Vlasta Gunning
Quality Assurance Lead
Hazelbrook,NSW
Summary
- A collaborative manager with excellent staff leadership, mentoring, and team-building skills with a demonstrated ability to successfully manage complex situations within a demanding/high-profile work environment.
- Highly experienced in developing, creating, writing, moderating and validating assessment tasks for various programs and curricula, ensuring personalisation and contextualisation of learning delivery.
- Skilled in developing and implementing new teaching and learning strategies, teaching methods and learner management systems, including innovative approaches to program delivery, digital program delivery and online management systems delivery.
- Extensive experience in management of language education programs and related quality assurance and compliance, implementing a variety of government programs, including those that must comply with corporate, state and/or federal agency guidelines and government service provider instructions.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Assurance Lead
Government Programs, Navitas Skilled Futures
07.2019 - Current
- Monitoring documentation of assessment evidence collection and task judgment on a regular basis
- Monitoring Initial Assessments, Pre-Training Assessments, Progress Assessments and Exit reviews for all AMEP clients within Navitas
- Monitoring, evaluating and researching industry trends in order to ensure innovative, modern and relevant delivery practices to students across programs and curricula
- Monitoring Course planning and course delivery documents (Program Plans, Weekly Activity Records, Lesson plans, Summative Course Evaluations and Canvas courses)
- Supporting colleges with identifying teaching and training issues related to quality and compliance of Government Programs within Program delivery and providing support in developing and implementing strategies for improvement
- Working with the Task design team on designing current and relevant assessment papers, training and assessment strategies and courses to identify future opportunities in educational delivery and its relevancy to industry trends and development
- Working with Government Programs Manager on developing and providing meaningful performance review strategies, processes and performance management and professional development processes to ensure continuous improvement of teacher and staff performance and thus ensuring best practice in quality assurance and auditing
- Working in a team as a member of the NSW Assessment task bank validation group on developing, monitoring, validating and creating assessment tasks to ensure innovative, current and valid assessment and program delivery practices are maintained and continuously improved
- Working in the team on CSWE certificate assessment papers, FSK assessments, ACSF SEE assessments and moderations, preparing schedules for courses, working in the team with other teachers and team leaders and with management on implementing programs across levels and colleges
- Supporting the Curriculum Lead and the Teaching and Learning Unit regarding meeting provider regulatory requirements, quality assurance and compliance matters in Government services program contracts and in preparation for future contracts
- Undertaking benchmarking activities to identify examples of best practice, improvement opportunities related to maintaining standardized processes, documents and practices and coordinating improvement initiatives.
Academic Team Leader
Government Programs, Navitas Skilled Futures
03.2014 - 06.2019
- Providing expert advice and support to teachers and staff at the college and across the region to drive improvement and high quality of education practice in program delivery
- Providing leadership and coaching and support to a team of teachers to ensure continuous improvement of professional skills, standards and educational practices within government programs
- Developing and creating curriculum support programs and professional development programs and opportunities to support teachers and team leaders to further meet individual student needs and learning experience
- Monitoring, evaluating and researching industry trends in order to ensure innovative, modern and relevant delivery practices to students across programs and curricula
- Collaborating and working with other team members on evaluating and developing program strategies and plans and seeking client feedback through surveys and summative course evaluations in order to further improve consistent, cohesive and responsive program delivery and maximize student outcomes
- Working with Quality assurance team and Task design team on designing current and relevant assessment papers, training and assessment strategies and courses to identify future opportunities in educational delivery and its relevancy to industry trends and development
- Collaborating with Academic team leaders and with management on implementing innovative educational practices including digital technology across levels and colleges
- Working with Government Programs Manager on developing and providing meaningful performance review strategies, processes and performance management and professional development processes to ensure continuous improvement of teacher and staff performance and thus maximizing student involvement and outcomes
- Collaborating with Quality Assurance team as a member of the NSW Assessment task bank validation group on developing, monitoring, validating and creating assessment tasks to ensure innovative, current and valid assessment and program delivery practices are maintained and continuously improved
- Preparing class schedules and program delivery strategies for adult students, developing class activities and curriculum support programs to meet individual student needs and assisting teachers in development of resources and class activities
- Organizing texts, literature and teaching materials for teachers
- Assessing clients referred to us in the pre-training assessments, placing clients in classes and entering their progress into the web system
- Preparing student Interval Progress Assessments and evaluating student’s work, developing program plans, and summative evaluations
- Entering all relevant information on the government portal (Vet online and ARMS)
- Working with teachers and students to further improve the programs
- Working in the team on CSWE certificate assessment papers, CGEA assessments, ACSF SEE assessments and moderations, preparing schedules for courses, working in the team with other teachers and team leaders and with management on implementing programs across levels and colleges.
