How to maintain your vocational
currency
Jason Ash MRWED Training and Assessment
The views and resources presented in this workshop represent the views
of the presenter(s) and do not in any way represent the views of VET
Regulators.
For further information on the Standards or matters of VET compliance,
please consult the ‘Standards for Registered Training Organisations
(RTOs) 2015’ or visit the VET Regulator websites;
Training Accreditation Council www.tac.wa.gov.au;
Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) www.asqa.gov.au.
How to maintain vocational competency: techniques and templates to support the
journey
With Jason Ash MRWED Training and Assessment
Opener – What are you juggling?
Think about all the things you presently juggle in your job…
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Agenda
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• What is vocational competency? • Why do we need to ensure
vocational competency? • What do the Standards for RTOs
2015 say? • How to maintain vocational
competency • Supporting activities • Ways to track vocational
competence • Final tips for success.
What is Vocational Competence?
Vocational competency is defined as broad
industry knowledge and experience, usually
combined with a relevant industry
qualification.
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A clear and verified relationship between the trainer’s and assessor’s formal and informal training
and experience and the qualifications/ units they deliver and assess must be established.
What does that mean?
Why do we have to prove vocational competence in what
we deliver and assess?
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Athletics Analogy
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Examples of Change – Printing Industry
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Vs
Examples of Change – Measuring Carpet
What do the Standards for RTOs 2015 say?
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The RTO’s training and assessment is delivered only by persons who have: • vocational competencies at least to the level
being delivered and assessed; • current industry skills directly relevant to the
training and assessment being provided; and • current knowledge and skills in vocational
training and learning that informs their training and assessment.
Employ skilled trainers and assessors (Clause 1.13)
Current challenges
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What are some of the challenges in meeting these
vocational competence requirements?
How to maintain vocational competence
Content Context
Currency
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How have you determined
that you know how to do the
job of the qualifications
you deliver and assess?
Content
Context
Does this information clearly show the relationship between what you are delivering and what you have
experience in?
How do you know if something has changed
in your industry area and you are up-to-date with current work practices?
Currency
Activities to support vocational competence
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• In-service training
• Work release
• Simulations
• External Validation
What other activities could be used?
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In many situations trainers and assessors will hold the qualification and/or units of competency that they deliver or assess.
Where this is not the case equivalence needs to be established.
Equivalence
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Workplace Documents
Professional Development
Activities
How to track vocational competence
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• E-portfolios (e.g. www.mahara.org)
• CMS (e.g. Job Ready RTO)
• Spreadsheet and Calendar (e.g. Excel or Outlook)
• Visual Organiser (e.g. Colour-coded wall chart)
Templates to guide the process
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Qualifications held
Training delivery and assessment history
Relevant vocational experience
Professional development history/VET currency
Tips for Success
Organisational Support
Equivalence is determined
Competence is verified
Evidence that these actions have occurred
Number of ways
Clear relationships
External Validation
Tracking Documents
Process in place
Mapping
C O M P E T E N C E
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Closer – give one, get one
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Contacts
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Jason Ash MRWED Training and Assessment Email: [email protected] Web: www.mrwed.edu.au Phone: 1800 287 246 Twitter: @jasn79
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