Gateway - Getting Students Into Workplace Learning
Find out about the Gateway Programme and download a MOU
- Selecting students for placement
- Preparing students for their placement
- Best practice for establishing a work placement
- ATTTO approved Travel and Tourism unit standards
- Introductory Gateway package
- Workplace assessment
- Reporting credit to the NZQA
- Applying for a unit standard assessment
- Administration reqiurements
- Other Gateway resources
Download MOU here
Schools taking part in the Gateway programme sign a contract in the form of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This contract, between the school, the workplace, and ATTTO, records each party’s obligations, the learning programme and the timeframe of the contract. Download MOU here.
Selecting your students for a Gateway Placement
Gateway students for the aviation, tourism, travel and museums industries should be selected for their potential to:
- Be organised: practise reliability, punctuality and effective time management.
- Be motivated: show pride in personal presentation and standards of work; show initiative, enthusiasm, and commitment; readily accept responsibility.
- Be able to handle information: exercise appropriate levels of numeracy and literacy, communicate effectively with customers and colleagues.
- Develop effective personal skills: show tact and diplomacy in relationships, work successfully in a team, show cultural awareness and sensitivity, develop high quality customer service
Preparing your students for a Gateway Placement
We recommend that Gateway students have already begun earning credits for a selection of generic Unit Standards that cover a suitable range of skill areas. This list indicates a basic selection that gives a student a solid start to building a worthwhile career path
Generic Unit Standards recommended as preparation for Gateway
NCEA Level One Literacy and Numeracy should be a target for students who wish to enter our industries.
What is best practice for establishing a work placement?
Recommended key steps are:
- Initiate personal contact with management
- Promote the advantages of a Gateway placement to the employer (if required)
- Identify the staff member who will be responsible for student/s
- Negotiate a workplace interview for the student/s at which the School representative is present
- Negotiate workplace duties and obligations/expectations (dress, attendance, etc.) together with the learning programme with the workplace and ensure that the student fully understands the implications of all aspects.
Students are expected to take responsibility to contact the workplace when absence is caused by sickness etc. - Consult with ATTTO Schools Liaison re suitability of proposed learning programme and requirements for assessment of student competency
- Complete an MOU with the workplace and with ATTTO as the assessing party, ensuring that the student also signs and has a sense of ownership of the plan. Download a MOU here.
- Implement a plan of regular dialogue with the workplace and monitoring of student progress against established check dates, with an early deadline for assessment (to avoid overloading the assessors at the last moment)
- Obtain the appropriate Trainee Evidence Guide/s from ATTTO (available free from website) with which the trainee can check readiness for assessment. Discuss any issues with the School Liaison Officer or Assessor.
- Apply to the School Liaison Officer for the appropriate Assessment Guides or Tasks
- For postal assessment double check completeness of evidence and attach copy of completed first page of MOU
ATTTO Approved Tourism and Travel Unit Standards
ATTTO supports these standards for Gateway and the school needs to tailor the learning programme to the student and to the requirements of the workplace. All of our standards can be credited to national certificates.
Schools are advised to consult carefully with the intended workplace and with ATTTO when planning a learning programme to ensure that all requirements are achievable.
Please note that entry to some standards require pre-requisite credits that may also be gained concurrently.
Students who are completing credits towards the National Certificate in Tourism and Travel Level 2 (Introductory Skills) should be directed towards the Level 3 unit standards for their Gateway placement.
Introductory Gateway Package
Our Introductory Gateway Package is suited to students who haven’t studied any tourism, travel or aviation. It provides an introduction to all of our aviation, travel, tourism and museums workplaces.
U.S. No Title Level Credit
18210 Communication and customer service skills 3 3
18224 Work in a team 2 2
18231 Work roles in Tourism and Travel
or or 2 3
20676 Aviation career paths
18232 Read and write in English 2 3
18233 Communicate in English 2 2
Total 13
The package has a customer service and career paths focus, and consists of three components:
- a student resource booklet for the five tourism unit standards
- a student assessment booklet (including attestation documentation)
- an assessment guide – to be used by the accredited Workplace Assessor, not to be seen by the student.
The pack costs $50 including GST and postage.
Students focusing on a service sector career in aviation also need the workbook “Principles of Flight and Aviation Careers”.
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School student workplace assessment
An ATTTO accredited workplace assessor will normally assess the student in the workplace, using the relevant Assessment Guide for the unit standard in question. In many cases, assessment will be able to be completed by post.
As part of the assessment, ‘employers’ may be required to attest to a student’s competence in certain areas.
Reporting credit to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA)
We will report to NZQA on the credit each student achieved for the competencies they were assessed for, by our accredited assessors.
Applying for a unit standard assessment
You can now report credit to the NZQA or apply for a unit standard assessment by completing this form: ATTTO Gateway Credit Reporting/Assessment form. The completed form and accompanying material can then be sent straight into ATTTO to be processed.
In late 2007, ATTTO experienced some processing delays due to the volume of applications received. Unfortunately this impacted on the reporting of credit for NZEA students. We have put in place some new measures that will ensure this does not happen again.
Assessment costs
$75 an hour (including GST), plus the cost of any expenses incurred by the assessor. Schools are invoiced at the end of the month.
Minimum assessing charge per trainee is 30mins ($37.50). Thereafter the trainee will be charged a minimum of 30min time slots.
Administration requirements for schools
For information about the administrative requirements for schools, download the Tertiary Education Commission’s
Gateway Handbook for Schools.
Other Gateway resources for schools
You can download the following resources for tutors and students from the Resource Centre section of this website.
- Tutor guides and student workbooks for all relevant unit standards.
- Trainee Evidence Guides - students can use these guides to prepare for workplace assessment.
- Assessment Guides and Assessment Tasks/Activities – available by subscription.
For more information about any aspect of Gateway, please contact:
Willie Toelau
Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Rotorua, Taupo, Bay of Plenty, Hawkes Bay, East Cape.
027 282 5103
Roger Brittain
Taranaki, Manawatu, Wairarapa, Wellington, Nelson/Marlborough, Canterbury, West Coast, Otago.
027 488 5087
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