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Hi everyone.

Lisa's latest hot tip for A/T2 is the Powerpoint presentation which she attached to her recent email of 14/1/2014.

This presentation hammers on seriously into my domain of V.E.T. commencing in earnest from about slide 8. Here is the Commonwealth Government Website which is pretty much the mothership for our V.E.T. Training Packages and Courses under the AQTF. Enjoy!

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The home page has brilliant search facilities including "Quick Search" in which you can type in a course name or number. Alternatively you can check out the cool JPEG graphic at the top right of the home page which scrolls pictorially through industry categories commencing with Aviation. If you click on Aviation and then scroll down you will see the "current" Aviation industry National Training Package listed as AVI08 -

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Click on the above link and then scroll down to [] (Control Remote Pilot Aircraft RPA On The ground). Click it and scroll down and you will see the UoC called AVIY3073A. Click it and you will find that it supercedes and is equivalent to the UoC AVIY3067A, which I have (hypothetically) chosen to teach part of a School Based Traineeship given my own experience as a former pilot and my V.E.T. DiplomaTAE qualificaton. Already since I chose to teach AVIY3067A for my EDVT12015 A/T 2, you will see that the industry has raced ahead with a new UoC being introduced as at 23/12/2013 and if you are not on the ball as an RTO or Trainer/Assessor you can eaily miss a critial update and start teaching an old UoC, which can be invalid and have zero value towards a qualification unless the words "superceded and equivalent" appear in the descriptor as you can see fortunately does in my case. You may have even collected the student's money and be half way through teaching the old UoC when you suddenly have to explain to the student (and your boss) that you've wasted their time and money (as well as yours). Not good.

V.E.T. Trainers/Assessors and of course R.T.O.'s need to be right across this website DAILY to ensure you are teaching "current" UoC's and also to factor and build any necessary gap training and assessment needed to keep abreast ot the new Unit.

Sometimes whole UoC's are even axed overnight as hasrecently been the case with First Aid and Occupational Health And Safety UoC's in our domain within Disability Services in the wake of the new Federal Workplace Harmonisation safety legislation which gave rise to the new "Queensland 2011 Work Health And Safety Act" and thus rendered many of the old UoC's fully redundant and in turn demanded new course content, training materials, delivery, assessment and even RTO scoping.

__**The above Commonwealth Government Website is therefore your full daily up-to-date guide to the delivery of all Australian industry training and nationally recognised qualifications under the AQF.**__

Because my chosen UoC for A/T 2 is "equivalent" to the old UoC, I will legitimately proceed with AVIY3067A UoC. If you click on AVIY3073A, you will see the (new) UoC's actual UoC's FULL DETAILS, from which I have scoped the LLN demands as the Trainer/Assessor for our A/T2. I shall of course be submitting the old AVIY3067A FULL DETAILS document, since it is still "equivalent" to the new AVIY3073A UoC even though it was superceded on 23/12/2013, which came as a surprise even to me. As I said, taht's how fast global and national industries are changing and morphing!

Welcome now to my world of V.E.T. post-compulsory industry education, which I happen to have combined with Secondary in a School Based Traineeship.

Hope this all assist you Secondary and other educators to find your way around.

Kind regards,

Steve Cullum.

To encourage students to read in a mode they would be comfortable with- online [|www.publicbookshelf.com] 1000's of free books to enjoy Lydia Pinter

Hello everyone,

Found some good websites to help out with Numeracy skills.

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Hope these can give you some resources and ideas! Maddie Derepas

Good morning

Today I found this [|website] which lists so many opportunities to engage secondary school students in their literacy! Some of these principles can also be related to numeracy. This website offers various stimulus which will be beneficial for students and teachers alike especially when exploring new topics - this is achieved because the tools listed on this website are interactive and there is teaching and learning happening whilst the activities take place.

Thank you! Fiona Weight

List here Websites that are useful to use with students in secondary settings.

[|http://australianmuseum.net.au]

I have a Blog that lists a large number of technologies and strategies, including examples and links, that you may find useful when looking for ways to engage students within literacy and numeracy activities. I will continually add to this Blog over time. []

Sometimes students just need to be told something in a different way for it to click. This website contains over 2700 short clips on how to 'do' things mathematically or scientifically along with clips on art and other subjects. The clips go from easy to harder stuff and are no longer that 9 mins each, good for short attention spans too :-))[| The Khan Academy]

Hello All,

I found this YouTube Clip. Thought is was interesting. I had never head of the LLNP before. []

I also found another YouTube Clip that leads on from Tenent Creek in the view of Ambassador Faustina Agolley []

Hope you find these helpful. These clips focus on the issues and the need to close the gap on literacies for students who are in school and students who are leaving school. Their goal is lifelong learning through literacy!

Hope you enjoy. Maddie Derepas

Hi,

"[|"Inside a dog"]Inside a dog" is website designed for teen readers and is “the home of Inky, the reading wonder-dog”. This website from the State Library of Victoria, has reviews by teenagers on books they love or hate. Discussions can be found on the news blog and forums are also available to view your thoughts. Here teenagers can make contact with authors with a different ‘writer in residence’ each month. There is also the opportunity to join or start a book club and there are prizes to win also. There is a tab for teachers which links the Australian Curriculum Strands for years 6 – 10 so this site would be useful as a tool for teachers as well as an interesting and engaging site for teenage students.

Enjoy!!! Kerrie Corcoran