Disability Inclusion and Workplace Health and Safety: It Hurts! Expo has
been produced in partnership between the Vocational and Applied
Learning Association (VALA) and CNBSafe.
With the introduction of the Senior Secondary Reform and the Victorian
Certificate of Education (VCE) Vocational Major (VM) VALA and CNBSafe
have worked together to develop a resource for an integrated VCE VM
project. This project meets the curriculum requirements set out by the
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority for VCE VM Year 11 and
Year 12.
VALA and CNBSafe believes that It Hurts! Expo is a valuable tool for
teaches wanting to use a project-based approach in their teaching. It
provides a structured approach with resources sourced from those with
lived experience of disabilities and workplace injuries at CNBSafe which
supports both teachers and students.
It Hurts! Expo is a community and workplace focused school program
targeted at young people in Year 11 and year 12 who are undertaking the
VCE VM. The structured applied learning program involves young people
working in groups, designing, implementing, and evaluating their own
Expo stall.
This resource is aimed at giving teachers and school communities the
information and resources required to deliver the program to VCE VM
senior secondary students.
The It Hurts! Expo emphasises personal, community, and work related
skill development of young people and therefore is complementary to
both general and work-related curriculum as framed in the VCE VM. The
program explicitly addresses the requirements of the Personal
Development, Literacy, Numeracy and Work Related Skills of the VCE VM.
It Hurts! Expo is a program that is designed around activities that reflect
inclusive education principles and adult learning principles.
The program aims to help students to:
work in collaboration with their peers, in decision-making processes
as respected partners in education
recognise that they are each unique, with their own strengths-
based, personalised approach to the program, celebrating and
welcoming difference to maximize learning, engagement, and
wellbeing.
draw on their own and others lived experiences to assist with
learning
focus on immediately applying new knowledge to real-life situations
and problems.
