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ACPET PD INFOR & PRICING STRUCTURE 2019
Administration
- 2018 National Code Changes
- Contributing quality and compliance with the Standards for administration staff
- Corporate governance and clearer reporting to the board
- Everything you need to know before setting up an RTO
- Exploring Standard 1.13 – a high area of non-compliance
- Introduction to ELICOS
- Introduction to the Standards for RTOs 2015
- Introduction to VET
- Introduction to VET Quality Framework
Assessment
- Assessment questions – practical examples of good question
- Choosing an LLN assessment tool: Off-the-shelf or custom-built?
- Communication Strategies for Supporting Online Courses
- Competency mapping your qualifications
- Compliant ELICOS assessments – exploring the essentials
- Confidence vs Competence: Which is more useful when it comes to success
- Designing Training and Assessment Strategies (TAS) - The Five Fundamentals
- Developing assessment tools and using third party evidence
- Developing audit friendly and learner friendly RPL
- Ensuring third party assessment tools are compliant
- Great learning ideas for fostering student engagement
- Helping newly arrived international students integrate into the English language classroom
- How Quality Indicator (QI) Surveys can be used to inform RTO practices
- How to achieve a ‘good’ mapping outcome – and why this is so important for compliance
- Keys to best practice assessment tool design
- Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) made easy
- Strategies to support complex learners and when working in complex training environments
- Techniques for clustering units for delivery and assessment
- Techniques to help you successfully map your assessments
- Unpacking a training package, units of competency and assessment requirements
- Using the ACSF to Support Low Literacy Learners
- Validation of assessment – much more than the tools alone
- What to look for when selecting third party training and assessment resources
Business and financial management
- Building your RTO business overseas
- Developing a culture of professional development in your RTO
- Everything you need to know before setting up an RTO
- Labour Market Data - The Importance of Local Labour Market Data – An Introduction
- Labour Market Data – How can industry and occupation data be useful to strategic planning
- Labour Market Data - How can we measure our economic impact
- Managing RTO governance requirements
- Marketing compliance – Getting it right in your RTO
- Models for enhanced governance in RTOs
- Practical and simple strategies to help you build a better RTO
- Preparing your organisation to implement change - take control for success
- Preparing your RTO for re-registration
- Raising the Standard: Quality First
Compliance and auditing
- 2018 National Code Changes
- Adding a training product to scope
- Are you ready for audit?
- ASQA - Improving Quality
- Beyond the audit – responding to non-compliance
- Competency mapping your qualifications
- Compliant ELICOS assessments – exploring the essentials
- Designing Training and Assessment Strategies (TAS) - The Five Fundamentals
- Empowering your LMS to develop evidence
- Ensuring third party assessment tools are compliant
- Ensuring VET international students meet their online training requirements
- Exploring Standard 1.13 – a high area of non-compliance
- Getting Audit Ready
- How to achieve a ‘good’ mapping outcome – and why this is so important for compliance
- How to manage Volume of Learning requirements
- Internal auditing – tips and techniques and examples of schedules
- Introduction to the Standards for RTOs 2015
- Introduction to VET Quality Framework
- Maintaining Focus for Enterprise RTO's
- Managing RTO governance requirements
- Managing third party arrangements
- Managing transition from superseded training products
- Models for enhanced governance in RTOs
- Preparing your RTO for re-registration
- Raising the Standard: Quality First
- Top compliance challenges for trainers and assessors
- Update on Admissions Transparency - 1st session
- Update on Admissions Transparency - 2nd session
- What to look for when selecting third party training and assessment resources
E-learning, online and blended learning
- 10 ways to build interaction into online learning
- Choosing the right learning management system (LMS)
- Designing online quizzes – do, don’ts and must haves for VET
- Essential elements for designing blended learning
- How to take existing content and effectively put in online
- Online tools - simple and easy tools that can be used
- Planning and facilitating successful webinars
E-learning tools - Moodle
- Advanced Moodle
- Moodle from scratch
- Using Moodle for assessment
- Using Moodle to manage your blended learning
EAL and ELICOS
- Competency mapping your qualifications
- Compliant EAL and ELICOS assessment tools – what to include?
- Compliant ELICOS assessments – exploring the essentials
- Easy and effective ELICOS and EAL teacher professional development ideas
- Embedding simple, effective and engaging homework activities
- Empowering EAL and ELICOS students with English by using effective classroom
- Ensuring third party assessment tools are compliant
- Exploring the new ELICOS Standards – what do they mean, how should they be interpreted?
