Welcome to the Sustainable Timber Toolbox tour.
This Toolbox contains two units, each one supporting a competency from the Forest and Forest Products Industry Training Package (FPI05).
All units follow the same structure, as shown below. Although the pages within each section are designed to be read sequentially, learners can go to any page by using the side menu bar, which is specific to each unit.
The site map shows the full layout of the Sustainable Timber Toolbox.
Unit structure
Introduction: provides a general introduction to the unit and describes the various sections that make up the learning content.
Glossary: lists key words and their meanings.
Resources: contains links to all PDF, Word and Flash files used throughout the unit.
RPL checklist: provides a self-assessment checklist for people considering applying for RPL in the unit, as well as a link to the Unit of Competency.
Individual sections within each unit
Overview: provides an overview the topics covered in that section, and the method for working through the subject matter, learning activities and assessment tasks.
Lessons: divides the content into discrete 'chunks', with each one having a Learning Activity designed to reinforce the principles discussed in that topic.
Assignment: provides a set of questions or an assignment on the topics covered, suitable for use as an assessment exercise.
Case study: contains a slideshow presentation of a typical worker in that field of activity, with a voice over explaining how they would answer the Task questions.
Units
Select below for the task, learning activities and resources in each unit.
Employability skills
Employability Skill and Learning and assessment strategies
- Communication
- Preparing and presenting written and verbal reports
- Working in groups
- Communicating with and responding to work colleagues and customers
- Teamwork
- Group discussion
- Working in a team
- Interactive activities
- Problem solving
- Case studies
- Researching
- Problem solving in teams and networks
- Decision making activities
- Initiative and enterprise
- Suggesting changes and improvements
- Planning and organising
- Developing action plans
- Planning and organising
- Collecting and analysing information
- Self management
- Work plans
- Career planning exercises
- Learning
- Using skills in different contexts
- Self-evaluation tools
- Technology
- Using the internet
- Using ICT skills to complete activities
Communication activities
It is envisaged that most learners will be undertaking a qualification via flexible delivery mode, and will be working independently through the learning material in this Toolbox in between scheduled site visits by their trainer/assessor. Where learners in different locations are undertaking the same units of competency with a Registered Training Organisations (RTO), the trainer may decide to put them in contact with each other via email, and to hold regular web-based group training sessions.
The learning activities are designed to promote discussion between learners and their trainer, either in a face-to-face group session, or via a range of electronic means, including web or telephone hook-ups or simply through group emails.
Assessment evidence
Each section contains an assignment, which is designed to provide some of the evidence required for an RTO to assess a learner as competent in the unit being undertaken. Other evidence that would need to be gathered by the RTO would include a third party report from the learner's supervisor. Trainers may also wish to use the completed learning activities and the discussions generated between learners as further evidence of competence.
For candidates who believe they may be eligible for recognition of prior learning (RPL) assessment, the RPL Expressway provides detailed information on the specific performance criteria that apply to the unit, and the types of evidence they would need to present to the RTO. The RPL Expressway is also useful for learners who are self-assessing their progress and identifying any gaps in their current level of skills and knowledge.