See also: Event management

 

General resources:

 

VCAL Resource Toolkit - Holmesglen Vocational College Holmesglen Training and Development at HIT developed this VCAL Resource Toolkit, funded by the Office of Training and Further Education. The Resource Toolkit outlines how post-compulsory aged students will have the opportunity to experience industry standard programs in a TAFE environment while gaining the Intermediate or Senior VCAL.

 

Go Girls - a fully integrated VCAL program designed for year 11 students at Berrick Secondary College.  It is designed to develop the students understanding of the world around them and explore the various pathway options available to them.  Projects include: Me, Myself and I; Safe at Work; Melbourne on Offer; Phenomenal Women; ANZAC; Camp Shack; What's good for you?; Pay it forward; Holocaust; Where am I going?

 

Swap Shop - Gateway LLEN VCAL resources for Literacy & Numeracy, Work related skills, Industry specific skills and Personal development also useful websites, contacts, etc.

 

VCAL camp - Gateway LLEN resources.

 

VicRoads Road Safety Units

VicRoads has developed this set of VCAL Road Safety Units for teachers and practitioners delivering the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) in schools and other educational settings. The resource focuses on young driver safety issues and aims to assist young people to enter the road system as safe and responsible drivers.  The units have been designed and developed to integrate learning outcomes in Literacy, Numeracy and Personal Development Skills across all levels of VCAL – Foundation, Intermediate and Senior.

 

Consumer Affairs Victoria has developed curriculum resources that are aligned to the Victorian Essential Learning Standards (VELS) and the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL) Literacy and Numeracy strands. The materials focus on life skills that enable young people to become smart consumers.

 

The Real Game series - a career and life skills education program. The implementation of The Real Game series in Australia is a Commonwealth Government initiative, managed by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training.

 

Human Rights, Amnesty International - these units have been developed by a team of postgraduate students at Deakin University and are in draft form.  Completed units will soon be available on the Amnesty International website at http://action.amnesty.org.au/hre/

 

Andrew Fuller Workshop - programs for the promotion of mental health in schools, substance abuse prevention, and the reduction of violence and bullying, suicide prevention programs and for assisting homeless young people. Workshop topics include: creating resilient learners, work smarter not harder: personal resilience for teachers, survival skills for teachers.

SAALT resources for purchase: http://www.saalt.com.au/resources.htm

 

WebQuests and Thinking Internet activities developed by Richard Armitage and Anne-Marie Parry, Springvale Secondary College.   Activities include: Work and Leisure; World of Work/VCE and beyond; Road trip; Which home loan?; and Savings.  Also includes WebQuests on Business/Political/Legal issues.

 

Pathways Pak

Section 1 Planning my Pathway (pdf)

Section 2: Successful Job Hunting (pdf)

Section 3: Training and Qualifications (pdf)

 

 

Numeracy resources:

 

Adult Numeracy website at the CAE: http://www.saalt.com.au/numeracy

  • Car Costs II (Dave Tout)
  • Maths works (Dave Tout and Gary Motteram, ACER Press) - strategies for teaching maths and numeracy in real life contexts.

 

Measuring up (Dave Tout & Beth Marr) - teaches basic numeracy skills for measurement including fractions, decimals, reading scales and metric units available from Protea Textware: http://www.proteatextware.com.au/

 

Essi money - an online e-learning game developed by the Financial Basics Foundation that allows participants to achieve an understanding of the basic concepts surrounding financial management, in the areas of Earning (Employment, Centrelink, Interest and return on investments, entrepreneur), Saving (bank accounts, cash, goals), Spending (living expenses, fuel, food, entertainment, rent, mobile phones, credit and credit cards, buying a car, insurance), and Investing (scams, bank accounts, goals, risk vs yeild, shares, credit and borrowing).

 

The game simulates financial transactions over a 26 week period, enabling students to achieve an understanding of how decisions made throughout a time period can have both positive and negative impacts on their financial situation. Students will experience some of the day-today issues that most people must cope with in their financial life.  Registering and playing ESSI Money is free for schools and not-for-profit organisations.

 

 

Literacy resources:

 

Page turners - easy-to-read stories for beginning adult readers. Produced by teachers to meet the needs of their students.

 

 

Addressing the VCAL outcomes:

 

 

Bungalow Design - This resource shows how I addressed the Literacy, Numeracy and Oracy in VCAL Senior, Dean Banfield, Deakin University.

EEJ735 VCAL Bungalow Design Literary & Numeracy Folio (00 Final Book).pdf 

 

 


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