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The National Training System is the Australian system for vocational education and training (VET) under the VET Quality Framework (VQF), in which employers, the States of Australia, and the Commonwealth Government, formalise a curriculum available for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) to teach and assess the competency of students.
A graphic organizer, also known as a knowledge map, concept map, story map, cognitive organizer, advance organizer, or concept diagram, is a pedagogical tool that uses visual symbols to express knowledge and concepts through relationships between them. [1]
Vocational training schools (szakiskola) initially provide two years of general education, combined with some pre-vocational education and career orientation, they then choose an occupation, and then receive two or three years of vocational education and training focusing on that occupation—such as bricklayer.
The National Defense Education Act, signed in 1958, focused on improving education in science, mathematics, foreign languages, and other critical areas, especially in national defense. In 1963, the Vocational Education Act added support for vocational education schools for work-study programs and research.
Concept maps are widely used in education and business. Uses include: Note taking and summarizing gleaning key concepts, their relationships and hierarchy from documents and source materials; New knowledge creation: e.g., transforming tacit knowledge into an organizational resource, mapping team knowledge
Curriculum mapping is a procedure for reviewing the operational curriculum [1] as it is entered into an electronic database at any education setting. It is based largely on the work of Heidi Hayes Jacobs in Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12 (ASCD, 1997) and Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping (2004, ASCD).
CmapTools is concept mapping software developed by the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). [1] It allows users to easily create graphical nodes representing concepts, and to connect nodes using lines and linking words to form a network of interrelated propositions that represent knowledge of a topic. [2]
The Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET) emerged from the Swiss Pedagogical Institute for Vocational Education (SPIVE), which was founded in Zollikofen in 1972. In 1975, a second location was opened in Lausanne for French-speaking Switzerland, and in 1991 a third location was opened in Lugano for Italian ...