senior school handbook 2008 - Mount Eliza Secondary College

Work Related
Skills Senior
Units 1&2
Unit purpose
The Work Related Skills Senior Unit provides a focus
for the development of work related and vocational
skills in a workplace context or appropriate simulation.
There is no formal on the job training requirement
within the Victorian Certificate of Applied
Learning. However, students may undertake, within
their Learning Program, a SWL or on the job learning
or recognition of prior learning in a work context.
This will be counted as a unit where students are able
to meet the learning outcomes of the unit through
their SWL or part time work over 100 nominal hours.
The overall aims of the unit include:
•integrating learning of increasing complexity of work
related skills with prior knowledge and experiences
about work
•further enhancing the development of Key Competencies
through increasingly complex work related
activity
•developing increasingly complex critical thinking
skills that apply to problem solving situations in the
work context
•developing planning and organisational skills that
incorporate evaluation and review
•applying increasingly complex transferable skills to
work related contexts.
If a student does undertake a SWL as part of their
VCAL Learning Program, they must undertake the
Work Related Skills Unit One and/or an appropriate
accredited Occupational Health and Safety unit of
competence prior to commencement of the SWL.
Learning outcomes and assessment
criteria
Students must show competence in all six learning
outcomes.
Learning outcome 1
Research information about the career pathways,
functions and layout of a specific industry or workplace.
Learning outcome 2
Assist in the Hazard Identification Risk Assessment
and Control planning process to meet OH&S requirements
in a work related context.
Learning outcome 3
Communicate ideas and information about OH&S
requirements for a work environment.
Learning outcome 4
Work with others and in teams in a work environment
in accordance with defined workplace procedures.
Learning outcome 5
Describe an OH&S plan for a work related environment
that addresses up to three OH&S concerns.
Learning outcome 6
Use technology in accordance with OH&S guidelines
in a work related context.
Unit 2
Learning outcome 1
Collect, analyse and organise information in a work
environment.
Learning outcome 2
Plan and organise activities in a work environment.
Learning outcome 3
Communicate ideas and information in a work environment.
Learning outcome 4
Work with others and in teams in a work environment.
Learning outcome 5
Use mathematical ideas and techniques in a work environment.
Learning outcome 6
Solve problems in a work environment.
Assessment
A range of assessment methods may be applied to
VCAL Senior Unit. Examples include:
a portfolio of accumulated evidence
teacher observation and/or checklists
evidence accumulated through project or program
participation
awards from recognised programs
self-assessment inventories
oral or written reports.
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