VCE VM Units 1 & 2 Personal Development Skills
VCE VM Units 1 & 2 Personal Development Skills
Overview
VCE Vocational Major Personal Development Skills (PDS) takes an active approach to personal development, self-realisation and citizenship by exploring interrelationships between individuals and communities. PDS focuses on health, wellbeing, community engagement and social sciences, and provides a framework through which students seek to understand and optimise their potential as individuals and as members of their community. THIS SUBJECT IS AVAILABLE TO VCE STUDENTS IN 2025
Unit 1 – Healthy Individuals
This unit focuses on the development of personal identity and individual pathways to optimal health and wellbeing.
Areas of Study
- Personal identity and emotional intelligence – explain and discuss key concepts relating to personal identity and emotional intelligence and apply learnt strategies when working independently or collaboratively on a relevant activity.
- Community health and wellbeing – plan and implement an individual or group activity to improve health and wellbeing and evaluate the effectiveness of the activity by using learnt tools and techniques for monitoring progress.
- Promoting a healthy life – analyse the impact of technology on health and wellbeing at an individual and community level, and apply knowledge and skills to plan, implement and evaluate an individual or group health promotion activity.
Unit 2 – Connecting with community
This unit focuses on the benefits of community participation and how people can work together effectively to achieve a shared goal
Areas of Study
- What is community? – describe concepts relating to citizenship and community (local, national and/or global), analyse the factors that influence the formation of community and apply strategies to promote community participation in an individual or group activity.
- Community cohesion – identify issues and challenges within the community, analyse different perspectives of diverse groups and apply problem-solving strategies when working independently or collaboratively on a community-based activity.
- Engaging and supporting community – discuss the concept of engagement as an approach to address community issues, analyse features of effective community engagement and work independently or collaboratively to design, implement and evaluate a community engagement activity.
Forms of Assessment
- a recorded reflection on personal attributes
- a reflective journal
- a case study
- a project plan
- a research task a critical evaluation of an activity or program
- a digital or oral presentation reflecting on activity or program
- annotated photographs
- a visual presentation, such as a graphic organiser, concept/mind map or annotated poster
- an oral, digital or written report
- a record and reflection of guest speaker/s or interview with community member/s
- research task
- an oral, digital or written report
- a case study
- a community engagement plan/ concept map
- a digital, oral, or written presentation
Prerequisites and Corequisites
None.