Professional Development

VDC specialises in providing continuing professional learning for the Vocational Education and Training (VET) workforce as well as strategic support services for all VET providers in Australia. VDC has an extensive range of one hour webinars, half and full day workshops and special events such as VET Thought Leader Forums, conferences and other functions.

VDC can provide tailored professional learning activities to meet your organisation’s needs. For further information regarding customised PD options please contact Steven Deer, Senior Project Manager VDC [email protected] or 1300 917 150

2020 VDC Professional Learning Program

The VDC Professional Learning Program offers an extensive range of CPD opportunities for the VET Workforce under seven topic areas through one hour webinars, half and full day workshops as well as a range of special events. Click here to download 2020 Semester 1 Program. Registrations opening soon.

VDC Professional Learning Categories

All 2020 VDC webinars and workshops have been categorised as either Introductory, Intermediate or Advanced to describe the level of content being presented in the training. The categories are aligned to the levels in the VET Practitioner Capability Framework (IBSA 2011). The level descriptions are provided below.

Upcoming PD

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16 Apr

teaching & learning strategies

Webinar: Blending Online with Face to Face Training

Thu, 16 Apr 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

In this webinar, participants will learn more about the practices we deploy to ensure online and face-to-face delivery are well integrated, workable and effective. They'll investigate blended teaching practice and how to apply this to their own classes. We emphasise the value of careful planning, point to resources that support blended teaching and learning, and explore the benefits of team teaching in successfully meshing online and face-to-face learning environments.

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17 Apr

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: Establish & Manage Practical Work Placements

Fri, 17 Apr 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar will examine a range of administrative, regulatory and educational requirements that are necessary to ensure a meaningful training experience for your students.

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22 Apr

teaching & learning strategies

Webinar: Engaging International and Culturally Diverse Students

Wed, 22 Apr 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This practical session will help service providers understand how to analyse these needs on a population and individual basis and how to prioritise time and resources to address them. Help your staff and students create targeted improvements that will provide the maximum impact for learners.

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24 Apr

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: Retention of Evidence - What, Why and How to Keep It

Fri, 24 Apr 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar regards evidence with the attentive eyes of a regulator and auditor. What passes muster in their view? We round up details about your responsibilities for collecting, keeping and locating evidence. And rather than filing an empty plate, we consider practical alternatives for evidence you can't retain.

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01 May

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: Mapping Assessments Through a Compliance Lens

Fri, 01 May 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar helps you get the most from mapping. We draw effective links between assessment design and mapping, and offer tested methods for documenting mapping. You are encouraged to share your mapping dilemmas and identify paths through them.

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05 May

teaching & learning strategies

Webinar: The Importance of Self-Care to Prevent Burnout

Tue, 05 May 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

In this unmissable session, you'll learn how to connect to what is important to you and how to build self-care into your routine to avoid burn out. Learning the secrets to not only fitting self-care into our days and weeks but finding the things that bring us joy can decrease stress, increase energy, and help keep us mentally and physically healthy.

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06 May

teaching & learning strategies

Webinar: Bring Learning Alive to Engage Students

Wed, 06 May 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar explores strategies that combine to produce consistent student engagement. We work through ideas about building and sustaining a learning climate among your students. The webinar builds your resources for establishing a growth mindset - a habit of mind leading students to believe that by engaging and working hard, they will succeed.

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07 May

mapping & validation

Webinar: Validating Online Assessments

Thu, 07 May 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar enlarges online assessment perspectives by considering what makes online assessment practice distinctive. You leave the webinar with a firmer sense of how to align principles assessment, assessment designs, and validation processes.

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12 May

assessment essentials

Webinar/Online Course: RPL - The Devil's in the Detail

Tue, 12 May 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar uncovers the devilish (compliance) detail that needs to be considered when offering and processing RPL.

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18 May

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: What are Auditors Looking for at Audit?

Mon, 18 May 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This session goes behind the mystery of the role of an Auditor, with a behind the scenes insight into what an Auditor does, how they work and why they do what they do.

