Skills Education

Move beyond course completion and help learners recognise, capture and communicate the learning that matters

Completing a course or qualification tells us that learning has taken place, but it doesn’t always help learners explain what they actually know and can do. Valuable evidence can sit unnoticed in assessments, projects, workplace activities and everyday learning experiences, while learners struggle to translate these experiences into language they can use beyond the course.

Helping learners recognise and capture their learning can make that learning more useful and portable. By reflecting on what they have done, identifying the skills and capabilities they have developed, and selecting meaningful evidence, learners can build a clearer picture of what they bring to employment, further learning and other opportunities.

This session explores practical ways trainers and assessors can build reflection, evidence capture and skills articulation into existing learning activities. We’ll look at different forms of evidence, how learners can connect evidence to what they know and can do, and simple approaches for helping them communicate their capabilities with greater confidence.

Through practical examples and easy-to-implement activities, you’ll explore ways to move beyond completion as the end point and help learners leave with meaningful evidence of their learning that they can understand, explain and use.

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

• Help learners recognise the skills and capabilities developed through their learning
• Identify different forms of evidence that can demonstrate what a learner knows and can do
• Build simple reflection and evidence-capture activities into existing learning
• Support learners to articulate and communicate their learning for employment, further learning and recognition

Participants will receive a complimentary copy of “Making Learning Visible: Evidence and Reflection Activities”:

• A practical guide with simple activities and prompts to help learners identify what they have learned, capture meaningful evidence and articulate the skills and capabilities they have developed. It includes adaptable approaches that can be incorporated into existing learning, assessment and workplace activities.

Other value options for registration:

Register for this session as a one-off standalone PD purchase OR via one of:

An Education Matters Elite membership

A PD MAX 2027 ticket