Do you need to train and assess other people either in the workplace, your community organisation, church or for training purposes? Do you desire to be more effective in training others?

Do you need an upgrade from a previous training qualification to the new qualification?

Lifestyle Training School offers a unique range of training options tailored to meet your and your organisation’s requirements.

Learn from experienced trainers with exceptional communication skills.

A nationally recognised Certificate IV in Training & Assessment will be issued on completion. This qualification gives you the training qualification necessary to train in Registered Training Organisations Australia wide.

The course content, as delivered by Unity College, addresses both core (C) units for this qualification plus a selection of elective units (E) totalling fourteen nationally specified competencies as follows:

• TAAENV401A - Work effectively in vocational education and training (C)

This unit specifies the competency required to work effectively in the policy and operating environment of the vocational education and training sector.

This competency addresses work outcomes that are essential for competent performance in a training and assessment environment as well as underpinning the competence defined in many other units within the Training and Assessment Training Package.

• TAAENV402A - Foster and promote an inclusive learning culture (C)

This competency addresses the responsibilities of all persons in a training and/or assessment organisation to promote a positive and inclusive learning culture which actively acknowledges respects and builds on individual differences, and integrates principles which underpin inclusivity into all training and/or assessment practices.

In this unit the principles of inclusivity are applied to working with both colleagues clients.

• TAAENV403A - Ensure a health and safe learning environment (C)

This competency provides a focus for occupational health and safety (OHS) in the vocational education and training sector. It covers the legislative and common law duty of care responsibilities of trainers/facilitators, assessors and other parties in the provision of training and/or assessment services.

This is a critical responsibility involving knowledge and skills to assess the learning environment for hazards and risks and to apply risk control strategies to ensure the safety, health and welfare of learners

• TAAENV404A - Develop innovative ideas at work (E)

This competency specifies the competency required to develop innovative ideas in the workplace.

This unit addresses the skills needed to interpret or observe a need and to develop a detailed idea. It covers the skills and knowledge required to develop new ideas or new uses for old ideas.

In the vocational education and training context, developing new ideas and innovation is an essential process to improve the quality and provision of training and/or assessment services.

• TAADES401A - Use Training packages to meet client needs (C)

This unit addresses the processes required to maintain a high level of professional performance in the vocational education and training field. It includes modelling high standards of performance in accordance with professional standards and procedures, and the processes and outcomes involved in determining professional development needs and participating in associated activities.

This competency is designed to assist vocational education and training personnel to identify strategies for maintaining currency and to respond to changes in vocational education and training policy and the operating environment

• TAADES402A - Design and develop learning programs (C)

Learning programs document a cohesive and integrated learning process for the learner. They include the learning outcomes or the learning objectives (derived from the competency standards or other criteria) and outline the content, sequence and structure of learning and the delivery and assessment method/s to be used.

This unit addresses the skills and knowledge needed to identify the parameters of a learning program, determine the design, outline the content and review its effectiveness

• TAADEL401A - Plan and organise group based delivery (C)

This competency involves developing a delivery plan that is used by the trainer/facilitator to guide and manage delivery to a group. It encompasses interpreting the learning environment and delivery requirements for the identified group of learners, developing session plans, and preparing and organising the resources required.

• TAADEL402A - Facilitate group based delivery (E)

The competency of delivering training and facilitating learning to a group involves preparing, guiding supporting and managing learners using a range of delivery methods, knowledge, skills and behaviours that enhance learning.

This unit also defines the skills needed to support and manage interactions with and between individuals in a group.

• TAADEL403A - Facilitate individual learning (C)

This unit specifies the competency required to facilitate individual learning through a one-on-one relationship between a learner and facilitator.

Individual learning/facilitation relationships may be used to help an individual or individuals meet personal or job goals, learn new skills/knowledge or develop new learning / work behaviours. The role of the trainer/facilitator using these techniques is to advise, guide, support and respond to the needs of the individual learner.

• TAADEL404A - Facilitate work-based learning (C)

This unit specifies the competency required to use Training Packages and accredited courses as a tool to support industry, organisation or individual competency development needs. To complete this unit, you need to identify a training and assessment environment where you can access information and apply the skills that you are developing.

• TAAASS401A - Plan and organise assessment (C)

This unit specifies the competence required to plan and organise the assessment process in a competency-based assessment system. It addresses the competence of planning the assessment process and making the organisational arrangements which enable assessment to occur. It is applicable in both a learning and assessment pathway and an assessment only pathway.

The critical focus of this unit is on developing an assessment plan that will be used to guide assessor/s in conducting competency-based assessments. The unit also covers contextualisation of the assessment benchmarks and assessment tools to address the environment in which assessment will take place and organising the human, material and physical resources needed to conduct the assessment.