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19 May

leadership & management

Webinar: Positive Behavioural Change

Tue, 19 May 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This interactive webinar enables participants to develop purposeful strategies to promote positive behaviours. The emphasis is on understanding what prompts challenging behaviours and how to influence and promote long-lasting change.

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21 May

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar/Online Course: Compliance Requirements for Trainer Industry Currency

Thu, 21 May 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar can boost your confidence and capability in meeting industry currency expectations - what the Standards require, what strategies you can roll out to maintain industry currency, and what good evidence looks like to an auditor.

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22 May

assessment essentials

Webinar: Demystifying Assessment

Fri, 22 May 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar puts assessment myths to rest. How many assessment events are necessary, and can we weight them? Can we grade competence? The webinar works through a string of myths, separates fact from fiction, and enables you to more confidently design and conduct assessments.

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25 May

teaching & learning strategies

Webinar: EdTech to Enhance Student Learning Experiences

Mon, 25 May 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This session will unpack a whole stack of tried & tested, affordable and in some cases FREE ed-tech solutions that you can implement within your organisation to enhance the learning experience of the students within your organisation.

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02 Jun

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar/Online Course: Preparing for an Audit of Assessment

Tue, 02 Jun 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar examines clauses 1.8 - 1.12 of the Standards - the assessment clauses. We unpack the meanings and expectations wrapped up in them. You will take away an understanding of how to document assessment practice so your RTO's guarantee is good and you are always audit ready.

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11 Jun

teaching & learning strategies

Webinar: Conflict Resolution in the Classroom

Thu, 11 Jun 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This engaging and practical webinar will give you the tools and strategies to manage classroom conflict with ease, including using positive communication, active listening and problem-solving skills.

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12 Jun

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: Copyright for the VET Educator

Fri, 12 Jun 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar covers copyright for VET educators. Participants will be able to have specific questions answered, gain an understanding of what copyright is, how to work with it, what the risks are, and how to manage them.

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19 Jun

assessment essentials

Webinar: Assessment Questions for AQF Levels

Fri, 19 Jun 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

Join the facilitator and your colleagues in framing good answers to teacherly questions. When are questions best suited to collecting evidence? What kinds of questions work well? What are the best tips for framing good questions? How can I be sure the answers I receive are those of the learner I'm assessing?

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23 Jun

assessment essentials

Webinar: Third Party Reports & Assessment

Tue, 23 Jun 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar explores elements of a practice framework that promotes and sustains employer participation in assessment. We consider when workplaces are appropriate sites for assessment, assessors' responsibilities, constraints on employer participation and strategies for workplace evidence gathering.

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24 Jun

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: Applying Reasonable Adjustment

Wed, 24 Jun 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

Join us in putting together the pieces of the fairness puzzle. We consider fairness from learner, assessor and regulator perspectives and arrive at an integrated understanding. We work through expectations about reasonable adjustment, preserving assessment integrity and record keeping.

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26 Jun

assessment essentials

Webinar: The Nuts & Bolts of Assessment

Fri, 26 Jun 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar looks at the basics from understanding the unit of competence to finishing a complete assessment tool. After this session, participants will be able to identify the necessary and negotiable components of a unit of competency, create an effective mapping document, identify three different types of evidence and their assessment instruments, which apply to a specific unit and undertake pre-assessment validation.

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15 Jul

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar/Online Course: Understanding the Volume of Learning Requirements

Wed, 15 Jul 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar explores how much time students should be spending on the various parts of a qualification and helps planners develop a 'defensible argument' for the volume of learning they attribute to a qualification and each unit within that qualification.

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16 Jul

assessment essentials

Workshop: Developing Effective Competency-Based Assessment Tools

Thu, 16 Jul 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

In this workshop you will analyse a unit of competency, discuss the design of assessment tools for different methods and work with peers on validation of assessment.

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21 Jul

assessment essentials

Webinar: Assessment Questions for AQF Levels

Tue, 21 Jul 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

Join the facilitator and your colleagues in framing good answers to teacherly questions. When are questions best suited to collecting evidence? What kinds of questions work well? What are the best tips for framing good questions? How can I be sure the answers I receive are those of the learner I'm assessing?

