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2018 Qld Schools VET Conference

10 August 2018
Hilton Brisbane

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Program

Friday, 10 August 2018

8.00am - 8.30am
Registration
8.30am - 8.45am
Official Open and Acknowledgement of Country
8.45am - 9.00am
Minister's Address
9.00am - 9.10am
Department of Employment, Small Business and Training
9.10am - 10.00am
Get Ready For The New Work Order
10.00am - 10.25am
Morning Tea
10.25am - 11.15am
VET Initiatives
QTAC Admissions and ATAR Update
Phillip Anthony
RTO Management & Compliance
Department of Employment, Small Business and Training Update - Achieving Quality within the VET Ecosystem
John Emery
Training & Assessing
QCCA Update - Training & Assessment
Mark Maddox
11.20am - 12.10pm
VET Initiatives
Collaboration and Innovation - Leading the Way in Providing VET Pathways
Penny Driessen
RTO Management & Compliance
QCAA Update - RTO Management
Mark Maddox
Training & Assessing
The 123 of Creating Observation Checklists
Kerri Buttery
12.10pm - 12.55pm
Lunch
12.55pm - 2.00pm
VET Initiatives
Engaging Use of Technology in Training
Kerri Buttery & John Price
RTO Management & Compliance
Managing Your School RTO’s Scope of Registration
Melanie Alexandra
Training & Assessing
Developing Compliant Assessment Tools
Fiona Bogaart
2.00pm - 2.20pm
Afternoon Tea
2.20pm - 3.20pm
VET Initiatives
Brand Camp - Transforming the Brand of VET In Your School
Pauline Duncan
RTO Management & Compliance
Change - Old Dogs, New Tricks
John Price
Training & Assessing
Training vs Learning
Melanie Alexandra
3.20pm - 3.30pm
Official Close
3.30pm - 4.30pm
Networking Drinks

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Networking Drinks

Location

Hilton Brisbane

Official Close

Location

Hilton Brisbane

Brand Camp - Transforming the Brand of VET In Your School

Category

VET Initiatives

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Redlands Room

For those who joined our session last year we had some fun looking at:

  • the evidence supporting VET in your school
  • why we need to drive change
  • whom and how do we need to influence
  • we created a stakeholder influence map for influence and
  • a communications map & activity plan for you to engage fully in your school environment

In our session this year, we will build on all this work and look at how the best brands build their profile; how we can apply these lessons to VET in our school and we can continue to advocate, promote, strengthen and support the profile of VET in your school.

Pauline Duncan

Director - Knowledge Box

Pauline is an educator, management consultant, speaker and company director.

A primary trained teacher, Pauline became the Head of Junior School at Wesley College Melbourne, at the age of 25 making her the youngest primary Principal nationally at that time.

Pauline was Senior Manager at KPMG working in Government Advisory Services on social policy and education projects utilising her expertise in policy development, reform, stakeholder engagement, strategic communication and workshop facilitation.

Recently Pauline was the General Manger of Not for Profit organisation, YGAP, looking after risk, governance, and strategy for impact programs with social entrepreneurs and had responsibility for social enterprise restaurant, Feast of Merit.

Knowledge Box is Pauline’s own education advisory company – projects currently include Business Development for School RTOs with VETtrak; supporting innovation agenda in schools through the Plato Project; Fundraising and Philanthropic strategy development for leading NFPs; a variety of mentoring programs; strategic communications and marketing strategy for schools and she is a sought after public speaker.

Pauline is a Non-Executive Director in the education and not-for-profit sectors.

At the heart of all Pauline’s work is the simple, yet powerful driver to “Barrack for Young People”.

Change - Old Dogs, New Tricks

Category

RTO Management & Compliance

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Ballroom C

There’s nothing old about ‘old dogs’ and nothing new about ‘new tricks’, it’s just the way we manage them.

  • Can you remember your first day at work in your current job?
  • Can you remember how ‘excited’ you were about what you were going to do?
  • Are you still as excited about the journey you were facing, or has the ‘romance’ gone out of it for you and your staff?

VET is on an exponential change curve that leaves the Richter Scale in its wake!

This session will explore how we can use some the tools and techniques to engage and re-engage with our colleagues.

