10 Tips for RPL - Essential resources for TAFE teachers
“Prior Learning is a gift – the background and skills a person brings to a new task/role frees up resources we can allocate to others. We treat it too often as a burden. Try to harness prior learning and use it to both their and your benefit”.
Tip 1: Recognition Information on the Internet
- www.tafensw.edu.au
- Course Student Assessment Guides
- Student Recognition Guide for each module
- Course Credit Estimate Report on E-services
Tip 2: Educational Capability website
- DET Intranet site – TAFE and Community Education
- TAFE Strategy and Business Operations
- Teaching and Learning – Recognition
- Contains Embedded Testamur Policy and other policies
- PowerPoint presentation for use in staff training
- Links to HSC/TAFE website and other relevant sites
Tip 3: Everyone’s Guide to Recognition – NEW EDITION
- Found on Educational Capability website
- New chapters on processing Recognition
- Hyperlinks to relevant websites and for easy navigation
- Frequently asked questions covering nearly every possible Recognition scenario
Tip 4: 2007 Guide to Enrolment and Enrolment Adjustment forms
- Found on Educational Capability website
- Updated annually
- Hyperlinked for easy navigation
- Detailed instructions on processing all types of forms
Tip 5: SCIS
- What If Student Record Summaries
- SCIENRSRS
- GOLD 2 for What If report
- Shows all possible entitlements based on previous TAFE studies
- Complements the E-services report available to students
Tip 6: CIDO
- Standard exemption entries
- Advanced Standing Arrangements
- Course Student Assessment Guides
- Unit Guides
Tip 7: Learning and Assessment Strategy Form
- A useful new resource for Recognition recording?
- May need to be customised, or perhaps a new version for Recognition assessment could be added?
- Available on CIDO for every course
- Full course structure shown with unit codes and names
- Codes for types of evidence presented
Tip 8: HSC/TAFE and TAFE/Uni Credit Transfer websites
- Link to the sites from the TAFE NSW website
- HSC/TAFE site shows all entitlements for Standard exemptions based on HSC study
- Shows possible units that students may gain credit for, based on VET study in school
- High rate of use in schools
- TAFE/Uni site links to Universities with credit transfer websites
Tip 9: Tools for processing Overseas study
- Country Education Profiles – AEI website (Australian Education International)
- Obtain a password from TAFE International Education Unit – Debra Pinkerton
- 9217 4574
- Multicultural Education Unit booklets map overseas school and university qualifications to Australian levels
Tip 10: Curriculum Centre Gateway sites and your colleagues
- Many new Recognition resources under construction
- Funded by ESC, BVET and COAG
- Will be in hard copy and electronic formats
- SCIS Help Desk
- Progressions and Completions Unit (David Hooker’s unit)
- Your campus support staff