A Training and Assessment Strategy describes how an RTO plans to deliver and assess a training product for a particular cohort. A template can give the delivery team a place to document decisions and check that trainers, assessors and support staff understand the same plan. Start with the training product, the learners you expect and the delivery arrangements your organisation can provide.
What does the store sell?
CAQA Resources lists a Training and Assessment Strategy template that an RTO can customise for its learner cohort and organisation. The store invites buyers who want the template customised for them to contact the team. Open the listing for the qualification or training product you plan to deliver and confirm what is supplied before making a purchase.
Ask the person who leads delivery to review the sample alongside the current timetable and unit plan. Have them identify where they would record how the program is sequenced and what learners are expected to do between sessions. A colleague responsible for assessment can identify where they need to document the assessment methods, locations and arrangements for practical work.
What should I look for in a sample template?
Take one group your organisation expects to enrol. Try recording how the group will study and practise, who provides support and what facilities are available. See whether a person who did not create the strategy can understand the plan. If the template uses examples, identify which ones can be replaced with your own arrangements.
Follow one unit through the proposed program. Locate when the learner receives the teaching material, what opportunities they have to practise and where assessment will take place. Check whether staff can find the relevant responsibilities in the strategy and in the delivery documents they use. If the template calls for information kept elsewhere, decide where the cross reference should point.
How do I adapt the strategy for different groups?
Describe the actual cohort, the delivery mode and the units being offered. Check the planned sequence with the trainers who will teach it. If the same product is offered at multiple sites, compare which tasks can take place at each site and where learners need another arrangement. Record differences that affect how staff deliver or assess the program.
When workplace learning is involved, ask who confirms placement access, which staff prepare the learners and how evidence gets back to the assessor. If a group studies online, check how trainers can see progress and how learners will receive practical instructions. Use the template to document choices your team has agreed on and to identify arrangements that still need a decision.
What should happen after customisation?
Give the draft strategy to someone who will use it to prepare a class or assessment. Ask them to find the information they need without relying on the author to explain it. If they cannot identify which materials, facilities or support arrangements are planned, agree on what needs to be clarified before the strategy is issued.
Set an owner for the document and keep it where staff can identify the current version. Review it when the cohort, delivery mode, unit choices or assessment arrangements change. In the sample review, try documenting one change and ask a colleague to find the current instructions. That exercise can help you decide whether the template supports the way your RTO maintains its delivery plans.
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CAQA Resources materials are written by subject matter experts and are compliant and audit ready. You can customise, rebrand and reproduce the supplied Word or Office materials within your RTO. Your licence covers unlimited students within your RTO. This resource comes with CAQA's Quality Assurance Guarantee: if it gives an adverse audit outcome, we fix it free of cost, and all future updates are free until the training product becomes superseded and equivalent.
