All micro-learning resources

This page links you with all the micro-learning resources in the TVET Toolkit. On this page, they are sorted alphabetically by the title.

Signposts- A professional development resource for new teaching staff in the tertiary sector

Be professional

Signposts is a professional development resource for new trainers, which was developed in New Zealand. There is a lot of useful information in this document.

Signposts

Communicate clearly

Plain English is a style of communication that makes information easier to understand. This learning resource works through five steps to make written communication clearer.

Signposts

Competency based training and assessment

This micro-learning resource explains the concepts of competency-based training and assessment.

Conduct assessments

Conduct assessments in TVET

This micro-learning resource explores what a TVET practitioner needs to think about when setting up a competency-based assessment, and includes a refresher on the principles of assessment.

Content layout checklist

Content and layout – checklist

This checklist will help you review the content and layout of your resources. The writer does the first review. There is an option for a second person to also reviewing the resource.

Marking rubrics

Create marking rubrics

This micro-learning resource gives TVET practitioners a basic understanding of how rubrics help to assess performance. It explains the advantages and disadvantages of using rubrics.

Design assessment Steps

Design assessments- Steps

This micro-learning resource explains eight steps to design good assessments. This begins by understanding your learners and ends with reviewing your assessment.

Design Online Learning Activities

Design online learning activities

This micro-learning resource explains some benefits of online learning and the key things trainers need to consider when deciding to deliver training online.

Do more with less - module

Do more with less

This document has seven practical tips for trainers on how they can make learning and assessment material on a small budget or when resources are limited.

Design assessment Steps

Employer engagement toolkit

This toolkit introduces a four-step process for teachers, TVET leaders, and career advisors to bridge the gap between young people and employers.

Evaluate and improve your training

Evaluate and improve your training

This micro-learning resource explains a structured approach to evaluating your training and. It uses a practical example to work the three steps to take after you have run your training.

TVET Toolkit Glossary of terms

Glossary

This micro-learning resource explains the meaning of words that are often used in TVET. It will be a valuable resource to refer to as you work through the Toolkit resources.

Design assessment Steps

Guide to Gender-Responsive Learning Materials Development

This guide is designed to be used as a tool to enhance gender equality considerations in learning materials. It will help understanding the different learning needs of women/girls to help them reach their full potential.

Improving the image of TVET

Improving the image of TVET

This document reports on a virtual conference hosted by UNESCO-UNEVOC in 2018. It was attended by 346 participants from 82 countries. The conference explored strategies to improve the image of TVET.

Introduction to competency-based assessment

Introduction to competency-based assessment (CBA)

This micro-learning resource introduces the basic core concepts of competency-based assessment. It explains the benefits of CBA, different types of evidence, and the key aspects of a good assessment.

Design assessment Steps

Introduction to embedding foundation skills

This micro-learning resource explains the groups of skills commonly known as foundation skills. It provides a practical three-step approach to embedding foundation skills into the design of TVET

Join a community of practice

Join a community of practice

This micro-learning resource explains the purpose and benefits of a community practice. It also provides seven tips for a successful community of practice.

Signposts- A professional development resource for new teaching staff in the tertiary sector

Know about and responding to difference

Signposts is a professional development resource for new trainers, which was developed in New Zealand. There is a lot of useful information in this document. The Toolkit references the different sections of the document separately.

Know the foundation skills demands and the learners

Know the foundation skills demands and the learners

This micro-learning resource helps TVET practitioners find the foundation skills in a TVET course using trigger words. It also introduces diagnostic assessment to identify learners’ current foundation skills using practical examples across a range of industries.

Signposts- A professional development resource for new teaching staff in the tertiary sector

Make your class engaging for learners

Signposts is a professional development resource for new trainers, which was developed in New Zealand. There is a lot of useful information in this document. The Toolkit references the different sections of the document separately.

Signposts- A professional development resource for new teaching staff in the tertiary sector

Manage your classroom

Signposts is a professional development resource for new trainers, which was developed in New Zealand. There is a lot of useful information in this document. The Toolkit references the different sections of the document separately.

Plan a lesson

Plan a lesson

This micro-learning resource uses a practical example to explore the process of lesson planning. This includes an overview of Blooms Taxonomy and how to draw on this model to design your lessons.

Signposts- A professional development resource for new teaching staff in the tertiary sector

Plan your training and deliver the goods

Signposts is a professional development resource for new trainers, which was developed in New Zealand. There is a lot of useful information in this document. The Toolkit references the different sections of the document separately.

Provide assessment feedback to learners

Provide assessment feedback to learners

This micro-learning resource has guidance for trainers on how and when to provide assessment feedback to learners. It covers the importance of providing balanced and meaningful feedback that will help learners improve.

