VCE VOCATIONAL MAJOR CERTIFICATE
The Dromana College, VCE Vocational Major is a 2 year Senior Certificate, which provides an applied learning environment for students who do not want to go to university and who do not need an ATAR straight after year 12.
It is for students who would prefer a more applied pathway. The VCE Vocational Major pathway allows students to begin their career while completing their formal Secondary schooling.
The Vocational Major Certificate consists:
School
- Monday, Tuesday and Thursday
Certificate Course (II or III)
- Wednesday*
Structured Workplace Learning (SWL)
- Friday*
The VCE Vocational Major Certificate is a blend of:
- School – Literacy, Numeracy, Work Related Skills, Personal Development Skills, and a VCE elective
- Certificate level qualification (Certificate II or III)
- Structured Workplace Learning
It is designed to start students on their chosen pathway while completing their formal schooling.
In many cases VCE Vocational Major students can start an Australian Apprenticeship or Traineeship (SBAT) completing real world qualifications, gaining real world work skills on the job (and getting paid), while completing their formal secondary education and receiving the VCE Vocational Major Certificate.
Certificate (II or III) component:
There are three Certificate streams: SBAT and VET
SBAT: School Based Apprenticeship or Traineeship
VET: Vocational Education and Training
VCE VM LITERACY UNITS 1/2
In this area of study students will develop their reading and viewing skills and expand their response writing skills. Through the viewing and analysis of a range of texts – print, visual and film- students employ a variety of strategies to develop their understanding of the purpose and key ideas within the written and spoken language. These skills are applied to a series of written pieces connecting personal thoughts and experiences with a range of texts, including biographies, podcast investigations, reflective journals, audio visual reviews and analysis and magazine articles. A focus on applied learning allows for authentic use of texts to achieve classroom learning goals. Students explore how the use of digital technologies can be used to share a message. Students create their own documentaries and learn the film making and storytelling process, analyse how the spread of information can be problematic and look in detail at conspiracy theories and the issues they present. The course is made up of the following units:
Unit 1: Literacy for Personal Use and Understanding, Creating Digital Texts
Unit 2: Understanding Issues and Voices, Responding to Opinions.
The program aims to allow students to take agency for their learning and uses the five pillars of applied learning: Motivation to engage in learning, Applied Learning Practices, Student Agency, Student Centered Flexible Approach and Assessment Practice which Promotes Success. As such, the learning tasks are dynamic and planned with students around their interests, their chosen TAFE courses and work experience and do not necessarily repeat year to year.
VCE VM WORK RELATED SKILLS UNITS 3/4
Unit 3: Industrial relations, workplace environment and practice
This unit focuses on the core elements of a healthy, collaborative, inclusive and harmonious workplace and is separated into three main areas:
• AOS 1 - wellbeing, culture and the employee-employer relationship
• AOS 2 - workplace relations, and
• AOS 3 - communication and collaboration.
Students will learn how to maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and employers, understanding the characteristics of a positive workplace culture and its relationship to business success. They will investigate key areas relating to workplace relations including methods for determining pay and conditions, workplace bullying, workplace discrimination, workplace harassment and dispute resolution. Students will discover how teamwork and communication skills contribute to healthy, collegiate and productive workplaces.
Unit 4: Portfolio preparation and presentation
Portfolios are a practical and tangible way for a person to communicate relevant skills, experiences and capabilities to education providers and future employers. In this unit students will develop and apply their knowledge and skills relating to portfolios, including the features and characteristics of a high-quality physical and/or digital portfolio. The unit culminates in the formal presentation of a completed portfolio in a panel style interview and an evaluation of the end product.
PLEASE NOTE:
Students in Year 11 VCE VM Work Related Skills will be completing Unit 3 & 4 and are required to complete Unit 3 & 4 Personal Development Skills in Year 12 in order to meet the satisfactory requirements of the VCE Vocational major Certificate
VCE VM LITERACY UNITS 3/4
UNIT 3
In this unit students will become familiar with and develop confidence in understanding and accessing texts of an informational, organisational or procedural nature. These texts reflect real-life situations encountered by students and are representative of the sorts of texts students will encounter in a vocational setting or workplace, or for their health and participation in the community. This unit also focuses on texts about an individual’s rights and responsibilities within organisations, workplaces and vocational groups. Students read and respond to a variety of technical content from a vocational, workplace or organisational setting of their choice, demonstrating understanding of how these texts inform and shape the organisations they interact with.
Area of Study 1: Accessing and understanding organisation, informational and procedural texts
Area of Study 2: Creating and responding to organisational, informational and procedural texts
UNIT 4
In this unit students will investigate, analyse and create content for the advocacy of self, a product or a community group of the student’s choice, in a vocational or recreational setting. Students will research the differences between texts used for more formal or traditional types of advocacy, influence or promotion, as well as some of the forms that are increasingly being used in the digital domain for publicity and exposure. Students will also use their knowledge and understanding of language, context and audience to complete an oral presentation that showcases their learning.
Area of Study 1: Understanding and engaging with literacy for advocacy
Area of Study 2: Speaking to advise or to advocate
VCE VM PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT SKILLS UNITS 3/4
Unit 3: Leadership and teamwork
This unit considers the role of interpersonal skills and social awareness in different settings and contexts. Students will examine leadership qualities and the characteristics of effective leaders and how these qualities can be applied to the achievement of goals within personal and community contexts. They will explore key components of effective teamwork and reflect on how to lead and contribute within a team context through a collaborative problem-solving activity. Students will evaluate individual contribution as well as the overall effectiveness of the team.
AOS 1: Social awareness and interpersonal skills
AOS 2: Effective leadership
AOS 3: Effective teamwork
Unit 4: Community project
This unit focuses on student participation in an extended project relating to a community issue. Students will identify environmental, cultural, economic and social issues affecting the community and select one for an extended community project. They will look at past approaches to the selected issue in Australia and elsewhere, consider how they will research information, and formulate an objective to achieve. Students will reflect on how community awareness of a selected issue can be improved. Students will engage in a process of planning, implementing and evaluating a response to a selected community issue. They will conduct research, analyse findings and make decisions on how to present work. Students will consider the key elements (such as emotional intelligence and effective team practices) and considerations (such as safety and ethics) when implementing a community project. Students will present project to an appropriate audience of peers or community members and evaluate the effectiveness of chosen response to the issue.
AOS 1: Planning a community project
AOS 2: Implementing a community project
AOS 3: Evaluating a community project