Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing and Disability) - CHC33015

The program has been designed to utilise three learning environments (online, classroom and the workplace) to provide for a well-balanced student experience.

The program provides a blended learning approach to delivery of the Certificate III in Individual Support and provides a cross-specialisation approach with clusters developed based on 'vocational streams' designed to meet support work performance capabilities. 

There are four vocational clusters. Each cluster is designed to be delivered over 10 weeks. The learning materials include a range of resources for online self-paced learning, classroom training and work placement. 

Resources have been developed to cater for the needs of a pre-service target audience including:

• early school leavers
• students from a low socio-economic background
• second language learners

Program Scheduling

This program is divided into four clusters, each of 10 weeks duration that comprise of the following:

• industry derived short courses
• Greendale Community (a virtual workplace)
• classroom training
• work placement

The program schedule includes:

• online self-paced learning resources
• face to face classroom based learning including virtual and augmented reality
• workplace based learning and assessment

Pleae note the program has been desinged around the followoing:

• participants are required to attend three days per week
• classes run fro 5.5 hours per day

Learning content and activities have been developed to prepare students to undertake the assessment tasks with each cluster. Students are given opportunities to learn the content as well as build their digital literacy and technical skills using the LMS (Learning Managment System). Skills are practiced both in the classroom and in the workplace to build mastery.

Content has been provided throughout to support bith the disability and aged care contexts to offer an approriate balance between the two specialisations. 

Clustering has been used to minimise the duplication inherent in delivering individual units of competency from the Certificate III in Individual Support.

Where information is repeated with the clusters, specific service context is provided to ensure that the learning continues to be relevant and engaging.