Childcare - Communications & Work Experience

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€285. If you are due to complete the Full Level 5 Early Childhood Care and Education Award additional QQI Fees will apply.

Communications module: The purpose of this award is to equip the learner with the relevant knowledge, skill and competence to communicate verbally and non-verbally in a comprehensive range of everyday tasks and in work-related tasks independently while under general direction.

Work Experience module: The purpose of this award is to equip the learner with the relevant knowledge, skill and competence to participate in the workplace for a limited time, carrying out work related tasks autonomously and/or under general direction.

Students will need to find their own work placement and Garda Vetting will be required.

Level 5 Communications Learning Outcomes:
1. Analyse a range of current issues in communications and information technology

2. Summarise in practical terms the elements of legislation that must be observed in a personal and/or work context, to include health, safety and welfare at work and communications-related legislation

3. Use appropriate non-verbal and visual communication in personal- and work-related settings, to include one-to-one, in a group/team, and in formal and informal interaction

4. Demonstrate verbal skills appropriate to working under general direction, to include making a case 2 and presenting a point of view in group discussion, formal meetings, interviews

5. Demonstrate listening skills appropriate to working under general direction, to include making eye contact, receiving and interpreting information, control of personal response

6. Use reading techniques appropriate to a task, to include skimming, obtaining an overview, identifying key points, critical evaluation, in depth analysis

7. Critique information from a range of complex written material, to include technical/vocational, personal, literary, and written and visual media texts

8. Research a relevant vocational topic, to include use of primary and secondary sources, acknowledgement of sources, use of enquiry techniques and methods to establish validity and reliability

9. Use drafting, proofreading and editing skills to write a range of documents that follow the conventions of language usage (spelling, punctuation, syntax), to include creative writing, business proposals, correspondence, reports, memoranda, minutes, applications

10. Demonstrate communications styles and techniques relevant to different situations in work and leisure, to include one-to-one and group contexts in conversation, interview, oral presentation, question and answer session and for the purposes of persuading, advocacy and informing

11. Choose the appropriate communications technology to give and receive requests, instructions, suggestions, discussion and feedback in both work and leisure, to include a rationale for choosing one technology over another in different contexts and for different messages. Critique current issues in communications and information technology, to include digital and mobile technology, the internet, and the policies and principles relevant to a vocational area.

Level 6 Work Experience Learning Outcomes:
1. Examine work organisations and personal career opportunities in a particular vocational area, to include consideration of work-related issues and needs.

2. Analyse key challenges and opportunities facing a particular vocational area.

3. Summarise the basic rights and responsibilities of employees and employers in a particular work, organisational or institutional context, to include health, safety and welfare at work, equality legislation, union representation and regulations relating to pay

4. Compile a personal and vocational skills audit and career plan for a specific vocational area, to include 2 goals and action points for the period of work experience

5. Present relevant work experience material, to include a CV or personal statement, letter of application, evidence of job-finding skills, skills checklist, statement of learning goals, contractual arrangements.

6. Participate effectively in work experience, to include observation of good timekeeping, working independently while under general direction, meeting deadlines, personal presentation, communication, adherence to health, safety and other relevant regulations

7. Demonstrate effective communications skills in the workplace, to include personal, interpersonal and technological communications skills

8. Reflect on workplace experiences, to include feedback by supervisors or mentors on personal performance and challenges such as conflict, criticism, meeting new people and learning in relation to quality management.

9. Explore options for future education, training and employment in light of work experienceExamine work organisations and personal career opportunities in a particular vocational area, to include consideration of work related issues and needs.

5N0690 Communications
6N1946 Work Experience

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