Certificate
Designed for students aged 15 and 24 who have left mainstream schooling to follow their chosen pathway, this youth program helps develop English, maths and general skills in preparation for senior secondary courses, exploring workforce opportunities and further education and training options.
A Certificate II in General Education for Adults will help you work on the areas you need a bit of extra help in, including literacy, basic maths and general education skills.
This course focuses on developing your literacy skills as you create and engage with a range of familiar and unfamiliar text types. You'll learn to interpret and create a range of paper-based and web-based text types as you complete projects that are specifically tailored to your needs.
Full time or part time employment into a chosen field (Not specific)
Volunteering
VCE - Vocational Major
Further education at Certificate II or III levels
Employment
Volunteering / Community work
Graduates at this level will have basic factual, technical and procedural knowledge of a defined area of work and learning through knowledge of:
* Processes for developing an individual learning plan
* Features and components of an individual learning plan
* Basic project methodology to complete a project in an activity in a selected context and/or around a specific content area
* Techniques used by writers to convey meaning and achieve purpose
* Structure and conventions of a range of familiar and unfamiliar text types
* Signs / prints/ symbols and their representation in mathematical texts and materials.
Graduates at this level will have cognitive skills to access, record and act on a defined range of information from a range of sources and cognitive and communication skills to apply and communicate known solutions to a limited range of predictable problems to:
* Develop a learning plan in relation to identified goals, assemble a portfolio, and evaluate progress in relation to goals
* Discuss aspects of own learning plan such as purpose and preferred learning styles to support development of the plan
* Gather and analyse information from a variety of sources to complete a project
* Identify and address issues and barriers which affect project goals
* Select and apply reading strategies to interpret and analyse a range of familiar and unfamiliar texts
* Discuss features and content of texts to establish relevance and effectiveness
* Access and navigate web based digital text to locate information
* Gather and order information required to create a range of familiar and unfamiliar complex written and digital texts
* Investigate, interpret and apply knowledge of everyday and formal mathematics in a range of contexts.
Are there specified requirements for entry into the course/qualification?: No
Full time or part time employment into a chosen field (Not specific)
Volunteering