Professional Learning Program for current and aspiring VET Trainers who teach Government Secondary School Students.

VET Development Centre (VDC) has been engaged by the Department of Education and Training (DET) to deliver a professional learning program that provides VET trainers with the skills and knowledge required to adapt the principles of adult learning in vocational training to deliver successful outcomes for their students. Further information on the purpose can be viewed here.

The program will focus on five streams:

VET Trainers and School Leaders engagement.
Understanding and engaging the adolescent learner.
VET Training and assessment
Quality Management and Industry Currency.
VET delivered to secondary school students

Program outcomes can be viewed here

Am I eligible?

To register for the program, you must teach VET delivered in Secondary Schools (VDSS) to government school students. This includes VET Teachers (who hold a teaching degree and TAE401160) or VET Trainers (who hold TAE40116 and have permission to teach in a government secondary school or an auspice agreement with a Registered Training Organisation). VET Coordinators are also encouraged to participate in the program.

What Should I enrol in?

A Skills Analysis tool is provided for you to access and can be accessed at here. By answering a small number of questions, a recommendation of webinars to register in will be provided to you. Teacher competency is defined by the VET Practitioners Capability Framework which can be viewed here.

Casual Relief Teachers (CRT) backfill and program hours:

Participants will need to commit to a maximum of 36 hours over a period of approximately 5 months and will have the option to attend any or all the sessions in the program.

The sessions will be held on various weekdays and will be scheduled between the hours of 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. during the school term. CRT is available for participants from secondary schools for the equivalent of two days. CRT Claims can be submitted to DET.

Course Information and Registration

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Stream 1 - VET Trainers and School Leaders engagement

This series of webinars bring together school leaders and VET Trainers on a range of topics such as understanding the secondary school culture and VET through a virtual workshop. VDC has structured a program that encourages school leaders and VET Trainers to engage throughout the program, reinforcing learning through access to eLearning and activities to apply, extend and reinforce (asynchronous learning). The Community of Practise continues these discussions.

Group 1 - Trainers and school leaders engagement	All levels	Wednesday 27^th July	9.30am – 11.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
OR
Group 2 - Trainers and school leaders engagement	All levels	Thursday 28^th July	9.30am – 11.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)

Facilitator: Helen Storr

As a past educator, Helen continues her passion for education and has an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the processes, structures and challenges of the education system.

Her extensive experience as an educator over 37 years, including Teacher, Principal, Regional and Central Leader has provided her with a thorough understanding of how people learn and she continues to use this to compassionately, creatively and courageously empower and enable her clients to excel in their chosen field. Throughout her career she has expanded her educational knowledge into Vocational Learning through providing consulting to various RTO’s and TAFE settings.

Stream 2 - Understanding and engaging the adolescent learner

This element will create dynamic learning environments by fostering cultures of mutual respect, trust, commitment and contribution by valuing diversity and difference. Learn how to identify and respond to student behaviours and identify present issues and triggers. This stream includes specialist areas such as trauma informed teaching and student anxiety.

Teaching Students with Diverse Needs	Beginner	Part 1: Wednesday 3^rd August Part 2: Wednesday 10^th August	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Teaching Students with Diverse Needs	Advanced	Part 1: Wednesday 3^rd August Part 2: Wednesday 10^th August	Part 1: 12.30pm – 2.00pm Part 2: 12.30pm – 1.30pm	Webinar (online via Zoom)

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Managing behaviours and expectations	Beginner	Part 1: Wednesday 17^th August Part 2: Wednesday 24^th August	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Managing behaviours and expectations	Advanced	Part 1: Wednesday 17^th August Part 2: Wednesday 24^th August	Part 1: 12.30pm – 2.00pm Part 2: 12.30pm – 1.30pm	Webinar (online via Zoom)

Dyslexia

All levels

Part 1: Wednesday
31^st August

Part 2: Wednesday
7^th September

Part 1:
9.30am – 11.00am

Part 2:
9.30am - 10.30am

Webinar
(online via Zoom)

Neurodiversity

All levels

Part 1: Wednesday
31^st August

Part 2: Wednesday
7^th September

Part 1:
12.30pm – 2.00pm

Part 2:
12.30pm – 1.30pm

Webinar
(online via Zoom)

Trauma informed teaching	Beginner	Part 1: Wednesday 5^th October Part 2: Wednesday 12^th October	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Trauma informed teaching	Advanced	Part 1: Wednesday 5^th October Part 2: Wednesday 12^th October	Part 1: 12.30pm – 2.00pm Part 2: 12.30pm – 1.30pm	Webinar (online via Zoom)

Facilitator: Karen Dymke

Karen has been a TAFE and ACFE teacher, trainer and presenter with over 30 years’ experience. Her interest and specialisation is in engaging learners and supporting educators in the VET sector to be double professionals, building capacity and capability in educational practice.