- Helping EAL and ELICOS teachers to work collaboratively
- Helping newly arrived international students integrate into the English language classroom
- Helping Shy EAL/ELICOS Students To Speak Up - It Can Be Done
- How to create and write compliant EAL assessments
- How to support EAL and ELICOS students learning English
- Introduction to ELICOS
- Let the students do the work! Effective strategies for student-led EAL and ELICOS
- Low resource EAL and ELICOS classrooms – getting around
- Measuring success in EAL and ELICOS teaching. How do we do it
- Preparing an effective EAL scope application – a beginner’s guide
- Preparing ELICOS and EAL courses for addition to scope
- Strategies for preparing engaging EAL and ELICOS excursions
- Supporting EAL and ELICOS students
- Teaching English language to mixed ability groups – pitfalls and successes
- Teaching numeracy in the ELICOS and EAL classrooms – an essential part of the curriculum
- Teaching tips for increasing participation with English – using group work with EAL and ELICOS students
- The new ELICOS standards
- The new ELICOS standards – analysing and applying the new standards?
- Validating EAL assessments – compliance tips and pitfalls
- Validation with EAL and ELICOS
Ergonomics and OHS
- Ergonomics in the workplace
- Let’s get moving – strategies for moving more and reducing workplace sedentariness
Foundations skills
- A common-sense approach to foundation skills in units of competency
- How to assess a unit of competency’s foundation skills
Higher education
- An overview of higher education governance
- Designing online quizzes for Higher Education students
- eLAMP course – how to develop your emerging leaders and managers
- Enhancing quality assurance in non-university Higher Education Providers
- Enhancing quality assurance in non-university Higher Education Providers
- How to help your students understand academic integrity
- Internal/Institutional quality assurance (IQA)
- Is your Institution ready for research? Address the leadership & management
- Provider self-assessment – how to conduct an effective assessment
- Thinking of becoming a higher education provider – the important issues to consider
- Understanding Higher Education course development, approval and review
- Using an e-portfolio approach in Higher Education
Human resources
- Communication toolkit – improve your team’s way of communicating and working
- Communicating successfully with people from different ethnic backgrounds
- Confident vs competent leadership - improve your success
- Conflict resolution
- Dealing with and motivating trainers and assessors to be their best
- Developing a culture of professional development in your RTO
- Ergonomics in the workplace
- Everyday human resource conversations
- Everything you need to know before setting up an RTO
- Helping Shy EAL/ELICOS Students To Speak Up - It Can Be Done
- How to have less mess, less stress and more success
- Human resources policies
- Managing and supporting vulnerable students
- Mitigating the risk of unfair dismissal
- Preparing for a discussion regarding staff non-performance
- Preparing your organisation to implement change - take control for success
- Reasonable management action
- Resilience in self
- Succession planning – tips and techniques
- Why it is important for managers to effectively coach on non-performance and the legal ramifications if they don’t
- Working with students under 18 – what you need to know!
- Workplace discrimination, harassment and bullying
- Workplace HR investigations – processes and tips
- You have a learner who is deaf or hard of hearing? What’s the challenge?
Industry engagement
- Getting industry engagement right – a blueprint for success
- Increasing student engagement in this new environment
- Making the most of your volunteers by developing, supporting and managing them well
Intro series
- Build a bridge to success: LLN support (introduction)
- How to achieve a good mapping outcome – why it is so important
- Introduction to VET
- Introduction to VET Quality Framework
- Introduction to the Standards for RTOs 2015
- Introduction to ELICOS
- Introduction to LinkedIn for business
- Introduction to Facebook for business
- Introduction to LinkedIn – how to optimise your profile
- Introduction to international education and Free Trade Agreements
International
- Introduction to international education and Free Trade Agreements
- Building your RTO business overseas
- Ensuring VET international students meet their online training requirements
- Meeting international student needs
LLN
- Build a bridge to success: LLN support (introduction)
- Build a bridge to success: LLN Support (masterclass)
- Choosing an LLN assessment tool: Off-the-shelf or custom-built?
- How to effectively embed LLN support into VET courses
- Language, literacy and numeracy support - embedding LLN support into the VET classroom!
