4.3-What does the website offer?
By providing its label of leading the development of foundation skills in the workplace, the site offers a range of resources including Numeracy targeting the Australian workplace.
In particular, the resource of the Numeracy by Measure is very interesting. This resource is a free professional development resource to build practitioner awareness of workplace measurement skills to better meet the skills needs of adults in the workplace including: understanding measurement in the workplace context, understanding measurement skills areas, building workplace measurement skills, unpacking measurement skills using the Australian Core Skills Framework. The Numeracy by Measure includes a Numeracy by Measure guide with professional development activities, ‘snapshots’ that unpack the measurement skills in authentic job tasks including bicycle fitting, cabinet fitting, health monitoring, show fitting, small goods packing and tyre wall markings.
In addition, I find that the resources such as a PD guide for WELL (Workplace English Language and Literacy), Digital Ready, Foundation Skills Assessment kit, and Numeracy by Measure, Be Money Smart, ACSF Assessment tools, ACSF Skills check, Foundation Skills Videos, FSK Training Package, Growing skills trainer guide, Linking ACSF mapping information, How to locate foundation skills into a unit of competency, Numeracy Focus, and Numeracy in practice are extremely important for all VET trainers that contribute toward the achievement of levels set by the ACSF.
4.4-Who might find the website useful?
Confirming on its web page as "leading the development of foundation skills in the workplace" (AWPN, n.d), I have found that, teaching and learning in the VET context, this site is one of the core resources for all VET teachers. Therefore, the site will be crucial for all VET trainers/teachers and learners, in teaching and learning of broad areas of VET courses.
Reference
AWPN (Australian Workplace Practitioners' Network, n.d.). Resources. Retrieved 19 September 2016 from http://awpn.com.au/resources/
4.5-How might you use/ how have you used this website with students?
With a range of information from the site, I found this resource is helpful in keeping activities on right tracks. For example, in teaching and learning the topic of SIR20216 - Certificate II in Retail Services (Release 1), with the resources, this site provides a considerable amount of information in designing activities for on-going assessment or formative assessment during classroom sessions and/or summative assessment at the end of the teaching program. Activities towards units of competency such as SIRXIND002 - Organise and maintain the store environment (Release 1), and SIRRINV002 - Control stock (Release 1) could be effectively achieved by implementing resources for designing new on-going or classroom activities.
Although the resources are closely linked to the Australian workplaces, I have found that the information from the site is not focused on details of classroom activities, or formative assessment, therefore, the teachers might use this information to generate their own classroom activities that abide by the requirements of the relevant Units of competency.
By strongly focusing on units of competency, I will regularly check new information from this site in order to design activities of all formative and summative assessments for my teaching in the VET context.
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