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: jash@mrwed.edu.au Web: www.mrwed.edu.au Phone: 1800 287 246 Twitter: @jasn79

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