Maintaining and
Demonstrating Currency
Gerard Kell
Workforce Development Unit
Drivers for Maintaining and
Demonstrating Currency
• Standards for NVR Registered Training
Organisations
• TAFE NSW Minimum entry requirements
• DEC and TAFE NSW Policy and Procedure
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Why is currency important?
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Competent staff
Learning more relevant to workplace
Employees more productive and engaged
Improved confidence – trainers, students, employer
Improved quality teaching and assessment practices
Employer engagement through industry consultation
Improved reputation of the Institute
Continuous compliance improvement
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TAFE Teachers must have
• Vocational qualification
• Industry experience
• Trainer and assessor qualification
• Currency
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Vocational competency
• Vocational competency is defined as broad industry knowledge
and experience, usually combined with a relevant industry
qualification.
• Vocational competency must be considered on an industry-byindustry basis and with reference to the guidance provided in
the Assessment Guidelines of the relevant Training Package.
• Vocational currency, industry currency, trainer and assessor
currency are an integral component of vocational competency.
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Vocational currency
• teachers should hold an up to date, relevant AQF level
qualification and or have the relevant vocational competencies
at least to the level being delivered or assessed
• be familiar with the content of their vocational area and know
their subject
• have relevant current experience and an understanding of
industry related skills and work practices
• have the pedagogical skills required to teach their students
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Industry currency
• keeping up to date with industry specific skills
relevant to today’s workplaces or a discipline area
• effective industry consultation
• improving professional knowledge, capabilities
and practice
• current relevant industry qualification
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Trainer and assessor currency
• the necessary training and assessment competencies
(TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
as from 1 July 2013)
• VET professional knowledge and skills
• VET operating environment
• Training and assessment policies and practices
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Tips for currency
Attend /organise sessions
with guest speakers from
industry for students
Attend professional
development industry
speakers
Attend conference
Meetings with industry
representatives
Return to industry
Assessment validation
Voluntary work
Meetings with clients
Visiting apprentices or
trainees in the workplace
Participation in networks
or communities of practice
Mentoring or coaching by
staff member with current
industry expertise
Qualifications completed
Membership of industry
association
Work-based Delivery and or
Assessment
Industry excursions with
students
Attending trade fairs
Consulting work related to
industry skills councils
Private employment outside
TAFE NSW
Visiting other educational
institutions
Reading journals
/subscriptions/RSS feeds
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Currency strategies
• Study Assistance Scheme
• Return to Industry
• Right to Private Practice (Private and Secondary
employment)
• Staff Development: General and customised capability
development workshops,
• Faculty endorsed individual and or Section Up-Skilling
program (using the ‘DTSC’ course fee exemption code)
• New Teacher Education Program
• Head Teacher program
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Demonstrating Currency Tools
• Personalised portfolio (electronic or hard copy)
• Individual Learning Plans
• Professional Growth Options
• Developing Training and Assessment Strategies
- Teacher Qualifications Matrix ; Unit of Competence
Matrix ; Currency Checklist ; Industry Consultation
Record and Industry Consultation Summary
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Currency maintenance support
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Faculty Director
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Head Teacher
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Colleagues and networks
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Industry partners
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Strategic Planning & Performance Unit
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Workforce Development Unit
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