EEB321 Reflective Practice in VET (8)

CSU Discipline Area: Early Childhood Studies (ECHIL)

Duration: One session

Abstract:

This subject is designed for students who have already completed and been given entry credit for the successful completion of the TAA40104 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. The subject builds on the Units of Competency covered in the TAA40104 and introduces students to broader and deeper understandings of these through wider reading and more critical assessments. It does this through seeking to develop or enhance the students' ability to critically reflect on their VET practice within a framework of applicable theoretical perspectives.

Students need to submit evidence that they have at least 150 hours of VET teaching and training experience which includes 50 hours of direct teaching or training. They are also expected to present evidence of an evaluation of their teaching/training practice or a workplace performance review and a letter attesting to their competence as a VET practitioner.

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Session 1
Distance	Wagga Wagga

Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: EEB321

Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Enrolment restrictions:

Enrolment in this subject is restricted to students who hold the TAA401 04 Certificate IV in Training & Assessment.
Enrolment in this subject is not available to students who have completed EEB221 or EEB430

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

- recognise the importance and usefulness of reflection on practice in developing professional expertise
- recognise the need to use current professional literature and practice in order to increase the efficacy of one's own practice
- identify and use strategies for effective reflection on professional practice
- be able to discuss a range of workplace learning theories and their usefulness in a variety of situations
- have a capacity to analyse classroom and workplace environments for their learning potential
- be able to reflect on VET teaching and training, using appropriate literature as a reference source

Syllabus:

The subject will cover the following topics:

REFLECTION ON PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
- What is reflection?
* Keeping a reflective journal

- Components of reflection
* Reflective learning
* Reflective teaching
* Theories of reflection
* Dewey on thinking
* Concepts of judgement
* The concept of praxis

- Reflection-on-action and reflection-in-action
* The reflective practitioner
* Reflection in practice
* Single-loop, double-loop and deuteron-learning
* Barriers to reflection

TRAINING IN ENTERPRISE CONTEXTS
- The environment for training and learning within non-educational workplaces
* Factors affecting the job of the workplace trainer
* Training is for adults
* Nationally recognised training in enterprises

- How training improves workplace performance

- Theories about learning in the workplace

- Theories about delivering training in the workplace

- Planned sequences of learning in the workplace
* Managing the gathering of evidence for workplace assessment and RPL/RCC processes
* Learning sequences for work-based apprentices and trainees

CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT
- Developing a teaching program

- Theories of curriculum

- Strengths and limitations of competency-based training

- Assessment
* Overview of assessment theory
* Assessment in VET in the current system
* Who is involved in the assessment process?

- Some dilemmas and debates about assessment
* Graded assessment
* Common traps in assessment
* Assessing at a distance
* Cheating
* Recognition of prior learning
* Subjectivity and candidate resistance

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