Skills Education

Monday, 20 March 2023

10:30 am - 11:30am (AEST)

We all know RTOs should offer recognition for any existing skills and knowledge to potential RPL candidates. But not every assessor reports feeling confident about supporting candidates in this process. In fact, many potential candidates report feeling so overwhelmed with the RPL process that they believe it’s “just easier to do the course."

So, what can RTOs and assessors do to better engage with potential candidates and support them to navigate an RPL pathway?

This session is aimed at providing information for RTOs and assessors to identify where and how persons with existing skills and knowledge can be guided through a recognition process. It will also explore some of the key touch points in current RPL processes that cause the potential candidate the most angst, before going on to identify strategies that can result in a fairer experience for candidates.

Tuesday, 21 March 2023

10:30 am - 11:30am (AEST)

Students come into the learning environment from a range of backgrounds and with varying abilities and needs. And training organisations and their staff have certain responsibilities to ensure everyone has the opportunity to access and participate in the learning.  

Join this session with Darlene to hear about ways to: 

• Make your organisation more inclusive

• Understand your legislative responsibility under the Disability Standards for Education

• Identify and implement inclusive teaching strategies to support students with disability

• Access the range of resources that support disability inclusion and different disability types

At the end of this session Darlene will also give a sneak preview into the newly developed ADCET resources specifically for students with disability in VET.

No matter your role, this webinar will give you the information you need to confidently include, engage and support students with disability in your learning environment.

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

10:30 am - 11:30am (AEST)

Most of us have been training online for the last couple of years – some even longer. But as the world becomes accustomed to ‘Zoom calls’ and ‘MS Teams’ does this automatically mean best-practice principles of online orientation and engagement are being applied in our delivery of online training and assessment?  

Care must be taken from the get-go to ensure no student is left behind. This session shows how to do it!

Explore:

• Ways to orient students to the online environment - even when you're not there 
• What 'presence' is and why it's important  
• Impact of digital skills/literacy levels on students' ability to navigate online systems - and how you can help
• Simple techniques you can use to support student confidence online

Thursday, 23 March 2023

10:30 am - 11:30am (AEST)

There are many reasons adults return to formal learning. For example, to work toward a new job, to upskill, or because it’s a workplace direction.

Trouble is, being adults, they've already got busy lives with work, family commitments and other responsibilities, and study is just another thing to fit into a day. They may also have expectations about the learning environment that don't match reality. They might be out of practice with formal approaches to teaching and learning. And, perhaps not everyone has the technology or skills to participate in modern training and assessment.

Sometimes you might even get adults in your classroom that don't want to be there but have to be. As a trainer, how do you deal with this reluctance and other challenges and turn it into something positive? 

Mick Gwyther has a strong history in Adult and Community Education (ACE) and VET and a wealth of experience in supporting adult learners to achieve in their courses!

Join Mick in this session for top tips and to learn more about: 

• How to deal with reluctant learners and engage students who are attending the class "because they have to"
• How to support students who are apprehensive about accessing or participating in the training sessions because of limited digital skills
• Techniques to keep busy adults participating as learners in your course and on track for completion
• Activity methods to gather measures of participation using adult learning principles
• Adapting your facilitation style as you go

Friday, 24 March 2023

10:30 am - 11:30am (AEST)

Adult learners bring increased complexity to the classroom – they have distinct expectations from, and motivations for, any learning they undertake, and they bring their life experiences and current circumstances to the learning arena. As trainers and assessors in VET, when we teach adults, we deal with these principles every day.

What’s interesting is that learning trends are moving away from teacher-led instruction to student-centred and social learning – some of the very same principles that underpin adult learning theory and relate to the andragogical model.

In this session, explore how to leverage these principles in your own practice to understand, encourage and engage your adult learners. Also, take a look at how digital teaching tools can support this kind of collaborative development of skills and knowledge.

Join this session to:

• Refresh on the characteristics of adult learners
• Update on key points within adult learning theory
• Examine various instructional approaches that support adult learning theory
• Explore four (4) different digital technologies ideal for adult learners in a student-centred learning environment and that you can use in your classroom / training room TODAY