Work-Like Integrated Learning: A Guide for Trainers and Assessors

This guide has been developed for trainers and assessors who are looking for alternative ways to implement qualifications using a holistic, integrated approach. It will take you through the steps needed to understand work-like integrated learning, design an industry relevant integrating activity, set up the learning environment and how to structure the learning. It will also assist in explicitly addressing employability skills and supporting participants and assessing whether outcomes have been achieved.

The guide provides information, case studies, templates and tools to assist you in designing and delivering high-quality learning and assessment strategies for a range of target groups.

While work-like integrated learning can be applied in a range of situations in which individuals need to learn the skills for work, it is ideal in a work preparation context and is potentially applicable for all individuals learning the skills for work. It has been used successfully with the following target groups:

• school students undertaking VET in Schools programs
• youth at risk of leaving school
• long-term unemployed
• mature age workers returning to work after a long absence
• Indigenous groups
• those with special needs such as physical or intellectual disabilities.