Recognition - New teaching resource!
The TAFE NSW Women’s Programs Unit in partnership with the Centre for Learning Innovation has developed a fantastic new interactive, website for teachers and students!
The website is at http://www.womenskills.nsw.edu.au and is available to anyone with an internet connection! The content is designed to be as interactive and as fun as possible to encourage women to log on and work through activities about skills identification and recognition.
Who is it for?
The website is aimed at women TAFE students as well as other women who are keen to discover and identify their skills. Women can then learn how to use these skills in order to gain Recognition in further study or employment. The website can also be used by men and youth as the concepts are gender neutral and applicable to all.
How is it used?
The website can be used as a stand alone tool; in class groups with a teacher or facilitator; with a career counsellor; or in conjunction with the print resource Women’s Skills: Valuing your Experience (2004).
What’s in it?
The website consists of four main areas:
- Skills and You: Interactive activities to assist women to discover the informal skills they already have and how important these are. There are also interviews with women TAFE students who talk about their journeys and how identifying their skills assisted them with their work and education choices.
Getting Ahead: activities to assist women to rename informal skills into formal skills and to use these to apply for recognition in further training and employment. There are examples of documents that can be used in a portfolio as well as opportunities for women to attempt TAFE recognition processes.
- Websites that can assist women
- Glossary of terms.
Further Information:
TAFE Women’s Programs Unit
Clerical Support 92445557
Or Amanda.capilli@tafensw.edu.au