ICVET Promoting Emerging Practice, TAFE NSW International Centre for VET Teaching and Learning

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The spark sustained!

CONFERENCE REVIEW |Wendy Wyatt

Build on your foundations, persevere, aim high and work and share with your team were keys messages of the Learning Powerhouse 2007 Conference.  More>>

Workplace Learning: Communicating the 'E' in TAFE

SESSION SNAPSHOT | Jan Macindoe

“Listen, and listen again” was a key message from Marilyn Enders highlighting the critical importance of your communication strategy when managing a workplace learning program. More>>

Meet a presenter: David Grainger tells HisStory

INTERVIEW | David Grainger

“Everybody has a story to tell!” says David. And that’s what he is tapping into with his innovative project, MyStory.  David is all about making connections with his students, making learning interesting, personal and multi-layered and wants to include the wider community in this learning using current but ‘easy access’ technology.   More>

Partnerships: Turning wastewater into resource water

SESSION SNAPSHOT | Jill Gientzotis

The Malabugilmah Aboriginal community and its partners were told, “you’ll never get anywhere with that mate. Well they were wrong” More>

Partnerships: Diverse delivery sustains spark

SESSION SNAPSHOT | Jill Gientzotis

Sometimes providing work based training seems just too hard. The industry isn’t right, perhaps all small business, or work comes in cycles. The Music Department at TAFE NSW Hunter Institute has developed a model based upon project based learning and assessment, which is collaborative, facilitative and ultimately delivers jobs in that most fickle of industries: music. More>>

Workplace Learning : Sausage Rolls

SESSION SNAPSHOT | Jan Macindoe

Sausages were the catalyst for switching to a predominantly workplace assessment approach for apprentices which has “revitalised the Meat Retailing section” at Nepean campus.  More>>

Sustenance at the showcase

OVERVIEW | Bernadette Cavanagh

For a third consecutive year the Learning Powerhouse has provided TAFE NSW teachers with an unparalleled opportunity to engage with models of innovative teaching and learning practice, ways of supporting learner engagement, and a forum to share resources and exemplars of excellence.   More>>

Workplace Learning: Mixing it up

SESSION SNAPSHOT | Jan Macindoe

Is it possible to have online and face-to-face students working together, using common resources and interacting online? More>>

Partnerships: Striking a match

ARTICLE | Jill Gientzotis

In 2000 staff from the Cootamundra campus of TAFE NSW Riverina Institute responded to an enquiry from a staff member of the NSW Rural Fire Service for training in report writing. Within a couple of months a training program had commenced with up to 35 Fire Control Supervisors from western and central NSW. More>>

Partnerships: Automotive partnership in Sydney's Heartland

SESSION SNAPSHOT | Jill Gientzotis

Not being afraid to have a go enabled TAFE professionals to bring it all together.
Teachers in the automotive section at Blacktown College established a partnership with the Heartland Holden group to meet the present and future staffing needs of Heartland Holden. More>>

Meet a showcaser: Maria D'Angelo

INTERVIEW | Maria D'Angelo

Linking together, not just across the corridor, or across the border, but across the world!  That’s the aim of the Business Educator Network, which was showcased at the Conference. More>>

Workplace Learning : Corporate relationship building

SESSION SNAPSHOT | Jan Macindoe

Providing workplace training and assessment for up to 3,000 staff working for an employer that covers 95% of the state is a major undertaking in anyone’s terms. Partnership with Country Energy has moved TAFE’s workplace delivery approaches into a new level of sophistication and complexity. More>>

Meet a participant

INTERVIEW | Catherine Starr

Catherine Starr’s professional connections with her students, her colleagues and her community are such that she’s making quite an impact in her corner of the world.  More>>

Workplace Learning: lessons learned from four sessions

OVERVIEW | Jan Macindoe

The great variety of workplace learning undertaken by TAFE NSW ranges from relatively small-scale shifts – where classroom delivery for apprentices gives way to workplace assessment – to large scale partnership arrangements with an employer wanting workplace training for up to 3,000 staff. More>

Partnerships: Lessons learned from four sessions

OVERVIEW | Jill Gientzotis

Over the last ten years relationships between education and training providers, and industry, enterprise, and community have changed significantly. The creation of partnerships underpins Vocational Education and Training, and fosters flexibility, innovation and responsiveness. More>>

International Research Snapshot

RESEARCH SNAPSHOT | Marjan Mckeough

ETIS is the proactive library and information service for staff of the Department of Education and Training. It is located at Strathfield, as part of the Centre for Learning Innovation. More >>

ICVET Update: September 2007

UPDATE | Maret Staron

I’m so pleased to be able to say that this year’s Learning Powerhouse Conference was a great success with over 550 attending.  Thanks to those who put so much effort, particularly Cliff Trood and Susie Moore, into organising the conference, and many thanks to the presenters and showcase organisers who shared their knowledge so willingly. More >>