It will consider the use of strategies on how to manage such a changing environment and maintain control of the quality system.

It will also consider the value of appreciative enquiry when we are faced with a dynamically changing future and how motivation can be maintained through simple user-friendly systems that increase the intrinsic value of our daily working lives.

John Price

Director, John Price & Associates Pty Ltd

John Price has been an educator and trainer for over 40 years and in that time has worked as a Head of Department at TAFE, mentor, facilitator of national workshops covering delivery and assessment, risk management, auditing, leadership and interpersonal skill development.

John has been a keynote speaker at conventions and conferences, and maintained a grass roots level approach to dealing with people at all levels of the organisation.

He has also assisted over 300 organisations in Australia to achieve quality certification to the range of National Training Standards including: Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations (versions 2012 and 2015); Australian Quality Training Framework standards (AQTF from 2001 – 2010) Australian and International ISO9001 standards (AS/NZS and ISO from 1987 – 2008) and worked with these organisations in establishing continuous improvement systems and strategies.

Training vs Learning

Category

Training & Assessing

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Ballroom A & B

This session will focus on the ‘Amount of Training’ and ‘Volume of Learning’ requirements when delivering vocational education programs to senior secondary students in QLD School RTOs.   These often misunderstood concepts have the added restrictions of an inflexible curriculum school timetable to fit into therefore we shall firstly look into the full definition of the terms and explore ways to effectively implement these when developing the training and assessment practices for your programs.

Melanie Alexandra

Resource Developer and Consultant - Velg Training

Melanie has held a variety of roles within the Academic and Vocational Education and Training (VET) sectors over the past 25 years including trainer and assessor, Head of Faculty, Program Manager, RTO Manager, and Head of Quality Assurance and has won awards for practice excellence in teaching and learning, and outstanding leadership.

In recent years, Melanie worked as a Senior Lead Auditor, conducting regulatory audits and registrations against the current VET Quality Framework and Standards for RTOs 2015, and has authored and built a number of online professional development programs to support VET practitioners nationally.

Today Melanie works as an Education Services Advisor of Vocational Education, Skills and Training for Queensland schools and provides consulting support services to RTOs as a VET Consultant in her own right.

Afternoon Tea

Location

Hilton Brisbane

Engaging Use of Technology in Training

Category

VET Initiatives

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Redlands Room

Face-to-face, blended delivery, flipped classroom, online learning – all of these delivery methods have one thing in common: the need to engage the learner. The use of online tools to engage learners is booming. Many learners want to connect online as part of their learning journey, others just enjoy using technology. As trainers, where do we begin? How do we incorporate the use of technology in our training across a range of delivery methods?

Key topics covered in this session include:

  • A brief overview of learning theories and the relationship to the use of online tools
  • Examples of online tools that can be used in a range of situations
  • Guide to evaluating online tools for use with your learners.

Watch this space!

Kerri Buttery & John Price

John has been an educator and trainer for over 40 years and in that time has worked as a Head of Department at TAFE, mentor, facilitator of national workshops covering delivery and assessment, risk management, auditing, leadership and interpersonal skill development.

John has been a keynote speaker at conventions and conferences, and maintained a grass roots level approach to dealing with people at all levels of the organisation.

He has also assisted over 300 organisations in Australia to achieve quality certification to the range of National Training Standards including: Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations (versions 2012 and 2015); Australian Quality Training Framework standards (AQTF from 2001 – 2010) Australian and International ISO9001 standards (AS/NZS and ISO from 1987 – 2008) and worked with these organisations in establishing continuous improvement systems and strategies.

Kerri Buttery has worked in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector for almost two decades as a Trainer/Assessor, RTO Manager and as a Senior Lead Auditor. Kerri has worked as a consultant for a range of organisations in the areas of establishing Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), conducting internal audits, consulting on VQF compliance, developing accredited courses, convening state and national conferences, developing training and assessment materials, conducting professional development workshops and delivering Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. She has authored several textbooks and has experience lecturing and tutoring at university. Kerri is currently employed by Velg Training as the Director of Content & Strategy.

