Professional Development Seminars
These seminars successfully target the questions most often asked by RTO managers, training coordinators and compliance officers. Few people appreciate a 'lecture'; our informal presentation style actively encourages your questions, comments and feedback. Our goal is to coach and empower participants to achieve a business culture of continuous improvement and professional development.
The comprehensive four (4) hour duration means your day will not be unreasonably disrupted. Similarly, your investment of just $245 per seminar is intended to make attending both seminars financially realistic.
Seminar 1 - The RTO Manager's 'Toolkit' - 4 hours - $295
In simple terms, the AQTF Essential Standards are a quality assurance system for the training industry. It differs from some of the early quality assurance concepts in that the business is obligated to ‘live and breathe’ continuous improvement.
Topics include:
- Effective liaison / contact with stakeholders
- Recording, collating and acting on stakeholder feedback
- Continuous improvement, corrective action, opportunity for improvement
- Linking continuous improvement to each of the three AQTF Standards
- Trainer and Assessor qualifications / requirements according to the AQTF
- Compliance requirements to trainers and assessors
- Professional development for RTO staff
- The Australian Qualification Framework (AQF)
Seminar 2 – Training and Assessment Design, Validation and Moderation - 4 hours - $295
Training packages listed on the National Training Information Service (NTIS) have a life of 5 years. That means your training and assessment must be updated to align with the new package at least every 5 years. RTO mangers can be intimidated by the idea of writing a new training program, but it doesn't need to be an onerous task.
With out doubt, grasping the principles of assessment validation and moderation are among the most challenging for RTO managers, trainers and assessors. It is however, one of those subjects where 'once the penny drops', you wonder what all the confusion was about.
Topics include:
- The history and evolution of Training Packages and the Australian Qualification Framework (AQF)
- Terminology: unit of competency, element, performance criteria, critical aspects of evidence, range of variables, employability skills
- Rules of evidence, principles of assessment
- Assessment tools for AQF level II and III
- Assessment tools for AQF level IV and V
- Mapping of assessment to the training package
- Step by step assessment validation and moderation
- Determine the assessment process for your industry and your training
- Rules of evidence, principles of assessment
