Sustaining the Spark NSW TAFE

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Sustaining the Spark NSW TAFE August
20076 Reframing the Future Transforms Practice
Suzy McKenna, National Project Director Cheryl
Bald, Senior Project Officer
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What is Reframing the Future?

• Reframing the Future is a major workforce
  development initiative of the Australian and
  State and Territory Governments.
• It assists in building the capacity of the
  Australian VET sector to support the
  implementation of the national training system
  and the aims of COAG and its national reform
  agenda.

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Reframing the Future Projects

• Around 6000 participants per year
• Since 1997 over 60,000 participants and
  2,000 projects
• Funding distributed to date approx 25m
• with organisations contributing over 45m
• In NSW, 59 projects in 2006, 53 projects in 2007

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2007 COAG and NQC priorities

• COAG
• The national reform agenda is aimed at further
  raising living standards and improving services
  by lifting the nation's productivity and
  workforce participation over the next decade.
• NQC
• implementing training packages
• implementing AQTF 2007
• improving teaching, learning and assessment
  capability

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Key words

• Transform
• make a change
• Practice
• the habits, customs, techniques, approaches and
  beliefs of VET practitioners
• (based on Wenger et al. 2002)

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New Capabilities in VET

• Implementing the national training system
• requires VET practitioners to undertake a very
  broad range of activities, from researching
  industry skill needs, to negotiating with
  enterprises, adapting Training Packages,
  designing assessment tools and delivering and
  assessing in the workplace.
• is also complex because VET is a demand-driven
  sector, requiring providers to develop and
  sustain productive relationships with industry
  clients and individual learners.
• is more complex again, because the training needs
  of each and every enterprise are potentially
  unique, requiring providers to develop
  exceptional capabilities for customising training
  and assessment.
• requires responsive providers that can
  continually develop improved resources, processes
  and strategies and pursue ever-higher quality
  outcomes from training.
• (Mitchell, McKenna et al 2006)

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Key question

• How can staff development and change management
  support the development of these new
  capabilities?
• Lets look at 2 examples from New South Wales TAFE
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Conversation 1

• Colin Alcock
• Manager, Professional Development and Learning
• TAFE NSW Riverina Institute

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Conversation 2

• Anne Ford
• Assistant Director (Equity and Western Colleges)
• TAFE NSW Western Sydney Institute
• Steve Parkinson
• Project Coordinator
• MECT

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Activity 1 engaging in change

• What are the stand-out messages for you from the
  presentations?
• Decide on 2 from your group and why these two.
• Then, share with other groups.

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• What 2 things can you do, following this forum,
  to transform VET practice and innovate to meet
  industry needs?

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Catalysts

• PEOPLE AS CATALYSTS
• Catalysts are elements or chemicals that can
  cause or accelerate reactions that do not,
  themselves, get used up.
• They are, in this case, people who make things
  happen by their presence and by what they do.
• They dont necessarily do everything themselves
  but they bring out the best in the rest of us.
• They connect the rest of us, and facilitate our
  interactions so that we all can do great things.
• Dr Gregg Vanderheiden, on presenting a Catalyst
  Award
• to Dr Henry Murphy

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Activity 2 engaging in change

• Discuss what you will do, and how, with the
  person next to you.

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Reframing the Future Resources

• Human Capital Enhanced by VET
• How VET enhances Human Capital - 31 examples
• RPL - Done Well in VET
• Professional Judgment in VET
• New Capabilities in VET
• Core Ideas series
• 2007 Publications Resources CD

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Thank you from the team www.reframingthefuture.net