In terms of not being employed while completing the course, thee are elements where having work scenarios or specific SOP's would be helpful, however its pretty easy to use previous experience. It would be really helpful if you had some of your old training session plans or outlines with you to re use and re fresh, and if they are industry specific it would mean that you could create training programs you would use in the future.

For the TAE course, I run it a max 4 times a year as its a HUGE amount of work. As the student there is heaps of paperwork to do and having to look at it all is a very time consuming activity! It is a pretty full on course compared with all others in the cert 4 range. I would compare it more with a masters level subject in terms of time needed. It terms of delivery of the same thing, working in vocational education lecturing the same thing only happens each semester or every couple of semesters. so there is not too much repitition and we are always updating our courses and changing activities and keeping things fresh. For workplace training, different staff, countries and work environments keep things interesting and as long as you continuously change and update your programs to keep with industry standards, you probably wont deliver the same thing too often. But yes some days get a bit boring