- Standard 1 and LLN - has your RTO got what it takes
Legal and risk management
- Models for enhanced governance in RTOs
Management and leadership
- Building high performing teams
- Communication toolkit – improve your team’s way
- Dealing with and motivating trainers and assessors to be their best
- Efficient time management and task prioritisation
- Introduction to providing feedback
- Leading with resilience
- Making the most of your leadership style using Myer-Briggs
- Managing internal and external stakeholders
- Managing upwards
- Preparing your organisation to implement change - take control for success
- The art of delegation
Marketing
- Build brand awareness and a steady flow of warm leads (of your ideal customers) with a podcast series
- Effective lead nurture strategies that convert prospective students
- How to Build an Influential Brand that Stands Out in a Cluttered Marketplace
- How to claim your organisations real estate on LinkedIn
- How to Create a Great Story and Connect with your clients online
- How to develop a content marketing strategy for your business
- How to Develop a content plan and schedule for social media
- How to Develop a Personal Brand for your leadership role
- How to Develop an Ideal Client Profile to Improve your RTO’s Social Media Marketing Efforts
- How to disrupt your industry and differentiate your organisation – in a crowded market
- How to Market Your RTO on social media
- How to network on LinkedIn
- Increasing student engagement in this new environment
- LinkedIn profile - A checklist for success
- Marketing compliance – Getting it right in your RTO
- Take your first steps toward a sustainable enrolment model
Quality series
- Quality engagement with stakeholders
- Quality in assessment
- Quality in training
Social media and networking
- Build brand awareness and a steady flow of warm leads (of your ideal customers) with a podcast series
- Daily networking rituals on LinkedIn to keep you top of mind
- Effective lead nurture strategies that convert prospective students
- How to blend your face-to-face and online networking efforts
- How to build an influential brand that stands out in a cluttered marketplace
- How to claim your organisations real estate on LinkedIn
- How to Create a Great Story and Connect with your clients online
- How To Develop a Content Marketing Strategy for your Business
- How to Develop a content plan and schedule for social media
- How to Develop a Personal Brand for your leadership role
- How to develop a social media plan for your business
- How to Develop an Ideal Client Profile to Improve your RTO’s Social Media Marketing Efforts
- How to disrupt your industry and differentiate your organisation – in a crowded market
- How to Market Your RTO on social media
- How to network on LinkedIn
- How to post content from your organisations LinkedIn page
- Introduction to Facebook for business
- Introduction to industry event networking etiquette
- Introduction to LinkedIn – how to optimise your profile
- Introduction to LinkedIn for business
- LinkedIn profile - A checklist for success
- Using social media to attract new students and gain
- Using social media to engage learners, create communities
Staff and student well-being
- Creating an inclusive learning environment for LGBTIQ learners
- Dealing with and motivating trainers and assessors to be their best
- Helping Shy EAL/ELICOS Students To Speak Up - It Can Be Done
- How to have less mess, less stress and more success
- How to help your students understand academic integrity
- Keeping students in the loop: Communication strategies for supporting online courses
- Managing and supporting vulnerable students
- Meeting international student needs
- Self-awareness for happiness, balance and success
- You have a learner who is deaf or hard of hearing? What’s the challenge?
Training
- Capturing & measuring the student experience
- Communicating successfully with people from different ethnic backgrounds
- Confident vs competent leadership - improve your success
- Designing Training and Assessment Strategies (TAS) - The Five Fundamentals
- Developing a culture of professional development in your RTO
- How Quality Indicator (QI) Surveys can be used to inform RTO practices
- How to use behavioural science to create optimal learning situations
- Informal learning and VET
- Managing training across different generations
- Pedagogy and practice – how to successfully embed pedagogy into your training
- Techniques for clustering units for delivery and assessment
- What are skill sets and how do they work?
- What capabilities do I need to be a great online trainer and facilitator?
- Working with students under 18 – what you need to know!
- You have a learner who is deaf or hard of hearing? What’s the challenge?
Training techniques
- 11 ways to manage difficult behaviours in the training room
- 12 ways to provide better feedback
- Communicating successfully with people from different ethnic backgrounds
- Communication Strategies for Supporting Online Courses
- Confidence vs Competence: Which is more useful when it comes to success
- Creating more powerful slide presentations
- Curious cats and other great learning ideas for fostering student engagement
- Dealing with and motivating trainers and assessors to be their best
- Designing Training and Assessment Strategies
- Effective training techniques –how to use CORE
- Engaging training – Debriefing for maximum impact
- Engaging training - Designing activities
- Engaging training - How to get people onside…FAST!
- Engaging training – Reduce PPT and increase engagement
- Engaging training - Structuring your content
- Engaging writing strategies
- Ensuring VET international students meet their online training requirements
- Essential interpersonal skills for trainers
- Exploring the new ELICOS Standards – what do they mean, how should they be interpreted?
- Great learning ideas for fostering student engagement
- Helping newly arrived international students integrate into the English language classroom
- How to create a soundtrack for learning
- How to create resources that help the learning stick
- How to use behavioural science to create optimal learning situations
- Keeping students in the loop: Communication strategies for supporting online courses
- Managing training across different generations
- Meeting international student needs
- Nine ways to attract and maintain the attention of your audience
- Online tools – simple and easy tools that can be used to enhance teaching in the classroom
- Pedagogy and practice – how to successfully embed pedagogy into your training
- Seven ways to get your audience back on time
- Strategies to support complex learners and when working in complex training environments
- Training games to support learning transfer
- Using the ACSF to Support Low Literacy Learners
- What capabilities do I need to be a great online trainer and facilitator?
Validation
- Assessment tool validation – one small step in validation
- Validation – the requirements and how to effectively implement
- Validating training and assessment with industry
- Validation – using online tools to support the validation process
- Validation of assessment – much more than the tools alone
Contact the PD team on 03 9412 59200 or pd@acpet.edu.au for all further inquiries
ACPET PD Team