Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships combine practical work with structured training to provide a nationally recognised qualification and experience. Participants earn while they learn. Apprenticeships are also referred to as Australian Apprenticeships.

http://www.newapprenticeships.gov.au/about/

Action plan

An action plan is a plan for putting goals into action and is based on a ‘plan-do-review’ cycle. An action plan is often referred to as a road map: a guide to get you from where you are to where you want to go.

http://www.time-management-guide.com/plan.html

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Career

The definition of career has changed.  The term ‘career’ no longer refers to a particular pathway through work or to an occupational title. A career is the sequence and variety of work roles (paid and unpaid), which one undertakes throughout a lifetime. More broadly, ‘career’ includes life roles, leisure activities, learning and work.

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/career_development/policy_issues_reviews/key_issues/australian_blueprint_for_career_dev/

Career more than just a job

http://www.myfuture.edu.au/Events/Feature%20Articles/The%20booklet%20Career%20more%20than%20just%20a%20job.aspx

Managing life, learning and work in the 21st century

http://www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/F49CA79F-86CD-40AB-9BBC-5CB2C81898B7/4224/life_learning_and_work.pdf

Community based learning

The term community based learning applies to those forms of learning in which a school looks beyond its boundaries to provide meaningful, relevant and authentic experiences for its students.

http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/10/t008.html

Decision-making

Decision-making refers to a reasoning process leading to the selection of a course of action among alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice, even if the choice involves no action.

A range of decision making models suitable for students K-10 can be accessed at:

http://www.gnb.ca/0000/publications/ss/pdcp6-12.pdf

Employability Skills

Employability skills are those “skills required not only to gain employment, but also to progress within an enterprise so as to achieve one’s potential and contribute successfully to enterprise strategic directions” (ACCI & BCA, 2001, p3). Employability skills are generic skills and attributes that can be transferred from one situation to another.

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/training_skills/publications_resources/profiles/employability_skills_for_the_future.htm

A chart outlining the employability skills and attributes can find this at:

http://www.actchamber.com.au/PDF/EmployabilitySkillsOverview.pdf

Employability Skills Framework

The Employability Skills Framework was developed by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and the Business Council of Australia (BCA) to describe the skills and personal attributes employers consider to be essential to successful workplace performance regardless of where one works or the type of work done. Employability skills are generic skills and attribute that can be transferred from one situation to another.

http://www.actchamber.com.au/PDF/EmployabilitySkillsOverview.pdf#search=%22Employability%20Skills%20Framework%22

Employment

Is when one works for a public or private organisation and gets paid. It includes categories of full-time part-time, permanent, causal, temporary, on-call, flexible working hours, shift work, job sharing and contract work.

Enterprise Education

Enterprise education is “learning directed towards developing in young people those skills, competencies, understandings and attributes which equip them to be innovative, and to identify, create, initiate and successfully manage personal, community, business and work opportunities, including working for themselves.” (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA)

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/career_development/programmes_funding/programme_categories/key_career_priorities/Enterprise_education/

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Enterprise Skills

Enterprising skills are those skills that empower people to take up a self-determining approach to achieve their goals. The development of enterprising skills in young people is important preparation for work and life and is valuable in both school and community settings.

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/career_development/programmes_funding/programme_categories/key_career_priorities/Enterprise_education/default.htm

Qualities & characteristics that describe an enterprising learner

http://www.dest.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/F0BC3C79-DBE2-4F72-A511-6B51D57BDD39/1935/enterprising_learner.pdf

Equity

The term equity relates to fair treatment regarding rights, opportunities, access and outcomes. Sometimes positive discrimination (i.e. unequal treatment) is exercised to address past inequality and bring about outcomes that are more equitable.

Goal

A goal is something that a person or group hopes or intends to accomplish. Well focused and achievable goals should be specific, measurable, adjustable, realistic and time-based (SMART), exciting and recorded (SMARTER).

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/Siegle/SelfEfficacy/section8.html

http://www.psywww.com/mtsite/page6.html

Goal setting

Goal setting is the task of setting goals. Goals can be short, medium or long term and can be revisited and reset. Setting goals can provide direction and focus.

http://www.psywww.com/mtsite/page6.html

Graphic organiser

A graphic organiser is a thinking tool that organises information in visual form. There are many different types of graphic organisers including concept maps, fishbone maps, flow charts, Venn diagrams, SWOT analysis and timelines. They are often used to extend student thinking and deepen understanding and skill acquisition.

Information on graphic organisers and templates can be found at:

http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/cia/index.php?page=teaching_strategies

Job

A job is a paid position requiring a group of specific attributes and skills than enable a person to perform tasks in an organisation either part-time or full-time for a short or long duration.

Learning Styles

Learning styles is a term for grouping common ways that people learn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/extra/module1/1.shtml

http://www.businessballs.com/howardgardnermultipleintelligences.htm

http://www.learning-styles-online.com/

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Lifelong Learning Lifelong Learning is defined as learning over the entire life span including all learning activity whether formal or informal, with the aim of improving knowledge, skills and competence, and promoting personal fulfilment. Lifelong learning is receiving renewed focus as a means to counteract change and global competition as well as helping individuals cope and shape change in the 21^st century world. ‘Learning is ongoing’ is one of the High Five Principles of Career Development. http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/lll/life/what_islll_en.html

Occupation

An occupation is defined as a group of similar jobs found in different industries or organisations.

TAFE

Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes offer a wide range of different types of tertiary education, including Vocational Education and Training (VET) courses and some higher education courses that are equivalent to university courses. http://www.education.gov.au/goved/go/pid/17

Tertiary education

Post-secondary courses offered by universities, private providers and TAFEs.

http://www.dest.gov.au/

Traineeship

Traineeships combine practical work with structured training to provide a nationally recognised qualification and experience. Participants earn while they learn. Traineeships are also referred to as Australian Apprenticeships.

(http://www.newapprenticeships.gov.au/about/).

Training

Training happen formally or informally and provides an individual with the opportunity to learn how to do new things, upgrade their skills and knowledge, or help them maintain what you have already learnt.

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research which grants academic degrees to all levels (bachelor, master, and doctorate) in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and post-graduate education.

www.goingtouni.gov.au

Vocational Education and Training (VET) Vocational Education and Training (also known as VET) is education and training designed to prepare people for work. It can also help to improve the knowledge and skills of people already working. VET is accredited training and courses are offered through the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. It is one of the three major sectors of education and training, the other two being the school and higher education sectors.

http://www.dest.gov.au/sectors/training_skills/

http://www.skills.tas.gov.au/

Vocational learning

Vocational learning is general learning that has a vocational perspective. It includes elements such as general employability skills, enterprise education, career education and community and work based learning. (MCEETYA, 2000)

http://www.mceetya.edu.au/verve/_resources/policy_file.pdf

Volunteering

Volunteer work is when an individual chooses to perform a task or supply goods or services to a not for profit organisation or project without receiving payment. Valuable skills can be developed through volunteering.

http://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/html/s01_home/home.asp

Work

Is a set of activities with an intended set of outcomes. It is not necessarily tied to paid employment and can include parenting or volunteering.

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