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28 Jul

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar/Online Course: Compliance Requirements for Trainer Industry Currency

Tue, 28 Jul 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar can boost your confidence and capability in meeting industry currency expectations - what the Standards require, what strategies you can roll out to maintain industry currency, and what good evidence looks like to an auditor.

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30 Jul

assessment essentials

Webinar: Complying with the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence

Thu, 30 Jul 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

Take the opportunities provided in this webinar to unpack the Principles and Rules and understand what they require of your RTO. The webinar introduces effective validation strategies and evidence gathering for compliance purposes.

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03 Aug

leadership & management

Webinar: Setting Up Coaching and Mentoring Sessions

Mon, 03 Aug 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This engaging webinar is designed to build a solid foundation for participants to set up coaching and mentoring sessions for success and structure the conversation with clear outcomes. They will learn proven strategies to develop employees and teams with more confidence, how to build a culture of professional development, workplace performance and results.

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06 Aug

teaching & learning strategies

Workshop: Strength Based Approaches in Supporting Students with Mental Illnesses

Thu, 06 Aug 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

This session explores the mental illnesses experiences associated with at risk and crisis situations, including unmasking the myths and fears associated with engaging learners in at risk situations.

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07 Aug

assessment essentials

Webinar: Demystifying Assessment

Fri, 07 Aug 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar puts assessment myths to rest. How many assessment events are necessary, and can we weight them? Can we grade competence? The webinar works through a string of myths, separates fact from fiction, and enables you to more confidently design and conduct assessments.

Find out more...

Register
11 Aug

leadership & management

Workshop: Effective Communication

Tue, 11 Aug 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

In this interactive workshop, participants will identify and practise powerful techniques to successfully enhance their communication behaviours to positively influence others. They will be equipped with tools for clear, confident and concise communication, and learn how to build strong relationships with different stakeholders.

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18 Aug

leadership & management

Workshop: Manage Complex Change

Tue, 18 Aug 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

In this engaging workshop, participants will develop a better understanding of effective change strategies. They will also acquire the skills vital to mastering complex change so they can guide their team through times of uncertainty.

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18 Aug

assessment essentials

Webinar: Incorporate Foundation Skills into Training

Tue, 18 Aug 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar clarifies sometimes confusing terminology. Foundation skills, employability skills, core skills, LLN skills - are they the same or different? An important webinar outcome is deeper understanding of how to weave foundation skills and technical skills together when you deliver a unit of competency. Learn the top tips for building foundation skills into your training and assessment practice.

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24 Aug

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: Observation Checklists - Getting the Criteria Right

Mon, 24 Aug 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This practical webinar steps through the construction of effective, efficient observation checklists. You will build capability in extracting assessment criteria from units of competency, and develop understanding about what constitutes observable performance.

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25 Aug

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: Pre-Training Review of Learners

Tue, 25 Aug 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

In this engaging webinar, Anni Yaringa looks at Pre-Training Reviews (PTR) as an important step in establishing a learner's readiness to embark on a particular qualification. Using the PTR as an educational diagnosis to create learner-centred, informative, constructive and compliant processes that support learners from commencement.

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26 Aug

teaching & learning strategies

Workshop: Learning How to Learn

Wed, 26 Aug 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

NEW - In this instructive and fun workshop, you will explore the conditions that optimise the capacity to learn and engage. Led by passionate educators, Karen Dymke and Jenny Setsa, this session explores the role of emotions in learning, including how to overcome anxiety for success, teaching students how to manage their own learning and how research can support the development of study skills that boost learning.

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27 Aug

teaching & learning strategies

Webinar: Bring Learning Alive to Engage Students

Thu, 27 Aug 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar explores strategies that combine to produce consistent student engagement. We work through ideas about building and sustaining a learning climate among your students. The webinar builds your resources for establishing a growth mindset - a habit of mind leading students to believe that by engaging and working hard, they will succeed.

Find out more...

Register
31 Aug

quality, compliance & auditing

Workshop: Preparing for an Audit of Assessment

Mon, 31 Aug 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

This workshop examines clauses 1.8 - 1.12 of the Standards - the assessment clauses. We unpack the meanings and expectations wrapped up in them. You will take away an understanding of how to document assessment practice so your RTO's guarantee is good and you are always audit ready.

