Vet Practitioners' Network Conference 2009
Conference Program 
See below for available presentations.
Thursday 30th July
Moderation Day: 10am - 4pm, William Angliss Conference Centre, Melbourne
(NB - only for Diploma of VET Practice or TAA teachers)
Dinner: 6.30pm for 7pm, Metropolitan Hotel
Friday 31st July
Conference: 9am - 3.45pm, William Angliss Conference Centre, Melbourne
Who is invited?
- Members of the VET Practitioners’ Network.
- Teachers/trainers delivering Certificate IV & Diploma in TAA, Diploma of VET Practice & other qualifications for VET Practitioners.
The Conference will be workshop based. You will have opportunities to talk with others:
- Who have been delivering the Cert IV TAA and Dip VET Practice
- Who have specific skills and knowledge to share with people new to delivering the courses
- About validating your delivery and teaching modes
- To find suitable resources
- About the practice of teaching.
Keynote Speaker
Professor Terri Seddon, Faculty of Education, Monash University
Skilling for Economic, Environmental and Social Sustainability: Building ‘Integrated Global Educator’ Capacity in the VET Workforce 
(380KB) :
This keynote considers VET workforce skills relative to current challenges of human security and sustainability. It suggests that the existing ‘delivery’ model of training downplays the human dimensions of VET in ways that undercut the capacity of VET to meet current demand for skill-building. The skills required by ‘integrated global educators’ are proposed as a means of focusing a reprofessionalisation agenda in VET.
See Professor Seddon's profile at Monash University
Workshops
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The Scholarship of VET Teaching - what does the current research say?
Panel: Dr Ian Robertson, RMIT University; John Haycock, Swinburne University
Papers referred to in workshop:
Haycock, J. & Kelly, D. (2009). ‘From ‘trade teacher’ to ‘critically reflective practitioner’: The relationship between theory and occupational identity formation in TAFE teachers’, paper presented to Aligning Participants, Policy and Pedagogy: Traction and Tensions in VET Research, 12th Annual Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Conference, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Coogee Beach, Australia, 16–17 April.
Haycock, J. (2007). ‘In search of an educational theory informing practice in TAFE: a case study of one pre-vocational adult educator’, paper presented to Evolution, Revolution or Status Quo? The New Context for VET, 10th Annual Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association Conference, Victoria University, Footscray Park, Australia, 11–13 April.Robertson,
Dr Ian Teacher Training and Teacher Identity in Australian VET: Discussion Paper (118KB), paper presented to the VPN 2009 Conference, William Angliss Institute, Melbourne, Australia, 31 July 2009
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Assessment Design for Evidence Gathering - how much is enough? (356KB)
John Molenaar, Consultant
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Instructional Design in the new environment (2640KB)
Di Kelly, Swinburne University
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Assessment of Informal Learning (1969KB)
Anne Deschepper, Chisholm Institute
Presentations
The Skills Reform Agenda and its impact on the VET Environment (359KB)
Luke Behncke, Manager Training Packages, Skills Victoria
Conference queries: email the VTA.
Previous Conferences: 2007, 2008
The Conference is proudly sponsored by TAFE Development Centre
and IBSA - Innovation & Business Skills Australia
Page updated 3 August 2009