Put Read Aloud on your MS Word Toolbar

Put Read Aloud on your MS Word Toolbar

Read Aloud is a feature in Microsoft Word. It can read out a document for you. You need to have Microsoft Word installed on your computer. You also need speakers or headphones.

Signposts- A professional development resource for new teaching staff in the tertiary sector

Reflect on your teaching

Signposts is a professional development resource for new trainers, which was developed in New Zealand. There is a lot of useful information in this document. The Toolkit references the different sections of the document separately.

Provide assessment feedback to learners

Set up a program or course – Checklist

This checklist is designed to help you think about the different things involved in setting up a programme. There may be other things to consider that are not on this checklist.

Support and encourage women in trades

Support and encourage women in trades

This article is based on research about how to support women to work as tradespeople in male dominated workplaces. It discusses the benefits of a diverse workforce as well as ways to attract and retain women in trades industries.

Teach difficult vocabulary to embed reading skills development in TVET

Teach difficult vocabulary to embed reading skills development in TVET

This micro-learning resource presents various activities to build learners’ vocabulary. The resource includes an authentic example to illustrate each activity. 

Teach practical skills

Teach practical skills

This micro-learning resource explains:

  • how we learn for competence
  • different types of learning activities
  • Peyton’s four-step approach to teaching practical skills.
Use graphic organisers to embed writing skills development

Use graphic organisers to embed writing skills development

This micro-learning resource introduces graphic organisers as an engaging way to support learners to develop writing skills in a vocational context.

Use speaking frames to embed speaking and listening skills development

Use speaking frames to embed speaking and listening skills development

This micro-learning resource explains how teachers and trainers can use speaking frames to embed speaking, listening, and language skills development in a vocational context. 

Validation and moderation

Validation and moderation

This micro-learning resources explains how validation and moderation support quality assurance in TVET. The resource introduces the:

  • Principles of assessment
  • Rules of evidence
Verification Level 1, Stage 2, Design

Verification

This micro-learning resource explains the practice of verification and how it can be used as a part of the assessment process in competency-based assessment.

Assunda Roy

Video: Benefits of TVET for Assunda Roy

In this video, Assunda Roy explains how TVET helped her set up an accommodation business.

Benefits of TVET for disabled female learners

Video: Benefits of TVET for disabled female learners

In this video, the Vanuatu Skills Partnership explain how TVET has provided opportunities for Vanessa Siro, a woman with a disability.

Erima Nunumbal

Video: Benefits of TVET for female learners – Erima Nunumbal

In this video Erima Nunumbal explains how TVET study has provided her opportunities in starting up a tour guide business which is often more male-orientated in Vanuatu.

Gael Waki

Video: Benefits of TVET for female learners – Gael Waki

In this video Fremden Yanhambath from the Vanuatu Skills Partnership explains how involving female trainers has benefited women learners in new ways.

Image of Vicky Fanfa, a tile laying trainee

Video: Benefits of TVET for female learners – Vicky Fanfa

In this video Vicky Fanfa explains the personal and career benefits that TVET study has brought her in working as a tiler.

Selfie photo of Mike Kumar

Video: Benefits of TVET for Kaliova Bilo

This video features Kaliova Bilo. He explains how studying TVET has taken him across the world and given him a life he would never have dreamed of.

Why TVET worked for me - Mike Kumar

Video: Benefits of TVET for Mike Kumar

This video features Mike Kumar who explains how his TVET study in Fiji has had a positive effect on his life and why he would recommend it for everyone to consider.

Shirley Worwor

Video: Benefits of TVET for Shirley Worwor

In this video Shirley Worwor shares her experience with TVET and how she started her own business and helped other women in her community.

Anna Blessing

Video: How TVET can empower women

In this video, stakeholders from Vanuatu explain how TVET empowers women.

Why TVET worked for me - Mike Kumar

Video: Sanma hats, partnering in TVET

This video showcases the story of how a partnership brokered by the Vanuatu Skills Partnership helped women in Vanuatu develop their technical and business skills.

Shirley Worwor

Video: What competency-based assessment means to Nelson Beti

This video features a trainer from the Solomon Islands called Nelson Beti. He explains what competency-based learning and assessment means to him.

Who is involved in TVET?

Who is involved in TVET?

This micro-learning resource explains the main groups of people involved in TVET. It also explains their roles.

Write assessment questions and instructions

Write assessment questions

This micro-learning resource is designed to help trainers write good assessment questions and tasks. It gives examples of the many different types of questions and the general rules for writing good questions.

Write assessment schedules

Write assessment schedules

This micro-learning resource will help TVET practitioners to understand what assessment schedules are and how they help when marking assessments. It includes a step-by-step guide with examples to help create assessment schedules.

Write good learning resources

Write good learning resources

This micro-learning resource explores five key principles to guide you as you design learning resources. At the end, there is an annotated examples of a learning resources that draws on these principles.