VU23578 - Recognise and use time in highly familiar situations
Overview
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required by EAL learners to recognise and use time including days and months related to highly familiar activities.
The outcomes described in this unit relate to:
- the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF). They partly contribute to the achievement of ACSF indicators for Reading and Numeracy at Pre level 1, and
- the ISLPR (International Second Language Proficiency Ratings) descriptors for Reading. They partly contribute to the achievement of Reading 0 + Numeracy is not applicable.This unit applies to learners from language backgrounds other than English who may be preliterate in their first language and who are at the beginning stages of numeracy.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work-based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:
- recognise the time of two highly familiar activities in whole hours on a digital clock
- write the time of two highly familiar activities, in whole hours in 12 hour digital format, one of which includes the start and finish time
- write two dates of personal significance or importance, using appropriate conventions of writing dates
- order the days of the week and months of the year in correct sequence, including demonstration of the concept of the day before and day after.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the VU Polytechnic and/or via the Victoria University Polytechnic e-Learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):