Keep your Industry Currency Up-to-date With the Support of RTOs and Industry Employers
Last updated 27/10/26
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The engage tools and the checklist of recommended tasks help TTAs maintain industry currency, with the help of RTOs and employers.
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Tool: Create a Learning and Reflection Plan
To make the most of updated industry skills and knowledge and easily demonstrate evidence for compliance requirements
Before first currency opportunity and after each currency opportunity
Quick
Less than 20 minutes, minimal preparation required
- Receive the measurement approach summary from your RTO to help you create your individual learning and reflection plan
- Update the tool to include the training packages and units of competency you teach, the industry skills and knowledge you want to update and the agreed opportunities you will participate in
- Update the tool to include the volume and capability development indicators, reflection questions and opportunities to apply industry currency provided in the measurement approach summary
- Edit the template to remove or add space as needed
- After each industry currency opportunity complete the volume indicator, capability development indicator, reflection and application columns
Download tool (.xlsx) 350kbTo create your learning and reflection plan use the Identify industry currency requirements tool filled out in the prepare stage and the measurement approach summary provided by your RTO.
If you have not yet used this tool, click above to download and use the tool.
Use the Prepare Checklist to Independently Track Recommended Tasks
The recommended tasks will help TTAs:
- Understand the industry skills, knowledge and preferred opportunities you want to access over the next 12 months
1. Participate in currency opportunities
- Provide your RTO with requested employee information
- Identify any supports needed to fully participate and discuss these with your RTO
- Confirm with your RTO details and logistics for your currency opportunities
- Engage in reflective discussion with the employer during currency opportunities if relevant (your RTO will provide employers with topics and questions ahead of time)
To create your learning and reflection plan use the Identify industry currency requirements tool filled out in the prepare stage and the measurement approach summary provided by your RTO. If you have not yet used this tool, click below to download and use the tool.
Learning and reflection plan
Priya talks through the measurement approach template with Matt in one of their ongoing check-ins. Priya suggests a few additional application opportunities that she thinks would be useful. Matt adds these suggestions into the measurement approach. They also talk through the primary purpose of the indicators - to help TTAs and the RTO confidently meet compliance requirements.
Here Are a Few Real-life Examples of How You Might Use the Prepare Tools
These examples are not exhaustive and may look different in practice, based on your organisation’s work environment.
Industry Currency Empowers Students
TTAs with industry currency deliver engaging training that prepares students for their vocation.
Industry currency helps students think critically, use sound judgement and apply skills in practice.
Tell me more →There are many effective ways to extend industry skills and knowledge
This includes opportunities such as volunteering, temporary or supervised shifts and scheduled community engagements with clients.
This includes active participation in industry advisory groups, scheduled discussions with leaders or subject matter experts and collaborating with employers on a relevant project.
This includes completing an training course hosted by employers or attending professional development courses or conferences.
This includes actively participating in new or existing industry or sector communities of practice and planned discussions with internal colleagues.
Industry Currency Empowers Students
TTAs need support from RTOs and employers to update their industry skills and knowledge and set VET students up for success.
In the prepare stage, RTOs and employers have access to related tools and checklists. The checklists include recommended tasks to support collaboration between RTOs, employers and TTAs.
Note: Priya, Matt and Mei-Lin's fictional roles, responsibilities and included examples are not exhaustive. Roles, responsibilities and actual tasks may look different in practice.
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- Identify individual currency requirements
- Determine industry currency and partnership goals
- Define value proposition for employers
- Define partnership and logistics approach
- Prepare a project charter
- Identify industry currency requirements
Determine industry currency and partnership goals
- Plan for potential risks
- Define value proposition for RTOs
- Prepare a project charter
- Summarise recent industry changes
Frequently Asked Questions
I currently have a full-time teaching load, how will the toolkit help me maintain industry currency?
Without the support of your RTO and industry employers, it can be difficult to access opportunities to maintain industry currency. The RTO and employer toolkits support RTOs and employers to partner together to help you and other TTAs to stay up-to-date with industry skills and knowledge.
I currently hold part-time roles in industry and an RTO, how will the toolkit help me?
Do I need to teach a particular training course to benefit from the toolkit?
The tools include examples across different sectors. These examples help TTAs make the most of the tools, regardless of the courses they teach.
I want to feel confident I’ve met compliance requirements, can the toolkit help?
- Strong partnerships between your RTO and industry employers make it easier to access industry currency opportunities and gain insight into recent industry changes from an employer perspective.
- The tools for TTAs, RTOs and employers enable a collaborative approach to planning industry currency opportunities over a 12-month period.
- The RTO toolkit supports your RTO to provide you and your colleagues with consistent guidance on reflection, application and evidence expectations.
- The TTA and RTO toolkits include recommended industry currency opportunities, including when they are most effective, to help you choose opportunities that align with the industry skills and knowledge you want to update.
How often should I use the tools and checklists? Do I need to use all of them?
The toolkit is not a process you must follow from start to finish. It’s designed to enhance and build on existing processes. You can choose which tools you will use and tailor these to best meet your needs.
How will the toolkit help my RTO work with employers to minimise health and safety risks?
Why does the toolkit suggest I should have reflective conversations with employers?
My RTO doesn't know about this toolkit, how do I get them on board?
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