Find out more...

Register
01 Sep

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: Mapping Assessments Through a Compliance Lens

Tue, 01 Sep 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar helps you get the most from mapping. We draw effective links between assessment design and mapping, and offer tested methods for documenting mapping. You are encouraged to share your mapping dilemmas and identify paths through them.

Find out more...

Register
02 Sep

leadership & management

Webinar: Positive Behavioural Change

Wed, 02 Sep 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This interactive webinar enables participants to develop purposeful strategies to promote positive behaviours. The emphasis is on understanding what prompts challenging behaviours and how to influence and promote long-lasting change.

Find out more...

Register
07 Sep

teaching & learning strategies

Workshop: The Impact of Mental Illnesses

Mon, 07 Sep 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

This workshop builds confidence in raising conversations around mental illness, introduces strategies for engaging in supportive conversations that assist learners to manage their mental well-being and provides tips and strategies for supporting learners with their mental well-being.

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08 Sep

leadership & management

Workshop: Positive Behavioural Change

Tue, 08 Sep 9:00AM–12:00PM

$220 (inc GST)

This interactive workshop enables participants to develop purposeful strategies to promote positive behaviours. The emphasis is on understanding what prompts challenging behaviours and how to influence and promote long-lasting change.

Find out more...

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08 Sep

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: Compliance and Auditing for Online Assessment

Tue, 08 Sep 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar invites participants to examine what differentiates online delivery from face-to-face delivery. Through this process, we will also examine compliance requirements, how they apply to online delivery and assessment, and how you can incorporate compliance as part of robust course design.

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09 Sep

quality, compliance & auditing

Workshop: Preparing for ASQA Audits - Identify & Organise Evidence

Wed, 09 Sep 9:00AM–12:00PM

$220 (inc GST)

At the end of this workshop, participants will understand the evidence requirements for audit, and a framework for identifying and organising evidence for audit.

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11 Sep

assessment essentials

Webinar: Third Party Reports & Assessment

Fri, 11 Sep 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar explores elements of a practice framework that promotes and sustains employer participation in assessment. We consider when workplaces are appropriate sites for assessment, assessors' responsibilities, constraints on employer participation and strategies for workplace evidence gathering.

Find out more...

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14 Sep

assessment essentials

Workshop: AQF Levels and Assessment

Mon, 14 Sep 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

During this workshop we untangle the links between units of competency, AQF levels and appropriate assessment designs. You will leave the session with actionable strategies that help you pitch assessment to the right AQF level.

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17 Sep

leadership & management

Workshop: Social Media & Marketing

Thu, 17 Sep 9:00AM–12:00PM

$220 (inc GST)

This half day program challenges participants to consider their existing approach to recruiting and keeping students.

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06 Oct

teaching & learning strategies

Workshop: Assisting Students at Risk of Panic Attacks/Suicidal Thoughts

Tue, 06 Oct 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

NEW - This workshop is an essential starting point for helping educators understand some of the more common mental illnesses and symptoms they may encounter amongst their student cohorts. This session will equip teachers with the confidence to start conversations with students, understand the boundaries and referral processes and learn how they can support students in their learning when they are struggling.

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13 Oct

teaching & learning strategies

Webinar: Teaching Strategies for Challenging Behaviours

Tue, 13 Oct 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar shares your experiences of challenging classroom behaviours, unpacks what gives rise to them, and repacks them with management strategies that support change.

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26 Oct

quality, compliance & auditing

Workshop: Essentials for the Internal Auditor

Mon, 26 Oct 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

This workshop delivers a practical understanding of how to interpret and apply the Standards for Registered Training Organisations 2015, and how to plan and prepare for internal and external audits.

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27 Oct

leadership & management

Workshop: Rapport Building for Strong Business Relationships

Tue, 27 Oct 9:00AM–12:00PM

$220 (inc GST)

NEW - In this engaging and hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create an environment that fosters connectiveness where people overcome differences and work together as a united force. They will acquire a toolset of practical strategies and get ample opportunity to practise rapport building to pave the way for developing strong long-term relationships.

