1. Nadia Casarotto / Cheryl Bartolo 18 September 2014 THE Certificates in General Education for Adults

2. BACKGROUND CGEA accredited for 5 years from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2018 Curriculum available : Under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Australia License From the Training Support Network website at http://trainingsupport.skills.vic.gov.au http://trainingsupport.skills.vic.gov.au

3. PURPOSE Provide skill development in: Reading Writing Numeracy to meet personal needs and facilitate community participation, or workplace and further education and training options

4. 22234VIC Course in General Education for Adults ACSF Level 1 Provides learners who have low literacy and numeracy skills the opportunity to: build confidence re-engage with learning pathway into AQF qualifications

5. 22235VIC Certificate I in General Education for Adults (Introductory) ACSF Level 2 Develops: literacy skills to create and interpret simple, personally relevant texts mathematical knowledge to apply numeracy skills in everyday familiar activities

6. 22236VIC Certificate I in General Education for Adults ACSF Level 3 Develops: literacy skills to read, interpret, evaluate and create a range of texts application of knowledge of familiar and less familiar informal and formal numeracy in a range of contexts

7. 22237VIC Certificate II in General Education for Adults ACSF Level 4 Develops: literacy skills to read, interpret, evaluate and create a range of texts knowledge of everyday and formal numeracy in a range of contexts to extract and evaluate mathematical information

8. 22238VIC Certificate IIII in General Education for Adults ACSF Level 5 Develops: literacy skills to read, interpret, critically analyse and create complex texts numeracy skills to perform a range of complex mathematical tasks

9. USING THE CGEA Integrating delivery and assessment Contextualising delivery and assessment to reflect the interests and needs of learners Incorporating digital literacy

10. RESOURCES CGEA Implementation Guide: www.education.vic.gov.au/training/providers/Pages/teachingresources.aspx www.education.vic.gov.au/training/providers/Pages/teachingresources.aspx CGEA Sample Assessment Tools (for previous iteration): www.education.vic.gov.au/training/providers/Pages/teachingresources.aspx www.education.vic.gov.au/training/providers/Pages/teachingresources.aspx Australian Core Skills Framework: www.innovation.gov.au/skills/LiteracyAndNumeracy/AustralianCoreSkillsFramework/Pages/Dow nloads.aspx www.innovation.gov.au/skills/LiteracyAndNumeracy/AustralianCoreSkillsFramework/Pages/Dow nloads.aspx Adult Learning Australia (ALA) video introducing the reaccredited CGEA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4kxljodELg www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4kxljodELg CGEA PD Wiki: http://cgea-pd.wikispaces.com/ http://cgea-pd.wikispaces.com/ CGEA Champions Network: contact CMM for network details sicmm@generalstudies.vu.edu.au sicmm@generalstudies.vu.edu.au

11. Nadia Casarotto: 9919 5300 nadia.casarotto@vu.edu.au Cheryl Bartolo: 9919 5302 cheryl.bartolo@vu.edu.au CMM CONTACT DETAILS