Primary Ethics Coordinator
Hazelbrook Public School
01.2010 - 01.2015
- Coordinating ethics classes at Hazelbrook Public school
- Dealing with the staff members of the school and principal, also dealing with ethics teachers and coordinators
- Negotiating class sizes, number of teachers, class allocation and staff issues as required
- Preparing class numbers, class allocation, coordinating teachers and relief teachers and providing students with the best suited teachers
- Organizing texts, literature and teaching materials for classes, and forwarding these to the teachers
- Coordinating teacher training, booking teachers into training and further development as required by Primary Ethics, organizing teacher sessions and taking part in regular teacher meetings
- Working in the team with teachers and other coordinators and cooperating the teaching of the same stage classes across different schools
- Interviewing teachers for suitable positions, entering their data and information into the Primary Ethics portal VMS and keeping the information updated and current
- Dealing with timetabling, new staff and organizing relief.
SLPET and AVOC Teacher /Assessor
AMEP, Navitas Skilled Futures
05.2006 - 03.2014
- Teacher of English language and grammar, literacy and numeracy
- Preparing class work for adult students, developing class activities and programs to meet individual student needs and assisting students in their settlement language needs
- Preparing student statements of progress and evaluating student’s work, developing program plans, and summative evaluations
- Working with students to further assist them in their individual settlement needs
- Working in the team on CSWE assessment papers, ACSF and FSK SEE assessments and moderations, preparing schedules for courses, working in the team with other teachers and cooperating in teaching the same classes and courses
- Working with two different language programs (AMEP and SEE) on a daily basis in the class and when assessing students and their progress
- Assessing clients referred to our programs using ACSF and ISLPR
- Placing students into classes depending on their level of skills and competence.
Education
Certificate IV Training and Assessment -
TAE 40116
2019
Master of Arts - Applied Linguistics
University of Technology
2002
Certificate III in Information Technology -
Kent Institute of IT
2001
Postgraduate Studies of Special Pedagogy -
University of J.E.P. Usti n.L.
1999
Masters of Education, degree - German and Czech Languages and Literature
University of J.E.P. Usti n.L
1994
Skills
- Language (ESL), Educational Assessment, Classroom Management, and Curriculum Assessment and Quality Assurance
- Experienced in delivering curricula-based training and training packages in the VET sector, including foundation skills programs, digital learning and vocational training within an RTO context
- Highly experienced in developing, writing and delivering Professional development for teachers and trainers, supporting and developing innovative learning delivery in adult education programs, face to face training to teachers and trainers, teaching adults and children across different programs and languages
- Extensive experience in providing leadership, coaching and support to teacher, trainer and staff teams in a college environment and ensuring continuous improvement to students’ learning experience
- Extensive experience in providing quality assurance of assessment processes, policy and implementation of curricula across a range of programs and frameworks and coordinating compliance audits and activities associated with the government and as part of an RTO
- Strong communicator at all levels with in-depth skills to translate complex issues and concepts to a varied audience
- Contract Compliance
Timeline
Quality Assurance Lead
Government Programs, Navitas Skilled Futures
07.2019 - Current
Academic Team Leader
Government Programs, Navitas Skilled Futures
03.2014 - 06.2019
Primary Ethics Coordinator
Hazelbrook Public School
01.2010 - 01.2015
SLPET and AVOC Teacher /Assessor
AMEP, Navitas Skilled Futures
05.2006 - 03.2014
Certificate IV Training and Assessment -
TAE 40116
Master of Arts - Applied Linguistics
University of Technology
Certificate III in Information Technology -
Kent Institute of IT
Postgraduate Studies of Special Pedagogy -
University of J.E.P. Usti n.L.
Masters of Education, degree - German and Czech Languages and Literature
University of J.E.P. Usti n.L
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