Question 1: Assess your personal knowledge and skills against competency standards such as enterprise specific competencies or nationally endorsed units of competency. My qualification/s and or transcript/s | Qualification/s cover these courses and or units delivered by MOM | My experience as describedbelow and can be verified | Experience Covers these courses and or units delivered by MOM | CHC60202 Advance Diploma of Children services | CHC30712 Certificate III in Children Services CHC50908 Diploma of Children ServicesCHC60208 Advance Diploma of Children ServicesCHC41212 Certificate IV in Children Services (OSHC)CHC51012 Diploma in Children Services (OSHC)CHC30812 Certificate III in Education Support (following units only) * HLTOHS300B - Contribute to OHS processes * CHCCHILD401A - Identify and respond to children and young people at risk * CHCCN301B - Ensure the health and safety of children * CHCCN302A - Provide care for children * CHCIC301E - Interact effectively with children * HLTFA301C - Apply first aid * HLTHIR403C - Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers | I worked in the Child care industry for 16 years before becoming a Trainer and Assessor for the last 4 yearsMy duties over this time included working as an assistant , group leader, casual float as well as a Director, My skills include * Working with children, all age groups including children in OSHC up to 12 years old. * OHS procedures * Working with families * Working with different departments ie inclusion support * Reporting on running of centre to management * Rosters * Fee payments and Debit control * Follow companies policy and procedures * Customer Services | CHC30712 Certificate III in Children Services CHC50908 Diploma of Children ServicesCHC60208 Advance Diploma of Children ServicesCHC41212 Certificate IV in Children Services (OSHC)CHC51008 Diploma in Children Services (OSHC)CHC30812 Certificate III in Education Support (following units only) * HLTOHS300B - Contribute to OHS processes * CHCCHILD401A - Identify and respond to children and young people at risk * CHCCN301B - Ensure the health and safety of children * CHCCN302A - Provide care for children * CHCIC301E - Interact effectively with children * HLTFA301C - Apply first aid * HLTHIR403C - Work effectively with culturally diverse clients and co-workers | My qualification/s and or transcript/s | Qualification/s cover these courses and or units delivered by MOM | My experience as describedbelow and can be verified | Experience Covers these courses and or units delivered by MOM | BSB40207 - Certificate IV in BusinessIndividual units of competency:BSBFIA302A – Process PayrollBSBFIA303A – Process Accounts Payable and Receivable BSBFIA304A – Maintain a General Ledger | BSB30112 – Certificate III in Business | I have worked in the childcare industry as a Childcare Centre Director for the 5 years before I became a trainer.My skills include: * Reporting on running of centre to management * Rosters * Fee payments and Debit control * Follow companies policy and procedures * Customer Services The last three years I moved away from full time training to Administration which I have fulfilled duties of: * Fee payments and Debit control * Follow companies policy and procedures * Customer Services * Data entry in range of systems * Reporting to management and DETE * Document creation / version controlling * Website maintenance | BSB30112 – Certificate III in Business | TAE40110 – Certificate IV in Training and Assessment | | I have been working as a trainer within MOM for the past 4 years Training the above range of course. | |

Question 2: Seek written feedback from two people who are familiar with your work and can assess aspects of your professional competency such as employees, colleagues, clients or supervisors.
Feedback 1:
Feedback 2:

Question 3: Using the template provided in Appendix 1, develop a professional development plan. You should include: * Development opportunities such as training. Include opportunities to undertake within 1 year and within 5 years. * New skills you aim to acquire to achieve or maintain a competitive edge * Planned participation in networks or professional associations to enhance professional development * Timeframes in which to achieve development opportunities, new skills, participation in networks