Managing Your School RTO’s Scope of Registration

Category

RTO Management & Compliance

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Ballroom C

This session will look at the common types of course currently being offered to senior secondary students in Queensland Schools and how to effectively schedule these to fit with an inflexible school curriculum timetable.  The focus will be on the intended goals of the student once they leave school and how to best enable their learning requirements and fit these within the resource parameters you have available within your school RTO.

Melanie Alexandra

Resource Developer and Consultant - Velg Training

Melanie has held a variety of roles within the Academic and Vocational Education and Training (VET) sectors over the past 25 years including trainer and assessor, Head of Faculty, Program Manager, RTO Manager, and Head of Quality Assurance and has won awards for practice excellence in teaching and learning, and outstanding leadership.

In recent years, Melanie worked as a Senior Lead Auditor, conducting regulatory audits and registrations against the current VET Quality Framework and Standards for RTOs 2015, and has authored and built a number of online professional development programs to support VET practitioners nationally.

Today Melanie works as an Education Services Advisor of Vocational Education, Skills and Training for Queensland schools and provides consulting support services to RTOs as a VET Consultant in her own right.

Developing Compliant Assessment Tools

Category

Training & Assessing

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Ballroom A & B

This session will start with looking at the components of a GOOD assessment tool, then get down to the nitty gritty of creating your own observation tool that addresses the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence in a workshop-type situation. The aim is to create compliant assessment tools that will pass validation. All templates used in the session will be available to participants. Be prepared to learn, engage and share with others in a fun environment.

Fiona Bogaart

Owner - ViSE

Fiona Bogaart has over 10 years’ experience in the VET sector. Since 2010, Fiona has been a Qld Schools consultant supporting schools through VET services including internal audits, reviews, quality products and professional development, and is also on retainer for many schools on the Sunshine Coast. In 2014, Fiona became a Qld Schools consultant for Velg Training. From 2007-2012 Fiona was an RTO manager in Qld Schools and from 2011-2014 she was a member of the Senior Phase Network as part of Sustainable Partnerships Australia, an organisation that provides Professional Development opportunities to VET teachers. Fiona has qualifications in TAE50111, TAE50211, TAE40110 and BSB51607.

Lunch

Location

Hilton Brisbane

Collaboration and Innovation - Leading the Way in Providing VET Pathways

Category

VET Initiatives

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Redlands Room

Guilford Young College is a Co-educational Senior Secondary College committed to the provision of a broad curriculum delivering both academic and VET courses of the highest calibre. The creation of the Southern Tasmanian Catholic College Trade Training Centre (STCCTTC) provided an opportunity to extend VET pathways to hundreds of secondary school students across southern Tasmania. The Trade Training Centre now includes 8 colleges working together in southern Tasmania providing VET in school.

The STCCTTC model was recognised as one of the best in Australia at the 2017 training awards winning the School Pathways to VET award.

This presentation will share the main features of our program and highlight our unique pathway model including:

  • Industry trainers, facilities, relationships and validation
  • Timetable integration, students can choose both VET and academic subjects
  • Real pathways, years 9 to 12 and beyond
  • Work placements with compulsory assessments
  • Student progress and feedback
  • Assessment tool development

Penny Driessen

Director - Southern Tasmanian Catholic Colleges Trade Training Centre

Penny Driessen is the Director of the Southern Tasmanian Catholic Colleges Trade Training Centre. In this role she coordinates the VET in Schools provision for all of the Catholic colleges in southern Tasmania. Penny has worked in Vocational Education and Training for the past 25 years. Initially she worked in policy development in the Tasmanian government followed by 15 years as Executive Officer of Industry Training Boards. Later Penny was the Executive Officer for Hobart Education Business and Training Partnership (HEBTP) which coordinated VET in Schools activity across all three education sectors in southern Tasmania. As a consultant to the Tasmanian Government, Penny has conducted several evaluations of VET in Schools.

QCAA Update - RTO Management

Category

RTO Management & Compliance

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Ballroom C

In this presentation Mark will provide RTO Managers with a brief update about the QCE for the new system and VET and also raise some national directives which highlight some new research around the characteristics of 'Quality VET' and what some national reports are telling us this is.

