Course Title: Maintain and enhance professional practice

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5328 Diploma of Interpreting

Course Title: Maintain and enhance professional practice

Portfolio: DSC Portfolio Office

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.

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

LANG5767C

City Campus

TAFE

365T Global, Urban and Social Studies

Distance / Correspondence or Face-to-Face or Internet

Term1 2014,
Term2 2014,
Term1 2015,
Term2 2015,
Term1 2016,
Term2 2016

Course Contact: Atsuko Taniguchi

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 3973

Course Contact Email: atsuko.taniguchi@rmit.edu.au



Course Description

This unit covers skills and knowledge required  for individuals to manage their personal professional performance and to take responsibility for their professional development. This unit will be taught in a cluster with the following units:

PSPTIS501A Negotiate translating and interpreting assignments 
PSPTIS502A Prepare to translate and interpret
PSPTIS503A Apply codes and standards to ethical practice  
 

 

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None.



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

PSPTIS504A Maintain and enhance professional practice

Elements:

2. Determine personal development needs.

3. Participate in professional development activities.

 
1. Model high standards of performance


Learning Outcomes


Overview of Assessment

Assessment will be ongoing during the semester, and you will receive feedback on your progress. You will undertake a variety of assessment tasks and activities to assess your level of competence against key elements and performance criteria.

Assessment tasks may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • practical exercises
  • group discussions
  • preparing specific portfolios
  • visiting/researching potential workplaces and presenting oral or written reports 
  • teacher directed group and individual activities