Register for this session separately or as part of the

5 session bundle 'Supporting Young VET Learners'

Other Details:

• Recorded - February 2024
• Duration - Approx. 60 mins
• Access - 30 days from date of purchase (*annual for PD Library Pass subscribers, Education Matters PRO and Elite members)
• Trigger your certificate on completion

Past Feedback

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

• Excellent integration of theory with practice. Allison's referenced sources are contemporary and I like the way she adapts it for the session which makes it easy to assimilate within the webinar timeframe with the opportunity to research further using the weblinks provided. Allison models what she preaches, chunking and scaffolding and the charts and diagrams are excellent. A big thank you to Michelle @ Skills Education for providing an excellent suite of relevant webinars with top class presenters and for meticulously managing the chat.
• Session with real life examples. Easy to understand language
• Thanks for giving us specific strategies and resources we can use immediately