Sunday 24 March 2013

Photo 1 - What do you see from the Car Park?

Hello - I'm Liz Ingram. I am happy to be a part of this project.

 It is my first time as a BLOGGER.

This is the view from the carpark adjacent to the building where I teach. Where I teach is  called NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE - Tamworth TAFE Campus. I am a teacher in Children's Services . We teach adults - 17 and up to work with children across a variety of settings -

  • Family Day Care Educators ( educators who work in their own home and care for up to 5 children aged 0-5)
  • Pre School ( as educators of children aged 3-6)
  • Long Day Care ( as educators of children aged from 6 weeks to 6 years)
The minimum qualification to work with children in Australia is a CERTIFICATE III in Children's Services. We currenly have a mix of external, internal, trainees and RPL ( recognition of prior learning)  students numbering around 100 at the time of writing.

 Behind the fence is a little playground that we have just started building and we use it when we have visiting children's services.  Children come from our local area to allow our students some interaction with the children and opportunity to place theory into practice.
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  1. Unknown3 April 2013 at 13:05

    Hi, how many student do you have in a class? Can they validate this progamme?

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  2. Unknown4 April 2013 at 07:20

    It´s so interesting that you bring the children to your school. Our education is very teoretical inside the school.

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  3. lizzyi6 April 2013 at 22:58

    In each class it can vary - we need 12 to run the course to a maximum of 25 each intake. In Australia most courses will have a strongly weighted practical component at the TAFE level. If a student goes onto UNIVERSITY , the classes become more theoretical . Historically TAFE being a vocational trainer has taught the " trade" orientated courses.

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  4. Unknown24 April 2013 at 23:43

    Great introduction to read a litle bit about you as well, it gave me a more interesting reading!

    Good idee to invite children to your school, is it working? Is it a lot of Pre schools that will come?

    Of my experiens frome Sweden the students have to invite them selfs to diffrent Pre schools for practicing a praxis.

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    1. lizzyi26 April 2013 at 03:55

      Yes it works well each week we have a local service come with the children who are in walking distance to the environment.

      The next week the children come on a bus owned by the preschool.

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  5. lizzyi26 April 2013 at 03:53

    Each student has their 2 weeks work placement arranged for them by a coordinator within our institute .

    This covers them for insurance etc.

    By validate - do you mean RPL as in can students present their own documents that show they meet the requirements to pass the units ? We call this process " recognition"

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