THE LEARNING POWERHOUSE 2005 …

What’s Happening in the Engine Room?

Session Details

CONCURRENT SESSIONS 5 - 2.50 - 4.40 PM

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EngageMe: Innovative practices and implications for TAFE NSW delivery to young people
Theatre

Sue Souter
Program Manager
Community & Disabilities Programs
TAFE NSW Access & General Education
Curriculum Centre

Anne Paterson
Chief Education Officer TAFE NSW
Access & General Education Curriculum Centre

The engagement of young people in education and training is one of the challenges that face today’s teachers. A & GE CC has researched this aspect of teaching today’s 'digital natives' and is also piloting a program to engage young learners in by using the converged technologies of mlearning and online learning.

Sue Souter has extensive experience in managing a diverse range of projects including the TAFE NSW HYPAR & ArtStart Programs. Anne Paterson has managed the development of e-learning resources and has experience in facilitation of online meetings and using various forms of communication technology for educational purposes.

MP3 Audio (12.9 MB, 28 mins)

Leadership Speed Thinking
Dining Room

Jai Waters
Manager Organisational Development,
TAFE NSW South Western Sydney Institute

Virginia Baker-Woolf
R/Manager, Staff Learning,
TAFE NSW Sydney Institute

Excellent leadership is essential to the maximum functioning and sustainability of all organisations especially in an environment of change. Leaders inspire and influence through vision, integrity and effectiveness. The role of the leader is no longer confined to the CEO or Institute Director but is being extended to managers, team leaders, head teachers and teachers. Leadership has become a key competency for all staff.

Come and join a speed conversation circle on the topic of leadership. You will move around the circle in focused paired conversations and you will come away with new learning about leadership and about yourself as a leader.

Towards an Evaluation of the Whole Person in Practice
Dining Room

Dr Glenn P Costin
Teacher, Building and Construction
TAFE NSW Riverina Institute

This session will focus upon key issues surrounding the development and evaluation of skilful practice or work. Informed by extensive participatory action research, the workshop explores soft, employability, and generic skills, and most importantly, how these are developed and evaluated in context. Delegates will be aided in developing an understanding of the theoretical and practical arguments surrounding any evaluative technique approaching the whole person through engagement with the concept from the perspective of their own practices.

Paper (74KB)

Webs of Learning for Web-Based Learning
Room 9A

Jennifer Harding
Head Teacher, Business Studies
TAFE NSW Sydney Institute

Kim Magee
Head Teacher, Health and Recreation
TAFE NSW Sydney Institute

Karen Doughty
Teacher, Beauty Therapy
TAFE NSW Sydney Institute

Jennifer Barlow
Teacher, Human Resource Management
TAFE NSW Sydney Institute

The use of web-based learning began at Sutherland College in 2000. Learnscope projects, a culture of ‘can do’ and strong leadership has allowed teaching sections to offer blended learning options in a diverse and sometimes unexpected areas.

This session will enable people to:

Find out what teachers and trainers are doing to make learning even more enjoyable and effective in Aquatics, Beauty Therapy, Music, Management, Training and Assessment.
learn how straightforward it can be to use different teaching and learning methods
ask a panel questions about the implementation and management of blended learning
discuss what you're doing

Using Mobile and Wireless Technology in Literacy and Numeracy Development
Room 5C

Julie Esson
R/SEO & Adult Literacy/Numeracy Teacher,
TAFE NSW Access and General Education curriculum Centre

The aim of this workshop is to give hands on experience in using a mobile phone to SMS and send pictures to a moblogging website.

Participants will look at moblogging sites, explore literacy and numeracy delivery possibilities and be introduced to some of the underpinning/developing theory in m-learning.

Participants are encouraged to bring their camera phones to use in the session, however, having a camera phone is NOT a requirement to come to this session.

Paper (76KB)

New Directions in Aboriginal Education - The Goorie Research and Study Program
Room 9BC

Klara Marosszeky
Course Coordinator/Teacher English and Communications
TAFE NSW North Coast Institute

Stephen Jamieson
Coordinator Aboriginal Education
Training Unit, TAFE NSW North Coast Institute

Rosslyn Sten
Aboriginal Student Support Officer
TAFE NSW North Coast Institute

The Goorie Research and Study Program (GRASP) is a collaboration between the Aboriginal Education Training Unit and General Education at Lismore TAFE. Developed with significant input from Aboriginal staff and specifically designed for Aboriginal students, it differs substantially from other programs available to this student group. Individual planned, competency based training programs and the way students are enrolled and assessed in GRASP have proven to be very effective in meeting the particular needs of Aboriginal students on the North Coast.

Paper (65KB)

Building a Culture of Innovation within the VET system
Room 7ABC

Tess Julian
Director, ratio

Tess Julian is the Director of ratio, a consultancy which specialises in vocational education and training.

Tess has led a team of consultants in developing the Innovation-Ideas that Work materials, funded by Australian National Training Authority (ANTA ). Ratio was contracted by ANTA to develop and trial competency standards for innovation.

Out of the project came a methodology for building innovation in organisations which has been successfully implemented at Kangan Batman TAFE among other organisations.

This presentation will go through the methodology using Kangan Batman and other workplaces as examples.

Interactive Ochre - Infotainment as an Educational Tool
Heritage Room

Jeff Hunter
Project Manager, TafeSA Regional

Interactive Ochre is an interactive CD delivering an Aboriginal perspective on cultural awareness training. Using entertaining and empowering multimedia resources the session demonstrates 'infotainment' as a methodology. Interactive Ochre was designed to prepare service professionals to work more effectively with Aboriginal people. Educational infotainment has potential for all workgroups and in this multimedia rich era uses contemporary media to engage XYO generation audiences. Jeff is an experienced practitioner in online and work based learning who been a PD officer in Tafe SA Regional online training unit for the past 5 years.

MP3 Audio (15.5 MB, 34 mins)