Course Title: Participate in development and follow a personal competency development plan
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term1 2012
Course Code: BUSM6211C
Course Title: Participate in development and follow a personal competency development plan
School: 130T Vocational Engineering
Campus: City Campus
Program: C6083 - Advanced Diploma of Electronics and Communications Engineering
Course Contact: William Lau
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254703
Course Contact Email: william.lau@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Marko Dumovic
+61 3 9925 4712
Ted Bown
Nominal Hours: 20
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
None
Course Description
This unit covers the application of skills and knowledge in
taking responsibility for ones own competency development.
It encompasses understanding the structure of a competency
development plan, participating the development of a personal
competency development plan, understanding responsibilities
and obligation under competency development plan, following
activities for developing competency, self-monitoring
competency development and meeting trainee obligations for
periodic reporting of competency development activities.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
UEENEEE038B Participate in development and follow a personal competency development plan |
Element: |
1. Participate in the development of a personal competency |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 The nature of competency-based training is sought from discussions with appropriate persons and understood. |
Element: |
2. Follow a personal competency development plan. |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 All aspects of the competency development plan are put into practice and followed diligently. |
Learning Outcomes
Details of Learning Activities
Learning and simulated work activities to demonstrate participation in development, and ability to follow a personal competency development plan.
This will include:
• Classroom group discussions to analyse a specified competency and underpinning knowledge
• Consultations with a teacher to identify gaps in one’s skills and knowledge in the specified area
• Self-initiated development of a draft competency development plan
• Peer review of the draft plan
• Maintaining training diary to document training activities and achievements
• Practical demonstrations of achieved competency
Industrial Placement
This unit involves an work integrated learning activites using procedures, information and resources typical of a workplace.
This includes:
• OHS policy and work procedures and instructions.
• Suitable work environment, facilities, equipment and materials to undertake actual work as prescribed in this unit.
Industrial Placement:
Students in the final stage of Advanced Diploma in Electrical are encouraged to undertake an industrial practice workplacement activity, which requires student to undertake tasks within electrical, electronic or computers sisytems domain within industry.
Task may involve activities linked to auto cad, software packages, project management, electrical or electronics troubleshooting, maintenance, evaluation and alnalisys, instrumentation and process control programming and, assistance in tender submissions and evaluations etc.
Students participate in development and follow a personal competency development plan as described in includes:
A Seeking and understanding the responsibilities under a competency development plan.
B Seeking and understanding how to achieve the individual competencies in the plan.
C Following all aspects of the plan diligently.
D Pursuing opportunities to develop competency.
E Self-monitoring competency development.
F Periodically reporting competency development activities.
F Dealing with unplanned events by drawing on essential knowledge and skills to provide appropriate
solutions incorporated in a holistic assessment with the above listed items.
Teaching Schedule
This unit will be delivered in conjuction with a specialised unit of competency, for which a personal development plan will be developed.
Week Topic Assessment task
1 Introduction; Industrial Experience, OH&S, Video “Powerful Resumes”
2 Analysis of underpinning skills and knowledge; Work experience report writing.
Video: Finding work experience
3 Development of the draft of competency development plan, Video : Powerful Resumes
4 Resume Development , Video: Presentation is Vital , Video: Interview Performance
5 Group discussions, Video: Job Application; Looking Good on Paper
Video: Common Mistakes Jobseekers Make Employment Agencies Edition
(RMIT library AV 650. 14 C734)
6 Development of job cover letter
Videos: Handling Difficult People (AV 658.45 H236)
The Know all; Aggressive person; Joker; Complainer; Dodger
Video: The Nature of Workplace Communication
What is communication; Barriers; effective communication AV 650.13 N285
7 Conflict Management AV650.13C748
8 Developing personal competency development plan Resume 20%
9 Video: Engineering Trades: Electrical/ Airconditionning
10 Skills required for effective Project Manager
Video: “Successful Project Management-Lesson 2 –The Project Manager”
11-12 Developing personal competency development plan
13- 15 Following personal competency development plan, Work Integrated learning Cover letter 20%
17- 22 Group discussions. Plan review and proposed adjustments
23-26 Following personal competency development plan Accumulative assessment
27 Maintaining training diary, Work Integrated learning
28- 32 Work Integrated learning
33 Training report/Diary
34 Final assessment if the specified competency. Training report/Diary
35 Work Integrated learning and personal plan report Report 40%
36 Feedback on assessment
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Learning materials and examples will be available on the course Blackboard and on the S/ drive C6085/C6112 folder.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment in this unit will include
• Written assessment – personal competency development plan
• Accumulative assessment which includes participation in class activities and maintaining training diary
• Practical demonstrations of competency in the associated specialised unit
Assessment Tasks
Personal Plan (40%)
Resume and cover letter ( 40%)
Class participation and performance (20%)
This unit shall be demonstrated in relation to participating in development and follow a personal competency development plan in an electrotechnology discipline with the following attributes:
• responsibility for ones own competency development in developing and applying skills and knowledge
• structure of a competency development plan
• development of a personal competency development plan participation
• responsibilities and obligation under the competency development plan
• activities for developing competency followed
• competency development self-monitoring
• trainee obligations met
• periodic reporting of competency development activities met
For optimisation of training and assessment effort, competence development in this unit may be assessed concurrently with other
units in a qualification.
Assessment Matrix
Competency number | Competency Name | Written Assessment | Class Exercises | WIL |
BUSM6211C | Participate in development and follow a personal competency development plan | X | X | X |
Other Information
This unit shall be demonstrated in relation to participating in development and follow a
personal competency development plan in an electrotechnology discipline with the following
attributes:
• responsibility for ones own competency development in developing and applying skills and knowledge
• structure of a competency development plan
• development of a personal competency development plan
participation
• responsibilities and obligation under the competency development plan
• activities for developing competency followed
• competency development self-monitoring
• trainee obligations met
• periodic reporting of competency development activities met
• This competency BUSM6211C is delivered together with EMPL5619C in the same cluster "Industrial Practice (Work Integrated Learning)".
This competency contains 10 student directed hours in addition to another 10 scheduled teaching hours. Student directed hours involve research on work experience opportunities, report and assignment writing.
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