TAE40116 Upgrade from TAE40110

Everyone’s upgrade pathway is a little different, depending on what units are already held on your old Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.

To complete the upgrade, you will be required to undertake a range of projects and practical tasks, observations, written activities and interviews. We’ll work with you to help you develop the knowledge and skills to be successful, as well as give you a broad toolkit of templates and examples to work from.

Major assessment activities include:

Planning, designing and developing assessment tools, and validating them

Here you develop three plans for how you would assess three different units of competency, then develop a full set of assessment tools for them. This typically includes things like developing test questions, marking guides, observation checklists and assignments or projects for your students. You’ll then finalise those three tools by sitting down with at least one other person and reviewing them thoroughly, making the required changes from your review.

While it’s fairly detailed and involved process, it’s an extremely important skill for any VET trainer and assessor to have and will enhance your practice remarkably.

Addressing adult language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills

This part of the course includes some projects on determining the LLN requirements of a job role, a course and the LLN needs of two of your learners. You then provide LLN support to them while you train and assess them.

There are two sections we want you to read, understand and be comfortable with before enrolling with us:

1. The Important Enrolment Information section – a combination of a client handbook and general terms and conditions which apply to all courses.
2. The information below which includes entry requirements specific to this course.

To enrol into a qualification with Accellier you must:

• Have a good English language and literacy skills sufficient to undertake study at Certificate IV level.
• Have access to a training organisation to practice your skills and be assessed in.
• Be able to demonstrate vocational competency in your proposed teaching and assessing area (Vocational competency is defined as broad industry knowledge and experience, e.g., having industry experience or holding a relevant qualification).
• Have some basic computer skills – most importantly, the ability organise and manage your files and documents, edit documents, research information on the internet, install and use apps, record video on your phone/iPad or similar.
• Have access to a computer with a reliable broadband Internet connection (there is a lot of video and audio material in the course, so having a good download speed and allowance is recommended)
• Be capable of self-motivation, time management and creative problem solving.
• Have a positive attitude and willingness to learn – you understand that learning anything worthwhile can be a challenge and you’re ready for that challenge.
• Bring a laptop if completing face-to-face training.

Your computer or laptop (this is just a rough guide) should be reasonably modern and you should have an up to date web browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome. It will need to have a word-processing application such as Microsoft Word or access to Google Docs. Generally speaking if you can see and hear YouTube-style videos then you’ll be able to take full advantage of our resources.