TAFE NSW Teaching and Learning Colloquium
Networking and sharing our strengths in teaching and learning
Thursday 30 March 2006, 10 am – 3 pm
Mercure Hotel, Sydney Airport, 20 Levey Street, Wolli Creek
Continuing the conversation on workplace learning and
industry partnerships
in the context of VET pedagogy.
An exciting event for those interested in critical conversations, new and emerging research and sharing their expertise, experience and practice.
Nominated delegates from TAFE Institutes, Curriculum Centres, TAFE Strategic Support Services and Centre for Learning Innovation will attend this event. They will be visible key influencers, passionate about students, committed to teaching excellence.
The purpose of the Colloquium is to:
- Focus on what makes a difference to excellence in teaching and learning practice
- Develop skills in conducting critical conversations
- Develop skills to influence and promote excellence within constraints
- Keep up to date with new ideas and trends in VET pedagogy, research and teaching and learning
The benefits to TAFE NSW are:
- Valuing teaching outcomes and practice
- Positive impact on culture and educational leadership
- Engage practitioners
- Improve quality of teaching and learning
Emerging practices in workplace learning | TAFE NSW VET PEDAGOGY PROJECT UPDATE | ICVET eZine Nov 2005
The World Café Resource Guide
Resource guide to putting conversations to work
The World Café: Living Knowledge through Conversations that Matter, The Systems Thinker, Vol 12, No 5, June/July 2001
Different Learners, Different Contexts | COLLOQUIUM SLIDES
Learning Styles | A-Z RESOURCES
Learning styles refers to the belief that each adult has a preferred way of learning and that adults engage more productively with the learning activity when their style is taken into account.
Strategic Conversations | A-Z RESOURCES
A facilitation methodology developed by Tony Golsby-Smith of 2nd Road Pty Ltd and presented as an alternative to analysis. It draws on the work of Edgar Schein, Horst Rittel, Henry Mintzberg, and Robert McKee, and advances the idea that Aristotle proposed two systems – one of logic and one of creativity and imagination.
Partnerships and Entrepreneurship | RESEARCH AND EXEMPLARS
This theme area examines ways of supporting learning and innovation in the workplace through partnership arrangements between vocational education and training providers and industry. It also examines the kinds of entrepreneurship skills needed by practitioners to work in new and innovative ways. The focus is on research and exemplars of practice .
Indigenous Engagement through elearning in NSW North Coast EXEMPLAR | eZine April 2006
TAFE NSW’s North Coast Institute was awarded funding by the 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework to undertake and develop two sustainable pilot elearning projects aimed at building the learning and employment opportunities and outcomes for Indigenous Australians.
Contextualising Teaching and Learning - a guide for VET Teachers, Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training
A debatable comment from this paper...
Teachers are working with learners in the office in the classroom, at a conference, at the worksite, one on one, online, via workbooks- in any setting where people want to learn. But no matter where the learning takes place, the teaching activities reflect what is happening in the workplace.
This is because the teaching and learning is based on Training Packages and Training Packages are based on the skills and knowledge required in the workplace.
What do you think?
Mix or match? New Apprentices' learning styles and trainers' preferences for training in workplaces, NCVER
A new NCVER paper demonstrating different pedagogies in different sectors using apprentices as the field of study.
A huge learning curve: TAFE practitioners' ways of working with private enterprises, NCVER
Also here is great research based on VET practitioner interviews. A huge learning curve: TAFE practitioners' ways of working with private enterprises.