Purpose of this Qualification?
This qualification is for those who want to build on a FETC, or for those learners who have completed the National Certificate: Occupationally Directed Education, Training and Development, Level 5, to enter the field of Occupationally Directed Education, Training and Development as a potential career, and have little or no previous exposure to Education, Training and Development (ETD). The qualification will also be valuable for those who may have been practising within the field, but without formal recognition.
LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING
- It is assumed that practitioners have expertise in the subject/occupation field in which they intend to provide education, training and development, at a level required to engage meaningfully in ETD within that field.
QUALIFICATION RULES
- Fundamental: all 20 credits for Communications.
- Core: all 86 core credits.
- Elective: 134 credits must be achieved from the possible 222 credits.
- For the purposes of this qualification to be met, learners should seek to obtain all the elective credits from at least four Exit Level Outcomes and make up the rest of the credits from the Elective unit standards associated with the remaining Exit Level Outcomes.
EXIT LEVEL OUTCOMES
- Communicate in a variety of ETD settings.
- Design and develop learning programmes and processes.
- Facilitate and evaluate learning.
- Engage in and promote assessment practices.
- Provide learning support to learners and organisations.
- Conduct skills development facilitation.
- Define standards and qualifications.
- Manage and administer education training and development.
- Engage in general management activities.
Who should attend the training?
- Needs analysts.
- Learning facilitators.
- Learning designers.
- Assessors.
- Learner and learning supporters.
- Skills Development Facilitators.
- Standards Writers and Qualification Designers.
- Education, Training and Development (ETD) Managers
ARTICULATION OPTIONS
Learners can move horizontally by achieving the credits specified in the following qualifications:
- 20159: “National Diploma: ABET Practice”, NQF Level 5.
- 20160: “Certificate: Education”, NQF Level 5.
- 49710: “National Diploma: Development Practice”, NQF Level 5.
Learners can move vertically by using this qualification as the basis for the following qualifications:
- 50331: “Certificate Occupationally Directed Education Training and Development Practices”, NQF Level 6.
- 20161: “Bachelor of Education”, NQF Level 6.
- 20485: “National First Degree in ABET Practice”, NQF Level 6.