Communicating with students with CALD background

All levels

Part 1: Thursday
8^th September

Part 2: Thursday
15^th September

Part 1:
9.30am – 11.00am

Part 2:
9.30am – 10.30am

Webinar
(online via Zoom)

Students with Anxiety

All levels

Part 1: Thursday
8^th September

Part 2: Thursday
15^th September

Part 1:
12.30pm – 2.00pm

Part 2:
12.30pm – 1.30pm

Webinar
(online via Zoom)

Facilitator: Feren Yen

Feren has had great experience teaching in business, finance, HR and innovation in VET and higher education space. Today, Feren works as an Education Designer and Facilitator specialising in the development of curriculum for online and blended courseware.

She completed a Fellowship opportunity with the International Specialised Skills Institute on the topic of engaging and supporting disadvantaged students in the VET and higher education sector.
Feren also founded Downward Duck& Co in Springvale, a trauma sensitive space to share yoga, meditation & Pilates, having also completed studies in Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga.

Stream 3 - VET Training and assessment

Using a transformative learning approach, this stream will lead to deep shifts in learner understanding, identity and practice.

Discover and explore high impact teaching strategies using worked examples and collaborative learning techniques. Discover metacognitive strategies and the impact differentiated teaching has on learning outcomes for students. Learn how to effectively provide two-way feedback o to gather information about a student’s understanding, to assist student to advance their own learning and verify the impact of their practice.

How do you engage industry and manage structured work placement? Discover how to design and ensure placements enable students to practice new skills and be assessed.

Course planning and mapping includes assessment plans. Become skilled at complying with the rules of evidence and principles of assessment.

Teaching practice	Beginner	Part 1: Thursday 4^th August Part 2: Thursday 11^th August	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Teaching practice	Intermediate	Part 1: Thursday 4^th August Part 2: Thursday 11^th August	Part 1: 1.00pm – 2.30pm Part 2: 1.00pm – 2.00pm	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Teaching practice	Advanced	Part 1: Friday 5^th August Part 2: Friday 12^th August	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)

Assessment	Beginner	Part 1: Thursday 18^th August Part 2: Thursday 25^th August	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Assessment	Intermediate	Part 1: Thursday 18^th August Part 2: Thursday 25^th August	Part 1: 1.00pm – 2.30pm Part 2: 1.00pm – 2.00pm	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Assessment	Advanced	Part 1: Friday 16^th August Part 2: Friday 26^th August	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)

Facilitator: Andrew Douch

Andrew Douch is a Victorian teacher, presenter and edTech consultant. He is well known for his innovative approaches to education, which help teachers amplify their impact on student learning by inspiring new thinking about teaching effectively in a technology-rich world. He is also well known among students for his engaging online video courses.

His ideas and strategies have been adopted by teachers at all levels of education across Australia and the world and have attracted numerous awards including a Prime Minister’s Award for Quality Schooling, the Victorian Education Excellence Award for Curriculum Innovation, The Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teacher of the Year, an IMS Global Leadership Award and an Australian College of Educators World Teachers’ Day Award.

Industry	Beginner	Part 1: Thursday 6^th October Part 2: Thursday 13^th October	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Industry	Intermediate	Part 1: Thursday 6^th October Part 2: Thursday 13^th October	Part 1: 12.30pm – 2.00pm Part 2: 12.30pm – 1.30pm	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Industry	Advanced	Part 1: Friday 7^st October Part 2: Friday 14^th October	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.00am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)

Facilitator: Liz Grigg

Liz Grigg is an innovative teacher with over 20 years’ experience delivering VET programs in both metropolitan and regional areas. Her work with industry and validation processes ensures her students receive the skills and knowledge required by employers, whilst keeping herself current with latest industry trends.

