The Teacher Competency framework
The framework has 2 sections. The Mandatory section contains a number of tasks which must be completed. While the Elective section lists a number of tasks from
which candidates may select 6 which best reflect their teaching needs and interests.
Mandatory (All tasks/competences must be completed)
Task/Competence
Build an ePortfolio of competency evidence
Produce and use in a learning situation, a complex
slide-based presentation
Produce a short audio/video podcast
Participate in the curriculum development and
delivery of a short skills development course for the
local community/ informal sector
Use online information and resource channels for own
professional development
Complete the COL Flexible Skills Development course.
Description
Use a Cloud based environment to upload and record The ePortfolio contains the complete evidence set for
evidence of completion of each capability e.g.
DropBox, Google Drive or similar.
Use of presentation software e.g. MS PowerPoint,
Open Office Impress or similar.
NOTE: Not accepted - PowerPoint presentations that
simply replicate existing ‘yellow notes’ and primarily
used as a lecture guide for the teacher that does not
change or improve teacher-student engagement.
Use of audio recording and editing software to
produce an audio podcast of not less than 3 minutes
for video, and not less than 1 minute for audio.
More courses for the community/ informal sector
need to be developed. These need to be designed
specifically with this target group in mind.
The use of the internet for own professional
development, to update subject and teaching skills is
increasing necessary for teachers.
Complete the COL Flexible Skills Development course
Indicative criteria
FaB certification.
Evidence : complete ePortfolio
A minimum of 8 slides, including: audio narration;
graphics; video clip; built-in animation features; built-
in slide interactivity e.g. animation triggers
Evidence : PowerPoint presentation
An audio file in an appropriate format.
The audio should be clear, with an appropriate pace
of narration and sound effects which aid learning. The
podcast may be interactive in that it may refer to
additional learning materials that the student needs
to interact/refer to.
Evidence : Podcast
The course must have been delivered, subsequently
evaluated for impact and relevance to the target
audience.
Evidence : Delivery of a skills course
A minimum of 4 resource channels are used e.g. COL,
Coursera, Alison Courses etc.
Evidence : Certificate of course completion
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Evidence : Certificate of course completion
Electives (Choose any 6)
1. Make learning materials available through an This is intended to cover creating a course on an LMS This need not be a fully structured course, just
online course e.g. Moodle evidence that learning materials have been made
available to students online in a structured
environment
2. Create an online questionnaire or formative Use of an LMS or stand-alone question generator to A minimum of 20 questions, using 4 different question
assessment create an online evaluation questionnaire or types. If a questionnaire, there must be evidence of
assessment analysis. If an assessment, evidence of appropriate
online feedback
3. Produce an animated cartoon Use of a Web 2.0 site or stand-alone software to A lesson plan that outlines how the software/cartoon
create a cartoon that illustrates/demonstrates/ was used with a student group.
outlines a vocational skill or concept Web 2.0 websites could be Xtranormal; Voki;
4. Use WhatsApp, Zoom or Skype or other online There are many types of online communication and A lesson plan, in the format used by your institution,
collaborative tool with your students collaboration tools. that describes the use of online communication and
collaboration tools to teach or create learning
material for a vocational topic.
5. Complete the COL OER short course, OER videos, computer-based resources or text-based
Understanding Open Educational Resources (OER) Demonstrate knowledge of where to find relevant resources being used according to the licenses.eg.
and identify relevant OER and incorporate them OER, how to identify open licenses and how to MoodleShare.
into teaching content. integrate OER content in teaching.
Evidence: Add the Certificate to your ePortfolio
6. Produce a short instructional video Use of video recording and editing software to A video file in an appropriate format.
produce an instructional video of not less than 3 Production requirements as per the COL AV
minutes workshops.
7. Produce learning and assessment content for a Providing learning content via a mobile phone/tablet This could be achieved in several ways however most
mobile device device in an appropriate format will use a PowerPoint conversion tool, to create a
Flash movie or HTML5 conversion.
8. Use Cloud based environments to share There are several possibilities including Google Drive, Evidence that Cloud resources have been used.
resources with students. Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive, One Drive
9. Use a range of utility software Short case studies/descriptions on the use of a range A minimum of 4 from:
of utility programs. Video capture; video conversion; audio conversion;
document conversion; image conversion; narrated
screencasts;
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10. Other, teacher defined There are very many possibilities. This is to allow Self-defined
teachers to define their own ‘competence’