CHCEDS041

Application

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to create, maintain and monitor individual and/or small group learning environments. This may include a learning activity area in a classroom, library or home-based learning environment, or a virtual learning environment.

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 or secondary schools, as defined by State/Territory legislation

Unit mapping information

Supersedes and is not equivalent to CHCEDS004 Contribute to organisation and management of classroom or centre and CHCEDS012 Set up and sustain individual and small group learning areas.

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 practice.

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

Education Support: Children’s Education and Care

Prerequisite, co-requisite or interdependent assessment of units

Not Applicable

Assessment conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in the workplace:

• performance evidence may be collected through authenticated third-party reports
• third party reports must be supplemented by other forms of evidence.

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

Assessment must ensure access to:

• learning activities for which spaces are created
• a resource organisation system
• equipment and materials for creation of the space
• organisational policies and procedures for accessing resources
• students for whom spaces are created
• colleagues for guidance and collaboration.

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