• TAAASS402A - Assess competence (C)

This unit specifies the aptitude required to assess the competence of a candidate in accordance with a developed assessment plan. It includes assessment carried out in an assessment and learning pathway as well as assessment conducted in an assessment only pathway.

The focus of this unit is on interpreting the collected evidence and making a judgement of competence against the specified competency standards by applying the principles of assessment and rules of evidence.

• TAAASS403A - Develop assessment tools (C)

This unit specifies the competence required to develop assessment tools.

An assessment tool is used to guide the collection of quality evidence in the assessment process. It includes the instruments for collecting evidence, based on the selected assessment methods and the procedures to be followed in conducting the assessment.

The development of effective and relevant assessment tools requires interpreting the benchmarks for assessment to determine the evidence needed to demonstrate competency. It also involves analysing the assessment context to ensure the tools will be appropriate and relevant, identifying or confirming assessment methods which most effectively address the evidence requirements, then designing and developing the assessment tool documentation.

• TAAASS404A - Participate in assessment validation (C)

Validation is a process involving assessors working in collaboration to review, compare and evaluate their assessment process and their assessment outcomes in relation to the same unit/s of competency. This includes validating assessment methods/tools, the evidence that was collected using these assessment methods/tools and the interpretation of that evidence to make a judgement of competence.

This unit specifies the competence required to participate in an assessment validation process.

• TAATAS401A - Maintain information requirements of training and/or assessment organizations (E)

This unit focuses on information to clients, record keeping and reporting in the context of a dedicated work function relating to this competence or as part of work carried out by trainers/assessors.

This unit addresses the timely dissemination of accurate information to learner/s and the recording and reporting of training and/or assessment services data.

• TAALLN401A – Address language, literacy and numeracy issues within learning and assessment practice (E)

This unit specifies the competency required to recognise the language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) demands of training and assessment and tailor training and assessment to suit individual skill levels, including accessing relevant support resources.

Assessment is conducted at the intensives as well as through relevant written work and the process of delivering and assessing actual training sessions.

Unity College offers a choice of delivery modes to suit most adult learners. The full course can be undertaken either via a FasTracK group of short-term intensives covering a nominal face to face component of 32 hours (for example this can be delivered in three Friday afternoon/Saturday daytime sessions) or in 8-10 weeks (on a part-time basis of 1 x 3 hour session per week plus the option of joining the FasTracK sessions as required).

The Upgrade Package has been mapped against the BSZ40198 and BSZ50198 training packages and will cover the following six competencies as detailed previously in this outline:

TAAENV401A - Work effectively in vocational education and training

TAAENV402A - Foster and promote an inclusive learning culture

TAAENV403A - Ensure a health and safe learning environment

TAADES401A - Use Training packages to meet client needs

TAADEL403A - Facilitate individual learning

TAAASS403A - Develop assessment tools

The Upgrade Package will be delivered in a single, full day intensive.

Prerequisites apply to studying at the fast-paced/intensive level as follows:

Fast-track Upgrade Package

Designed for the trainer/assessor with a current (within the last two years) Cert IV in Assessment and Workplace Training and/or who are actively involved in training.

Certified copies of BSZ40198 - Cert IV in Assessment and Workplace Training or BSZ50198 - Dip Assessment and Workplace Systems transcripts and qualifications must be provided to the college upon applying.

Fast-track Full Course

Designed for experienced trainers, people with supervisory and leadership roles in their organisation and teachers. This package would suit those with a partial Cert IV in Assessment and Workplace Training or needing to freshen up their skills and knowledge together with learning the new competencies in this latest qualification.

Full Course

This course will not presume prior training knowledge; it is for anyone who wishes to gain a training qualification.

The course also includes self-paced student assignments and possible one on one tutorials with the trainer/s.

Fastrack Full Course by Correspondence: AUD $950

10 Week Full Course: AUD $1350

Partial course rates and group rates are available on application.

Cancellations received in writing 10 days or more before the commencement of each session are eligible for a refund but a one off administration fee of $100 will be retained. A transfer to future training dates without sufficient notice is effectively a cancellation from the existing enrolment date as Unity College will incur real losses. No refunds can be given if less than 10 days' notice of cancellation is received, which is usual practice in the training industry. This is because significant expense has already been outlaid. Trainers and venues have been booked, customised learning materials have been prepared and clients have received pre-course information. A suitable substitute participant is acceptable given sufficient notice. If you are unable to attend all or part of a course and have already paid, you are entitled to enrol in the next course for a 25% discount. Unity College reserves the right to alter programs without notice. If Unity College cancels the course (which it may do at its discretion) transfer to another course is encouraged or a full refund provided.

• For a application form email certIVapplication@sysm.com.au