ETDP SETA CAREER GUIDE - The Institute of People Development

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Diagram One: Types of employers in the ETD Sector Diagram One: Where ETD Practitioners are Employed Specialised ETD Institutions, eg. Schools, universities, FET colleges, industry training colleges, regional training centres, private training providers, etc. Public and Private Sector Workplaces, eg. Commercial and industrial workplaces, central provincial and local government workplaces, hospitals, etc. Civil Society Organisations eg. Churches, cultural organisations, political organisations, trade unions, community-based organisations, NGOs, etc. The different categories of employers share common features in relation to ETD practice – in other words, how practitioners teach, assess, manage, etc. Specialised ETD institutions have education and training as their core business, and the curriculum tends to be organised around the knowledge and skill to be learned. Workplaces and civil society have education and training as a support activity, and the curriculum tends to be organised around supporting production or service delivery or the projects in which they are embedded. 3.3. What types of knowledge and skills are required to be an ETD Practitioner? The types of knowledge and skills required to be an ETD practitioner in different environments differ considerably. The ETD Practices Project suggested the following classification: - Subject-matter expertise (or what is being taught). This includes subject matter such as mathematics or science in schools and universities; in industry workplaces it includes welding or cash-registers. In essence, nobody can effectively teach something that they themselves do not understand. Programs that train school educators normally include subject-matter training, while workplace practitioners normally develop their subject-matter expertise before starting to learn about ETD. - Contextual understanding (or an understanding of where and who is being taught as well as why). For example, teaching adults is different to teaching young children. Similarly, the purpose of general education is formative development of the whole person, while workplace training aims to teach specific job-skills. Programs which help people to become an ETD practitioner therefore include a focus on the specifics of who, where and why in the schooling sector. - ETD expertise (or how to teach). This may include how to teach, how to design learning programs and materials, how to administer or manage them, how to evaluate them, etc. In the case of schooling, programs normally cover all the above during a single course of study. In the case of workplace training, programs more often deal with each of these separately. A Guide to Career Opportunities in the Education, Training and Development Sector 5
3.4. What do ETD Practitioners do? What ETD practitioners do may be described in terms of a set of roles: - identifying learning needs - designing learning programs - developing learning materials - teaching or training (i.e. helping groups to learn) - coaching and mentoring (i.e. helping individuals to learn) - assessing learning - managing learning organisations or programs - evaluating learning programs - providing administrative support to learning programs and organisations These roles are shown in Diagram Two: Diagram Two: What ETD Practitioners do. Diagram Two: What ETD Practitioners DO Manage Market Identify Needs Administer Assess / Evaluate Design Programs / Develop Materials Guide and Counsel etc. Teach / Train / Coach / Mentor Some support roles The main ETD roles in helping people to learn 3.5. What are typical career paths in the ETD sector? The typical career progression in the ETD professions is normally as outlined in Diagram Three (overleaf). Note that this diagram is typical of most sub-sectors in the ETD field, but is not typical of others (for example research organisations or libraries). A Guide to Career Opportunities in the Education, Training and Development Sector 6
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