Year 12 Vocational Major
Personal Development Skills
(Units 3 & 4)

COURSE OUTLINE

Unit 3 

This unit considers the role of interpersonal skills and social awareness in different settings and contexts. Students will examine leadership qualities and the characteristics of effective leaders and how these qualities can be applied to the achievement of goals within personal and community contexts. They will explore key components of effective teamwork and reflect on how to lead and contribute within a team context through a collaborative problem-solving activity. Students will evaluate individual contribution as well as the overall effectiveness of the team. 

Unit 4 

This unit focuses on student participation in an extended project relating to a community issue. Students will identify environmental, cultural, economic and social issues affecting the community and select one for an extended community project. They will look at past approaches to the selected issue in Australia and elsewhere, consider how they will research information, and formulate an objective to achieve. Students will reflect on how community awareness of a selected issue can be improved. Students will engage in a process of planning, implementing and evaluating a response to a selected community issue. They will conduct research, analyse findings and make decisions on how to present work. Students will consider the key elements (such as emotional intelligence and effective team practices) and considerations (such as safety and ethics) when implementing a community project. Students will present project to an appropriate audience of peers or community members and evaluate the effectiveness of chosen response to the issue. 

Area of Studies - Unit 3

1. Social awareness and interpersonal skills

2. Effective leadership

3. Effective teamwork

Area of Studies - Unit 4

1. Planning a community project

2. Implementing a community project

3. Evaluating a community project

ASSESSMENT TASKS 

Assessments tasks may take the form in the following ways
• A portfolio of accumulated evidence.
• Teacher observation.
• Student self-assessment.
• Community project