FSWD Workforce Development Project ACT

FS Project

Rebecca Lyons & Elizabeth Kehoe

Main Points / Additional Notes
Qualification / Certificate II in Hairdressing
C2-TH18 / SIH20111 / 8 core
5 electives
Cohort /
  • Typically 15-20 students
  • Predominantly female
  • Usually about half are 15-18 years
  • Usually about half are from culturally diverse backgrounds
  • LLN issues common
  • Typically visual / kinaesthetic learners
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Issues /
  • Need to ensure job ready graduates as some students progress straight into employment in salons (some progress to Cert 3)
  • Obvious lack of appropriate oral communication skills
  • Low completion rates in communication subject
  • Students often lack the underpinning skills in numeracy to successfully measure and prepare colour products
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  • Peer Validations confirm that Communication subject is not achieving desired outcomes
  • Student evaluations support the need to change the delivery of this subject.
  • Current delivery is largely text based however in the workplace, communication is almost always verbal; in particular interaction with client is personal.

VET Subjects /
  • Apply Hair Colour Products SIHHCLS201A
  • Communicate in the Workplace SIRXIND001A
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  • Cert II Hairdressing
CORE subject
  • Cert II/III Hairdressing
CORE subject
  • Unpacking LLN :
Colour subject:
Using simple metric units, rounding measurements, using instruments like digital scales, doing simple calculations with the measurements like halving and doubling etc
Communication subject: giving or responding to a message, using appropriate body language eg making eye contact and appropriate posture, using active listening skills, following simple instructions. etc
Relevant FS Subjects /
  • FSKNUM 09 Identify and estimate familiar quantities for work
  • FSKOCM 03 Participate in simple spoken interaction at work
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  • ACSF Level 2
  • All elements of units relevant
  • Performance criteria lend themselves to holistic delivery

Proposal / Trial the following model in 2014
  • Concurrent delivery of NUM 09 with Colour
  • Concurrent delivery of OCM 03 with Communicate in the Workplace
  • Team reaching model – one VET teacher + one LLN teacher
  • One subject guide for each pair of subjects
  • Holistic assessment of outcomes for each pair
  • No curriculum amendment is necessary. FSTP units appear in the "subjects not used" area of the students compliance/certificate essentially bonus units
  • Timeframe Semester 1 : delivery is scheduled for 1 day /week for 18 weeks
  • Allocate development time for revising delivery strategies and assessment tasks, particularly forCommunicate in the Workplace
  • Revise on –entry assessment to include some oral communication
For Cert 3 students - assessment of oral communication skills maybe done at the time of the students’ enrolment/RPL of initial subjects /
  • Experience tells us that students resist prep courses, additional support times etc.
  • A collaborative or integrated approach is preferred; examples of strategies that might be used include
Small groups in class to spend time with expert trainer for extra support
Scaffolded learning
Use of customised resources
Accommodation of different/multiple learning styles
  • Need to get away from theory basis and text based delivery of Communicate in the Workplace
  • Some parts of the assessment do not reflect industry practice; over emphasis on reading/writing;

Barriers to implementation? /
  • Funding

Enablers to implementation? /
  • Appropriate funding
  • Strong collaboration/partnership between FS specialist and VET area

How has knowledge of FSTP informed proposal /
  • Increased knowledge of FSTP in particular how it can be embedded in other training packages
  • Greater understanding of training packages in VET area (for Elizabeth)
  • Improved understanding of assessing learner LLN needs
  • Improved understanding of identifying LLN underpinning units of competency in training packages
  • Exploration of different models of integration of FS units into other training packages
  • Build relationship between FS specialist and vocational specialist
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Extension /
  • After successful trial in Cert II, extend into Cert III
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  • Communicate in the Workplace is also a Cert 3 core unit
  • Numeracy UoC from FSTP could also be embedded in range of colour subjects which rely on basic skills in fractions, percentages and ratios
  • Colour and Lighten Hair SIHHCLS302A
  • Neutralise Unwanted Colours and Tones SIHHCLS304A
  • Design and Perform Full and Partial Highlighting Techniques SIHHCLS303A
  • Perform on Scalp Full Head and Re-touch Bleach Services
SIHHCLS305A
  • Perform on Scalp Full Head and Re-touch Bleach Services
SIHHCLS305A

R Lyons & E KehoeDecember 20131