VET Assessments	Beginner	Part 1: Thursday 20^th October Part 2: Thursday 27^th October	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
VET Assessments	Intermediate	Part 1: Thursday 20^th October Part 2: Thursday 27^th October	Part 1: 12.30pm – 2.00pm Part 2: 12.30pm – 1.30pm	Webinar (online via Zoom)
VET Assessments	Advanced	Part 1: Friday 21^st October Part 2: Friday 28^th October	Part 1: 9.30am – 11.00am Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)

Facilitator: Sarah Phillips

Sarah has 16 years’ experience in developing custom VET resources in the online and blended space. In this time, she has developed assessments for over 300 units of competency. Her passion for assessment best practice has grown over the last 10 years, delivering training on eLearning and assessment strategies across the country. Sarah has also designed dozens of full courses and has experience in all facets of end-to-end development.

Sarah’s extensive background in eLearning has allowed her to combine her skills and manage large projects and deliver high quality online materials and training.

Stream 4 – Quality Management and Industry Currency

How do you know if you are doing a good job? This stream delves into the teaching requirements of vocational courses and how you can leverage systems and process to provide quality learning outcomes for your students. Gain knowledge of how you can meet auditing requirements with easier approaches.

Learn what the right amount of training is and how nominal hours differ from volume of learning. Discover strategies you can use to maintain industry currency and how to record this information. Assessment, mapping, and validation - what does good practice look like and how can you make reasonable adjustments?

VRQA GROUP A	All levels	Part 1: Tuesday 18^th October Part 2: Tuesday 25^th October	Part 1: 9.30am – 12.30pm Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
OR
VRQA GROUP B	All levels	Part 1: Wednesday 19^th October Part 2: Wednesday 26^th October	Part 1: 9.30am – 12.30pm Part 2: 9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)

Facilitator: Andrea Bateman

Andrea is an Australian VET leader in the field of assessment and quality assurance. She specialises in providing educational organisations with advice on complex assessment and auditing issues.

Andrea has provided clear frameworks for both policy makers and practitioners and is an experienced auditor. She has extensive experience in conducting audits including compliance, strategic, investigative and CRICOS audits.

Stream 5 - VET delivered to secondary school students

To consolidate the VET Trainers professional learning journey and support the ongoing journey each intake will come together to discuss key learnings as well as components of the professional learning programs that they will/have embed in their practice.

VET with Secondary Schools - Group A	All levels	Wednesday 9^th November	9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
OR
VET with Secondary Schools - Group B	All levels	Thursday 10^th November	9.30am – 10.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)

Facilitator: Helen Storr

As a past educator, Helen continues her passion for education and has an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the processes, structures and challenges of the education system.

Community of Practice

Best Practice and Peer Review
Running alongside the program, the Community of Practice provides the opportunity for discussion, peer reviews and feedback. The sessions will run once per month throughout the program. This is a great opportunity to network with your peers and establish new professional relationships.

Community of Practice - Session 1	All levels	Tuesday 16^th August	10.30am – 11.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Community of Practice - Session 2	All levels	Wednesday 14^th September	10.30am – 11.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)
Community of Practice - Session 3	All levels	Wednesday 26^th October	10.30am – 11.30am	Webinar (online via Zoom)

Facilitator: Helen Storr

As a past educator, Helen continues her passion for education and has an in-depth understanding and knowledge of the processes, structures and challenges of the education system.

Further Information

Background
The Victorian Government is providing a $26.2 million suite of initiatives aimed at supporting teachers specialising in Vocational Education and Training (VET) and the delivery of the Vocational Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) to senior secondary school students.

One of these initiatives is for the design, development, and delivery of a professional learning program to 235 VET trainers over an 18-month year period. The professional learning program aims to equip trainers with the skills required to design and deliver VET in Schools programs to meet the needs of vocational students. VDC is partnering with the Department of Education and Training to design and deliver this program.

Participant notes for the Program
Participants will also be supported with learning materials via the Department’s Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). Once enrolled, you will be sent an email with your Canvas learning management system (LMS) login details. It is expected that some course reading and/or online activities (no more than 30 minutes) will be required for each stream of training.

This program has been funded by the Department of Education and training so there is no costs involved for participants to register.

Industry Currency
You may also be interested to attend specialised one day industry forums or the VET Industry Conference which are being delivered to VET Trainers as part of the Industry Placement Program. Further details can be viewed here.

Contact Us
For further information or to request a call-back from Lisa Confoy, Senior Project Manager VDC please call 1300 197 150 or email [email protected]

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Contact Us

For further information or to request a call-back from Lisa Confoy, Senior Project Manager VDC please call 1300 197 150 or email [email protected]

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Professional Learning Program for current and aspiring VET Trainers who teach Government Secondary School Students.

Am I eligible?

What Should I enrol in?

Casual Relief Teachers (CRT) backfill and program hours:

Course Information and Registration

Contact Us

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