LQDF Capacity Building Session

TETA Occupational Curriculum and Qualification

Development Process

Yolandi Raath-Booyens

Project Manager and QDF

15 August 2012

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1. Purpose and Expectations

2. The TETA Tipping Point as by ‘Malcolm Gladwell’

3. The Project ScopeQCTO RequirementsCEPsTeta Project Milestones

4. Dates-2-Diarise

1. Purpose and Expectations

2. The TETA Tipping Point as by ‘Malcolm Gladwell’

As Industry, Where do you want to be?

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The Hush Puppy Epidemic

• Sales were down to 30 00 pairs in mostly backwoods and small

village outlets.

• Wolverine was thinking of phasing out Hush Puppies

• Something strange happened…

• They became hip in clubs and being bought up at little stores

that carried them

• In 1995 they sold 430 000 pairs and the next year 4 times that.

• Won the best accessory prize at the Council of Fashion

Designers awards- and admitted they had almost nothing to do

with it!!

Source: The Tipping Point: Malcolm Gladwell

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The Hush Puppy EpidemicHow did this happen?

•Tipping point came between 1994 and 1995

•Started with a handful of kids in a small village who wore Hush Puppies

because no one else wanted to wear them.

•The fad spread to two fashion designers - an incidental touch.

•The shoes passed a certain point of popularity - and tipped

•A textbook example of epidemic in action – Firstly - contagious behaviour -

people got infected with the Hush Puppy virus.

•Secondly a little change had a big effect.

•Thirdly change happened in a hurry.

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The Rules of an Epidemic- The Tipping Point.

There are three rules of the tipping point:

The Law of a Few

The Stickiness Factor

The Power of Context

... These rules provide us with direction for how to go about to reach a Tipping Point

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How do we get there?

“The TETA epidemic”

The Law of a Few:

How many kids started to wear Hush Puppies - 100 at the most - little chance had a big effect.

Their actions started an international fashion trend.

People are critical to social and business epidemics.

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How do we get there?

So who are these people?Connectors- Pyramid rather than circle-They know a lot of people. The kind of people they know

Information specialists- We rely on them to connect us to new information

Salesmen- The power of persuasion

Transforming Teta - It is time for Africa- It takes a few of us to start infecting others...

Here all comes together

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How do we get there?“The TETA epidemic”

The Stickiness Factor: How do we get this transformation to stick?

Message must be something that can be passed on.

Messengers spread the message but the quality of the message determines its stickiness.

We need to ensure that we make it count when we advocate life-long learning -we need to count- we need a ticket to operate!! From Backroom to Boardroom...

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How do we get there?“The TETA epidemic”

The Power of Context:

For any epidemic to spread the environment or context should be right.What about the environment for the Teta professionals?Shareholders/ Stakeholders are looking for other means to unlock value. Internal efficiencies..The strategic impact of life-long learning is recognised more than ever.The value of occupational qualifications aligning to international benchmarks and professional designations needs to be recognised ...

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How do we know we’ve arrived?

Fit-for-purpose occupational qualifications developed

Generated by industry for industry

More training providers accredited against these

qualifications

More registered learners

More professionally qualified individuals

TETA qualifications acknowledged as THE study area of

choice

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How do we ensure we don't go back to where we came from?

Position training and development in innovation and growth interventions (i.e., beyond cost cutting)

Capitalise on and support continuous professional development.

Listen and learn: Ensure continuous involvement from all major stakeholders

Constantly explore new initiatives Retain your existing talent- invest in life-long learning. Start investing in people and processes to cope with

upturn in demand.

To name a few...

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2. The Project Scope: QCTO Requirements

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QUALIFICATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROCESSSTEPS

RESULTSCurriculum

Scope &

SLA with (DQP)

Occupational Profile

&SLA with

(AQP)B

Learning Com-ponent

Specifications (incl Internal Assessment)

Occupational Curriculum

(B+C)

Occupational Qualification

(C+D)

Receive and Pro-cess Application

Oversee Scoping Meeting with Constituency

Develop Occupa-tional Profile and Identify AQP

Develop Module and Subject Specifications

Finalise Assess-ment Specifications

Submit

Manage Verification Process

RESPONSIBLE

Manage Verifi-cation Process

A C

QCTO

Qualification Assessment

Specifications (External)

D E

DQP with Expert Practitioners (incl Assesors

Appoint AQP

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DQP with Expert Practitioners and AQP

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QCTO Staff4

QCTO Staff2

QCTO Staff1

QDF with Expert Practitioners, AQP & Educationalists

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DQP with Constituency Group7

QDF with Expert Practi-tioners, AQP & Educationalists

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DQP & QDF9

2. The Project Scope: Teta CEPs

The ‘Who’?Chambers: CEP

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3. The Project Scope: Teta Milestones

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3. Dates-2-Diarise

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Activity Facilitators Who are the Delegates? Dates

Occupational Profiling LQDFs, supported by QDFs CEPs, Working Groups 04 - 05-

Sept

Write-up of Occupational Profiles

LQDFs, supported by QDFs LQDFs, QDFs 06-Sep

CEP Sign-off Workshop to deal with public comments on occ prof

LQDFs, supported by QDFs CEPs 20-Sep

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Activity Facilitators Who are the Delegates? Dates

Curriculum Specifications: Knowledge

LQDFs, supported by QDFs CEPs, Working Groups 25 - 27-

Sep

Curriculum Specifications: Knowledge

LQDFs, supported by QDFs CEPs, Working Groups 09 - 10-

Oct

Write-up of Knowledge Specifications

LQDFs, supported by QDFs LQDFs 11 - 14-

Oct

Public Verification E-mail/ website /facebook

Wider TETA constituents 22-Oct

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Activity Facilitators Who are the Delegates? Dates

Curriculum Specifications: Practical

LQDFs, supported by QDFs CEPs, Working Groups 23 - 25-

Oct

Curriculum Specifications: Practical

LQDFs, supported by QDFs CEPs, Working Groups 06 - 07-

Nov

Write-up of Practical Specifications

LQDFs, supported by QDFs LQDFs 08 - 11-

Nov

Public Verification E-mail/ website /facebook

Wider TETA constituents 18-Nov

CEP Sign-off Workshop for knowledge and practical components

LQDFs, supported by QDFs CEPs, Working Groups 20-Nov

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Activity Facilitators Who are the Delegates? Dates

Curriculum Specifications: Work Experience

LQDFs, supported by QDFs CEPs, Working Groups 21 - 22-

Nov

Curriculum Specifications: Work Experience and External Assessment Criteria

LQDFs, supported by QDFs CEPs, Working Groups 28 - 30-

Jan

Write-up of Work Experience Specifications and External Assessment Criteria

LQDFs, supported by QDFs LQDFs 31-Jan -

03-Feb

Final Verification E-mail/ website /facebook Wider TETA constituents27-Feb

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Activity Facilitators Who are the Delegates? Dates

Consolidation on input received

LQDFs, supported by QDFs LQDFs 28-Feb

Final CEP Sign-off Workshop

LQDFs, supported by QDFs CEPs, Working Groups 01-Mar

Final submission to QCTO by TETA

TETA Project Sponsor 31-Mar

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Questions??

Thank you