Rationale

This is a toolkit of options to make your job easier in planning, structuring, and scheduling activities in a college environment. It is divided into two parts: one only or mainly for individual units or clusters, and the other is more whole of program.

It affects how you:

• determine whether students are underloaded or overloaded
• justify the program for Austudy (which is time-based)
• determine staff workloads
• hire part-time staff with other commitments, and
• pay staff on an hourly rate.

Choose a template according to the kind of knowledge students will learn and the purposes for which it will be used.

For example:

• Practical knowledge may be taught in a skills-based unit and practicum. It would be inappropriate to teach it as a theory-driven unit.
• A theory-driven unit intended for advanced placement in a university might be better taught using a theory-driven template or as a reading program.
• An individual student interested in a very specific topic might best do a reading program.