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28 Oct

quality, compliance & auditing

Workshop: Address Non-Compliance in Assessments

Wed, 28 Oct 9:00AM–12:00PM

$220 (inc GST)

In this hands-on session you will learn the essentials of validation and then conduct a validation of one of your assessment tools. This in-depth validation includes the instructions to assessors and candidates and assessors, all tasks and mapping if you have it, against the unit of competency it assesses.

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27 Oct

quality, compliance & auditing

Webinar: Retention of Evidence - What, Why and How to Keep It

Tue, 27 Oct 3:30PM–4:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar regards evidence with the attentive eyes of a regulator and auditor. What passes muster in their view? We round up details about your responsibilities for collecting, keeping and locating evidence. And rather than filing an empty plate, we consider practical alternatives for evidence you can't retain.

Find out more...

Register
29 Oct

teaching & learning strategies

Webinar: Engaging International and Culturally Diverse Students

Thu, 29 Oct 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This practical session will help service providers understand how to analyse these needs on a population and individual basis and how to prioritise time and resources to address them. Help your staff and students create targeted improvements that will provide the maximum impact for learners.

Find out more...

Register
10 Nov

teaching & learning strategies

Workshop: Engaging Students with Low Level English Skills

Tue, 10 Nov 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

In this practical workshop, we will explore best practice strategies for developing literacy skills and engaging learners in the classroom. Covering the essential components of literacy, you'll be invited to share your own experiences and strategies and learn more skills to add to your professional literacy toolkit.

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12 Nov

mapping & validation

Webinar: Validating Online Assessments

Thu, 12 Nov 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar enlarges online assessment perspectives by considering what makes online assessment practice distinctive. You leave the webinar with a firmer sense of how to align principles assessment, assessment designs, and validation processes.

Find out more...

Register
13 Nov

teaching & learning strategies

Workshop: Addressing Dyslexia & other SLDs in the Classroom

Fri, 13 Nov 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

This one-day workshop aims to provide attendees with an understanding of what SLDs are, how to identify a student with SLD, as well as insights into some of the day-to-day learning challenges these students face in the classroom.

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17 Nov

assessment essentials

Workshop: Assessment in the Workplace

Tue, 17 Nov 9:00AM–4:00PM

$380 (inc GST)

NEW - At the end of the session, participants will understand the requirements of assessment tools, how they should be applied at different AQF levels and the criteria for acceptable range of evidence.

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18 Nov

leadership & management

Workshop: Managing Difficult Conversations

Wed, 18 Nov 9:00AM–12:00PM

$220 (inc GST)

This workshop journey is an opportunity to learn how to secure productive outcomes from conflict. Difficult conversations might remain difficult, but the workshop gives you the know-how to manage them with understanding, skill, poise and confidence.

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17 Nov

assessment essentials

Webinar/Online Course: RPL - The Devil's in the Detail

Tue, 17 Nov 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar uncovers the devilish (compliance) detail that needs to be considered when offering and processing RPL.

Find out more...

Register
19 Nov

teaching and learning strategies

VDC Teaching and Learning Conference 2020

Thu, 19 Nov 8:30AM–3:30PM

$575 (inc GST)

The 2020 VDC Teaching & Learning Conference will be held on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 May 2020 at the popular RACV Torquay Resort on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. The VDC has provided an annual teaching and learning conference for the past 14 years. The aim has been to focus on national and state strategic issues fundamental to excellent vocational education and training practice.

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20 Nov

mapping & validation

Webinar: Validation of Judgements

Fri, 20 Nov 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

This webinar brings good news. With the guidance of a facilitator experienced in systematic validation, we clarify the expectations. The webinar introduces established understandings about efficient and effective validation processes that deliver both quality outcomes and compliance outputs (including documentation).

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24 Nov

assessment essentials

Webinar: Assessment Questions for AQF Levels

Tue, 24 Nov 12:30PM–1:30PM

$55 (inc GST)

Join the facilitator and your colleagues in framing good answers to teacherly questions. When are questions best suited to collecting evidence? What kinds of questions work well? What are the best tips for framing good questions? How can I be sure the answers I receive are those of the learner I'm assessing?

Find out more...

Register

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