TAE40122 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

To complete the course 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:

Developing your own Vocational Education and Training (VET) Professional Development Plan

This involves identifying and planning opportunities for you to improve yourself professionally as a vocational trainer and assessor.

Delivering Training Sessions

This course involves planning and delivering various types of training including face-to-face, in-person, adult education training sessions based on nationally recognised training products (or aligned with other recognised frameworks). You will need to deliver:

• a series of 3 sequential group training sessions of at least 30 minutes each to a group of at least 4 learners
• 2 different individual training sessions of at least 30 minutes each to a learner who is not part of the above group.

These sessions must be delivered in their entirety, from start to finish and facilitate acquisition of skills and knowledge and learner independence.

Some of these sessions are done as part of a practicum under supervision, and some are observed by Accellier assessors. Depending on the circumstances this is done via video recording, live video call or during a mutually agreed workplace visit.

A range of other training sessions are required including:

• 2 x 30 minute coaching/mentoring sessions with an individual
• 2 x 30 minute workplace learning facilitation sessions with an individual

Designing, developing and planning training

This course will have you designing, developing and planning a range of training activities including overall course designs for nationally recognised training (units of competency), as well as lesson planning for groups and individual learners. It will include creating plans for both traditional classroom style learning and workplace learning.

Assessment Validation

This involves participating various validation meetings including pre-assessment validation of 3 assessment tools and validation of 3 assessment tools after they have been used to assess candidates.

Assessing competency

This is about being an assessor. You will discover that assessment is so much more than just marking exams. You will learn how being a qualified assessor is an important and powerful responsibility to hold.

To achieve this qualification you need to conduct 6 assessments including a recognition of prior learning (RPL) assessment for 3 students across 2 units of competency. This includes activities where reasonable adjustments are made, and reflection and improvement of one’s own performance is undertaken.

Foundation skills, core skills and employability skills support

This will involve providing support to learners as part of other teaching and assessing activities elsewhere in the course. It means adjusting resources, shifting training strategies and getting support and advice externally to support your learners to develop their foundation skills, core skills and employability skills as part of broader vocational training programs.

As part of this you will be required to include core skills and employability skills support to 2 learners in at least 2 x 30 minute sessions. These may be integrated as part of the above sessions.

Practicum / Work Placement

This meets the requirement of the unit TAEDEL415 Complete a practicum in a vocational education and training environment and ties in nicely with all the other tasks. It formalises your real-world work experience and gives you objectives to work towards.

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 TAE40122 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment with Accellier you must:

• Have English language and literacy skills sufficient to undertake study at Certificate IV level.
• Have access to a Vocational Education and Training (VET) 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 access to a suitably experienced 3^rd party person who can assist us with making our assessment decisions where required (e.g., you have the support of a manager or supervisor to do the course).
• Have good 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. Try our digital literacy self-assessment here if you’re unsure.
• Have regular 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 essential)
• 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.