  • QCAA update:  QCE new system
  • Why do VET?
  • Current research: What is Quality? Skills IQ and 21st century skilled workforce
  • Industry trends: What industry is looking for in employees?

Mark Maddox

Manager of the Vocational Education and Training unit - QCAA

Mark has been working in the education industry since 1989 in various roles including high school teacher, head of department, Review and Executive Officer for the Arts. He is currently the Manager of the Vocational Education and Training unit for the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA). He has an in-depth knowledge of current curriculum development in Creative Arts and VET.

In his current role, Mark undertakes the overall management of the functions of the QCAA VET Unit and compliance with state and national VET legislation and implementation of the delegation from the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) as a registering body.

The 123 of Creating Observation Checklists

Category

Training & Assessing

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Ballroom A & B

Units of competency describe both the skills and knowledge (amongst other aspects) that students must demonstrate in order to be deemed competent.

Evidence of these judgments needs to be retained for a period of time, but how do we keep evidence of a student's performance of skills for the cake they baked months ago? One solution is to ensure the RTO uses comprehensive observation checklists to keep a record of the performance of skills. This session will break the process down of developing quality observation checklists for evidence gathering.

Key topics covered in this session include:

  • Purpose of an observation checklist
  • What an observation checklist is not
  • Analysing the task
  • Defining observable behaviours
  • Mapping to the unit of competency

Kerri Buttery

Director of Content & Strategy, Velg Training

Digital Literacy Licence (DLL) is the brainchild of Kerri Buttery, who founded the company in 2021 after a rewarding, decades-long career in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector.

Kerri's first foray into education saw her delivering VET in Schools (VETiS) programs in Queensland as a qualified secondary school teacher. This evolved into working as an auditor in the VET sector, then as a consultant assisting RTOs in maintaining compliance and delivering quality eLearning solutions

Kerri is also the founder of VETNexus. An Organisation that works alongside education providers to strengthen the relationship between compliance, technology and innovation.

  

QTAC Admissions and ATAR Update

Category

VET Initiatives

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Redlands Room

This session is designed to ensure that attendees are aware of what’s new for this year (in regards to 2019 admissions). It will also provide an update on ATAR!

Phillip Anthony

Chief Technical Officer - QTAC

QTAC is the predominant service provider for prospective university and TAFE applicants in Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Phillip has over two decades as Manager of Assessment Services, and has recently been appointed as the Chief Technical Officer at QTAC. In this role he is responsible for oversight of QTAC’s technical capability, including a special focus on ensuring record veracity, designing education comparability, and complex problem solving on behalf of institutions.

Phillip has led QTAC’s response to significant changes which have occurred in education in Queensland, including the replacement of the Tertiary Entrance Score with the Overall Position, and now the replacement of the Overall Position with the ATAR.

Phillip holds a Masters degree in International Relations and Asian Politics from The University of Queensland, and is a member of the Association for Tertiary Education Management (ATEM).

Department of Employment, Small Business and Training Update - Achieving Quality within the VET Ecosystem

Category

RTO Management & Compliance

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Ballroom C

Queensland’s strong and vibrant vocational education and training (VET) ecosystem achieves quality outcomes for our people and economy every day.

Learn about subsidies, incentives and other training opportunities funded by the Queensland Government, including school-based apprenticeships and traineeships, to skill Queenslanders and grow workforces in a way that supports the state’s employment, skills and economic priorities.

Gain more understanding about the Queensland VET Quality Framework — introduced in 2017 to promote quality from Queensland’s investment in VET. Hear about the integrated measures that work to build confidence in the VET system and skilling strategies, including program design, supplier (RTO) entry requirements, information and support, market performance and oversight, and compliance.

Get some insights into new directions, including VET in Schools funding, positive promotion of VET pathways, consumer engagement and a new $1 million fund to encourage apprenticeships.

John Emery

Director, Training Queensland Customer Centre - Department of Employment, Small Business and Training

Director, Training Queensland Customer Centre - Department of Employment, Small Business and Training

John Emery is the Director of the Training Queensland Customer Centre — the department’s multi-channel contact and information service for Queenslanders and stakeholders in the training and skills arena.

John has held various executive roles within the department across a broad range of policy, regulatory and operational areas, with a particular focus on key areas of change in the Queensland vocational education and training (VET) landscape, including consumer experience, quality delivery and public investment priorities.

