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Writing learning objectives for the TAESS00026 Foundation Skills Integration Skill Set

Introduction

Recently, I have been developing training and assessment resources for the TAESS00026 Foundation Skills Integration Skill Set. This skill set consists of three units of competency:

  • TAELLN421 Integrate core skills support into training and assessment
  • TAELLN423 Integrate employability skills support into training and assessment
  • TAELLN422 Use foundation skills resources, strategies and advice.

The following are the ‘Application’ statements for these three units.

At first glance, there seems to some common topics between the three units, and overlapping topics between ‘TAELLN421 Integrate core skills support into training and assessment’ and ‘TAELLN423 Integrate employability skills support into training and assessment’.

Exploring alignment

A practical way to explore the alignment between the three units is to place information about each unit beside each other. The following shows the there ‘Application’ statements in a 3-column table.

In the following table, key topics have been highlighted and different colours have been used to identify alignment.

Writing learning objectives

First, I identified three overlapping topics between ‘TAELLN421 Integrate core skills support into training and assessment’ and ‘TAELLN423 Integrate employability skills support into training and assessment’

The next step was to simplify the convoluted terminology and add some extra details extracted from performance criteria, in particular from ‘TAELLN422 Use foundation skills resources, strategies and advice’.

I thought that having five objectives with two sub-objectives was less overwhelming and easier to communicate than seven objectives

I think these learning objectives capture the essence of the training program. Also, I think these learning objectives gives a clear direction to be understood by learners when they commence the ‘TAESS00026 Foundation Skills Integration Skill Set’ training course.

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Conclusion

Writing and communicating learning objectives for an entire training course is requires a different approach to learning objectives for a training session. In this article, I have demonstrated an approach that I have used recently to write learning objectives for an entire training course.

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