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Achieving Excellence | 15 Magic Words | 15 More Magic Words
Achieving Excellence : Best Practice for Training Organisations
This has been entirely updated in accordance with AQTF: Essential Standards for Continuing Registration 2010, but it can also be used to establish systems required in relation to the Essential Standards for Initial Registration.
If you don' have effective policies and procedures, you have no:
- protection against the happenstances of Murphy's Law;
- shield against litigation and other undesirable threats to your business;
- guidelines for dealing with complaints and appeals in the interests of natural justice;
- guarantee that all staff will perform the same essential tasks in accordance with the principles you have established;
- way to track and measure performance and plan quality improvement
- visibility, in that you cannot guarantee that your business actually does do what you say it does
- reliable basis for extending your business to include CRICOS registration; a process that requires policies and procedures to a nitpicking degree
- operational plan for determining the outcomes desired for your business
No quality business ever operates without a set of policies and procedures. The manual will explain the 'why' and the model policies and procedures will give you a sound 'what'.
This system is the reason our RTO has been 100% compliant in all audits, including registration. We continuously audit it to make sure we stay that way.
This product is not just a set of templates that you fill in, but a complete set of model:
- policies
- procedures
- best practice assessment guidelines
- forms and
- management tools
152 documents in all, for you to customise to your organisation.
They have been proven 'Best Practice' for the past ten years and which have guaranteed quality outcomes over ARF, and three AQTF versions. If AQTF is altered down the track (and my money is on a reversion to previous 'control' standards) the design of this product eliminates the need for constant rewrites and re-organisation, being aligned to the functional divisions of RTO business, not 'lock stepped' to standard numbering or in a 'solid state' single manual which requires total edits of the whole system just to insert a new document, policy or procedure.
RTO Management
Human Resources Management
Training and Assessment Systems
Student Services
Course Implementation
Occupational Health and Safety
AQTF Risk Management systems
A simple index file provides the link between the standards and the functions, making it easy for auditors and organisations to track evidence.
All documents are hyperlinked to a Master Document Index, allowing you to call up each and edit them. The manual losts
They are also designed to be either printed into a set of ring binders, or kept, as we do ours on an intranet. If the latter approach is used, then making a PDF file of current versions and supplying critical documents and forms to your staff on CD is also far cheaper than issuing new print manuals each time you edit the system.
The design also makes it simple to 'copy and paste' procedures into a seperate document if required.
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Cost: $1650 incl. GST and p/h inclusive of CD with full set of resources |
Updated September 2010 to meet AQTF 2010 standards Now available: Sneak preview |
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15 Magic Words: Instructional design for VET trainers
The Department of Education and Training (QLD), has reported that almost 50% of RTOs are failing to meet AQTF Standard 1 because they do not know how to unpack a Unit of Competency or produce resources that assess the whole standard. This is a sad indictment of the standards of trainer training; with many trainers and assessors still possessing '3 day wonder' BSZ40198 qualifications or undertaking TAA/TAE upgrades gaining full credit for Units which do not 'produce the goods'. If you feel your understanding of basic instructional design is wanting, or if you want to gain some innovative and fresh insights to save time and effort, then 15 Magic Words are definitely required for your vocabulary!
This book is designed for the novice and experienced developer and contains all the 'tricks of the trade' that have earned us praise for the quality of our training resources. These are the simple techniques we teach in our TAE40110 program and which sees even absolute beginners or NESB participants producing resources that are models of best practice.
This is a volume for pragmatists and takes you step-by-step from designing or unpacking benchmarks through to evaluation of your work to ensure that you meet the principles of assessment and the rules of evidence. Our students have commented that our TAE40110 resources, from which the core of this volume is taken, are extremely readable, and even enjoyable!
It is accompanied by a CD of templates for you to customise, adapt and use in your own design work.
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Price not yet available Regret delay due to overwork writing new HLT07 resources, particularly the Version 4 upgrades. I am dancing as fast as I can! |
Due November 2011: Sneak preview |
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15 More Magic Words: The VET Facilitator's Handbook
This book is designed for the novice and experienced trainer alike and contains much material not available 'all in one place' and is accompanied by a CD with additional resources that you can use to plan and deliver your sessions.
This is a volume for pragmatists, and judged by our own students as highly readable and enjoyable, with any theory explained in simple, everyday terms. It will take you through the basics of designing and costing training activities, right through to developing learner profiles and active learning sessions.
An extensive, but easy to apply, section shows the 'hands-on' application of learning styles and whole brain theory to engaging the learners for more satisfying results.
Whatever type of learner you are and whatever your preferred teaching style, there is plenty in this book to engage your own interest and provide pointers to improving your craft.
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Regret delay due to overwork writing new HLT07 resources I am dancing as fast as I can! |
Due December 2011: Sneak preview |
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Last updated; August 11 2011