Professional development opportunities/ training Timeframe | Description of opportunity/training | Skills/Competency to develop | 6 months | Public Speaking | * Confidence * Overcome nerves * To be able to present in front of a large group of people | 6 months | Dealing with Stress – when working under high demands | * Confindence * Communicate easier with others when under pressure * To be able to achieve goals within situations with higher levels of demands | 6 months | VET Fee Help | * Understand VET Fee Help requirements * How to apply for VET Fee Help for our organisation to offer * How to apply for VET Fee Help for students * Manage VET Fee Help within the company | 1 year | Double Diploma of Business and Management | * BSBRSK501B Manage Risk * BSBPMG522A Undertake Project Work * BSBWOR501B Manage personal work priorities and professional development * BSBLED502A Manage programs that promote personal effectiveness * BSBMKG502B Establish and adjust the marketing mix * BSBADM502B Manage meetings * BSBCUS501C Manage quality customer service * BSBMGT502B Manage people performance * BSBMKG501B Identify and evaluate marketing opportunities * BSBFIM501A Manage budgets and financial plans |
Professional development opportunities/ training Timeframe | Description of opportunity/training | Skills/Competency to develop | Within 5 years | Bachelor of Business | * Accounting * Advertising * Business Law * Business Mathematics * Commerce * Economics * Financial Planning * Human Resources * Information Technology * Logistics * Management * Marketing * Occupational Health and Safety * Small Business * Sport Management * Taxation * Tourism |
Networking activities Timeframe | Description of networking activities | Opportunity/professional advantage | Ongoing | Networking and visiting childcare centres | * Industry currency – to be able to continue to train childcare * Being able to keep up to date with changes that are happening in the childcare industry | Ongoing | Cairns District Vocational Education Training Network meetings | * Keeping current with changes within Vocational Education. * Networking with a range of people from other RTO’s and DETE in the Cairns region. |
Networking activities Timeframe | Description of networking activities | Opportunity/professional advantage | Ongoing | Networking and visiting childcare centres | * Industry currency – to be able to continue to train childcare * Being able to keep up to date with changes that are happening in the childcare industry | Ongoing | Networking with Teachers within high schools | * Keep me up to date with changes in the VET sector * Assists me with the devising new ideas to respond to student’s different needs | Bi-Monthly | CDVET (Cairns District Vocational Education Training) Network bi-monthly Meetings – Networking with other RTO, DETE, Industry specialist | * Keeping current with changes within Vocational Education. * Networking with a range of people from other RTO’s and DETE in the Cairns region. | Ongoing | Emails from various Organisations * Training.gov * APECT * DETE Connect Newsletter | * Being able to keep up to date with changes that happen on a regular base | Ongoing | On-line research and or professional reading * https://www.ibsa.org.au/ * NCVER News and Alerts * AVETMISS Support * www.training.gov.au * Contract Connect Newsletter * www.qsa.qld.edu.au * www.apprenticeshipsinfo.qld.gov.au * ICare News letter * Talking the lead * Community Services Folder * http://www.vetpd.qld.gov.au/index.html | * Helps keeps me up to date with industry changes as well as changes to the advetmiss systems and requirements with reporting etc |

Journal:

Question 1: In your journal, describe the process you undertook to assess your professional competency.
The process I took to assess my professional competency was as followed 1. I wrote down the qualifications that I hold 2. I then looked at the unit of competencies these hold to see which courses I cover to train that we deliver 3. I then wrote down all my experience and skills which I have gained through my employment 4. I then matched my experience and skills against unit of competencies to see which courses I cover to train that we deliver.

Question 2: In your journal, describe the process of seeking, receiving, analysing the feedback and applying the feedback to your professional development plan. The process I have under taken with seeking, receiving, analysing the feedback and applying it to my professional development plan is: * I created a performance appraisal feedback from which I gave to two of my work colleagues asking them to fill this out and to be honest for me. * I think read over these and made note of what areas I need to work on (looking at this as a positive constructive criticism)

Question 3: In your journal, you should discuss: * The process you undertook to identify, evaluate and select the development opportunities included in your professional development plan. Discuss learning styles and application to your planning * I think read over my feedback and made note of what areas I need to work on. * I then looked at what my professional goals, what my job description and what I need to work on or achieve to meet these. * I then looked at how I best learn and what learning style I am – from here I looked at what I need to do as I am visual and kinesthetic learner - I needed to ensure that my Professional development opportunities/ training meet both of these. * I then wrote down what Professional development opportunities/ training I need and what I Skills / competency I would develop from this. * I then looked at what networking activities I already do as well as what I will need to continue with to help keep me my professional development.

* New skills you plan to acquire. Explain how acquiring these skills will provide a competitive edge. * Acquiring these skills will provide me a competitive edge as I will not only gained higher qualifications I will also be current with three different industries which will help me to be a better trainer, I will also have gained skills to be able to be more efficient and communicate with others while under pressure, I will also gain new skills and knowledge from completing two different courses to be able to move into a higher position within my career. * Examples of networking you have undertaken or are currently undertaking to enhance knowledge, skills or work relationships * The examples I have added into my plan as above are a wide range to cover a number of different industries. * These have enhance my knowledge, skills and work relationships as I have been able to gain more confidence in speaking with different people in different positions some a lot higher than I am (ie Managers at DETE or other RTO’s) I have not met before * I am able to find out about changes that are happening within each industry * How others in the industries understand or incorporate different changes into their organization and how they are/have been able to overcome issues which we may come up against.