Course Title: Work with time, money and directions in simple everyday situations

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term2 2012

Course Code: GEDU5942

Course Title: Work with time, money and directions in simple everyday situations

School: 365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng

Campus: City Campus

Program: C1071 - Certificate I in Work Education

Course Contact : Mandy Morrison

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254065

Course Contact Email:mandy.morrison@rmit.edu.au

Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 60

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

Nil

Course Description

The focus of this unit is on using and making decisions about time
and money, and using simple everyday language of location to give
and follow informal oral directions.

National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:	VBQU127 Work with time, money and directions in simple everyday situations
Element:	1 Work with money in simple, everyday situations
Performance Criteria:	1.1 Money notation and symbols, and language of money are used and interpreted 1.2 Numbers related to money in everyday documents or in familiar situations are read, written, interpreted and compared 1.3 Simple, onestep calculations with money are performed 1.4 The language of simple fractions and percentages applied to money is interpreted
Element:	2 Work with time in simple, everyday situations
Performance Criteria:	2.1 The language of time is used orally 2.2 Numbers related to time in everyday documents or in familiar situations are read, written, interpreted and compared 2.3 The language of simple fractions as applied to time is interpreted 2.4 Time measuring devices are read and used
Element:	3 Give and follow simple oral directions
Performance Criteria:	3.1 Informal language of position is used 3.2 Simple concepts of position and location are identified and used 3.3 Simple oral directions for moving between locations are given and followed 3.4 The relative location of two or more objects is described orally 3.5 Simple diagrams and maps of familiar locations are read and interpreted

Learning Outcomes

In this course you will explore the following topics:

 The knowledge that signs / prints/ symbols represent meaning 

The ability to read and say whole numbers, simple fractions and basic words associated with
money and time

How  to recognise time using either a digital or analogue time piece

recognition and knowledge of the value of coins and notes

· simple addition and subtraction
 

Details of Learning Activities

In - class learning activities will include:

Using internet, ie Google maps etc

use of street directories

board games

group discussions

Teaching Schedule

The teaching schedule is presented in a timetable format. You will be given a timetable for your program.

Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts

References

Other Resources

Overview of Assessment

Assessment in this unit of competency is determined via a combination of assessment strategies which will include:

Self assessment

Oral questions

A project

Assessment Tasks

To demonstrate competency in this course, you will need to complete the following pieces of assessment to a satisfactory standard. You will recieve feedback on all assessment.

 

Assessment task 1 - This task requires you to produce a simple map of how you travel from home to your work placement

Assessment task 2 - Verbal questions and observation in simulated work context

Assessment task 3 - Self Assessment

Assessment Matrix

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