John holds several postgraduate qualifications from the University of Queensland in economics and organisational psychology, and has expertise in change management.

At the personal level, John has three sons at high school. All are at critical decision-making points in their educational journeys, considering academic and vocational pathways, giving John personal insight into a young person’s journey as they prepare for life after school.

QCCA Update - Training & Assessment

Category

Training & Assessing

Location

Hilton Brisbane - Ballroom A & B

This session is presented by QCAA as an update on current practices. The presentation will take participants through:

  • Just a few of the ways we are reducing red tape and making life easier for RTO managers
  • Reasons why VET is being offered so extensively by Queensland School RTOs under QCAA’s delegation from ASQA
  • The quickest and simplest summary on how to develop competency based assessment tools you have ever heard
  • Some key features of the new student centred audit model

Mark Maddox

Manager of the Vocational Education and Training unit - QCAA

Mark has been working in the education industry since 1989 in various roles including high school teacher, head of department, Review and Executive Officer for the Arts. He is currently the Manager of the Vocational Education and Training unit for the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA). He has an in-depth knowledge of current curriculum development in Creative Arts and VET.

In his current role, Mark undertakes the overall management of the functions of the QCAA VET Unit and compliance with state and national VET legislation and implementation of the delegation from the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) as a registering body.

Morning Tea

Location

Hilton Brisbane

Get Ready For The New Work Order

Location

Hilton Brisbane

The pace of change has never been so great nor as disruptive as it is today. Today's young people will need to innovate in business, communities, government and the global realm to solve emerging challenges and create a fairer society. To do all this they will need to be able to navigate the new work order - where whole career progressions are being altered, new professions are coming into existence and traditional jobs are being swallowed by automation. So how do we prepare our young people for this future?

Jan Owen AM - CEO, Foundation for Young Australians

CEO, Foundation for Young Australians

Jan is a highly regarded social entrepreneur, innovator, influencer and author who has spent the past 25 years growing Australia's youth, social enterprise and innovation sectors.

In 2012 she was named Australia's inaugural Australian Financial Review and Westpac Woman of Influence; in 2014 she received the Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of Sydney; and was awarded membership to the Order of Australia in 2000. She is the author of Every Childhood Lasts a Lifetime (1996) and The Future Chasers (2014).

Jan is the CEO of the Foundation for Young Australians and YLab, the global youth futures lab. Her lifelong mission is to unleash the potential of young people to lead positive change in the world.

Department of Employment, Small Business and Training

Location

Hilton Brisbane

Suzanne Wauchope

Since commencing as Deputy Director-General in August 2015, Suzanne Wauchope has provided strategic leadership for the training and skills area of the department, including working to identify investment priorities and increasing the quality of training in Queensland.

Suzanne also represents Queensland on the Skills Senior Official Network and more recently has been appointed as a Director of the National Centre for Vocational Education Research.

Suzanne is a Chartered Accountant and has gained experience in a broad range of areas during approximately 23 years in professional services.  During that time Suzanne worked with both private and public sector clients to design and enhance governance, business process, systems, performance and reporting.  Suzanne joined the Department of Education and Training in 2015, initially as the Head of Internal Audit, before being appointed as the Deputy Director-General, Training and Skills in late 2015.

The Training and Skills Division has now transitioned to a new agency, the Department of Employment, Small Business and Training.

Minister's Address

Location

Hilton Brisbane

The Honourable Karen Andrews, Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills

Elected in 2010, re-elected in 2013 and 2016 to represent the southern Gold Coast electorate of McPherson in the House of Representatives, Karen is a member of the Liberal National Party.

Karen is passionate about encouraging the study of maths and science in schools and promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics professions. As a member of the Women in Engineering Alumni Network at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), she promotes study in these crucial fields.

In 2016, The Hon. Karen Andrews MP was appointed as the Assistant Minister for Vocational Education and Skills.
Karen now has a great opportunity to work closely with the Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham to create positive outcomes for Australians undertaking vocational education.

Official Open and Acknowledgement of Country

Location

Hilton Brisbane

Registration

Location

Hilton Brisbane