Linda Leggott

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Spring into Action at Nirimba TAFE
Linda Leggott Tracey Folk Bernadette McKay Debbie
Hind Tamara Trankels
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What is Project Based Learning?

• Project based learning is an innovative way of
  implementing training package material to
  provide learners with work based training.
• It involves
• Integrating competencies to deliver and assess
  as part of an industry based project.
• Developing assessment tools to reliably and
  validly assess learners using a combination of
  written and practical assessment strategies.

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Contemporary Theories in Work-Based Learning

• Kolb's theory of experiential learning (1984)
• Adult experiential learning is represented in the
  six propositions
• Learning is best conceived as a process not in
  terms of outcomes
• Learning is a continuous process grounded in
  experience.
• The process of learning requires the resolution
  of conflicts between dialectically opposed modes
  of adaptations to the world .
• Learning is a holistic process of adaptation to
  the world.
• Learning involves transactions between the person
  and the environment.
• Learning is the creation of knowledge (Kolb
  1984,pp 25-38).
• Ref www.avetra.org.au/abstracts-papers-2001/Henry
  -Mitchell-Young

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"Getting the Right Balance" Model of Practice

• Our model is reflective of the balance between
• Theory and Practice
• Written and Practical Assessment
• Adult Learning Styles

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Our Training Model
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Challenges
What do you think the challenges might be to
trainers within the project learning environment