VCAL - Personal Development Skills Intermediate

New for 2011

We wish to update you on the new resources that we have available to enhance your school’s VCAL programs.

The existing sets; Personal Development Skills for VCAL and Literacy Skills for VCAL will be retired at the end of Term 3, 2010.

In their place we are releasing new updated resources specifically written for each of the VCAL levels starting with Personal Development Skills - Intermediate and Literacy - Intermediate. These new, level-specific, student workbooks have been written to satisfy all outcomes associated with a particular program of VCAL instruction.

Pre-printed workbooks

Personal Development Skills - Intermediate will be available as professionally pre-printed student workbook of approximately 140-150 pages, that you can either purchase directly from us or through your regular booklist supplier.

You might use this new student workbook with individual students or as a class set resource for entire cohorts.  You can either purchase these directly from us or through your regular booklist supplier.

Workbooks will be approximately $30 through booksellers, (less if purchased directly from us).

Master license

As with all of our VCAL resources you might also choose to buy a master license to reproduce these resources yourself.
Master set license will be $165.  Master license discounts will be available for schools purchasing bulk copies of the pre-printed workbooks or for schools who have an existing Literacy master license.

The resources are supported by a new program specific teaching guide made available exclusively to those schools that are using sets of these new workbooks and/or to those who have purchased the master license.

A sample of this will be available on this website in early August.

Availability and preview samples FAQ

Personal Development Skills - Intermediate is expected to be available late November 2010.  You can booklist this workbook at any time before that. 

Samples are available as downloadable PDF files through this website and will be upadted on a continuing basis.
Further details will be confirmed over the new few weeks so keep checking this website for further updates.

Please contact us to let us know if you are planning to use these new resources.

Any questions, just call us or send an e-mail. 

Contents:  Personal Development Skills - Intermediate
(Topic structure may change slightly)

Sections (vary between 12-20 pages)   

1.         Introduction to Personality 

2.         Managing Myself Effectively 

3.         Building PDS Skills 

4.         Becoming a Leader 

5.         Interpersonal Communication 

6.         Advanced Planning & Organising 

7.         Investigating Hobbies and Interests 

8.         Effective Problem-Solving 

9.         Innovation and Enterprise 

10.       Advanced Team Skills 

11.       Putting it all Together 

12.       Pro-formas