CHCEDS048

Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to contribute to the planning and implementation of strategies to support students who have challenges that may limit their access to the curriculum and its outcomes.

The unit applies to education support workers who operate under the guidance and supervision of a teacher or other educational professional. They work mainly with students in classroom settings in primary and secondary schools, as defined by State/Territory legislation.

Unit mapping information

CHCEDS022 Work with students in need of additional support

Licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements

The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practise.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

Foundation skills

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Unit sector or competency field

Children’s Education and Care–Education Support

Prerequisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units

Not applicable

Assessment conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in the workplace:

• implementation of support strategies must be directly observed by the assessor on at least one occasion
• remaining performance evidence may be collected through authenticated third-party reports
• observation and third-party reports must be supplemented by other forms of evidence

Skills related to responding to risk may be demonstrated through simulated activities and scenarios.

Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real-life working environment where the skills and knowledge within this unit would be utilised, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment.

Interactions with students must be supervised by a teacher or other educational professional.

Assessment must ensure access to:

• individual student information to inform planning
• individual learning plans
• teaching and learning resources
• organisational policies and procedures for learning support for those with additional needs
• students in a school
• colleagues for guidance and collaboration

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations requirements for assessors.