Application
Not Applicable
Prerequisites
It is highly recommended that this unit be assessed in conjunction with the following units: CUVCOR03B Develop, refine and communicate concept for own work CUVCOR08B Produce drawings to represent and communicate the concept CUVCOR11B Source information on history and theory and apply to own area of work. Depending on the context, combined assessment and/or training with a range of other units would also be appropriate, for example: CUVCRS08B Document the work progress CUVCRS14B Prepare, store and maintain finished work. | |
Elements and Performance Criteria
ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA |
1 Prepare and maintain resources for wheel-formed ceramic work. | 1.1 Correctly identify and select tools and materials required for the production of wheel-formed ceramic work. 1.2 Prepare, clean and maintain tools, equipment and materials in accordance with relevant workplaceprocedures and safety requirements. 1.3 Organiseand maintain work space so that it remains clean and safe. 1.4 Store tools, equipment and materials in accordance with relevant workplace and safety requirements. |
2 Explore wheel-formed ceramic techniques to plan work. | 2.1 Assess the capabilities of techniques, tools and materials for wheel-formed ceramic work. 2.2 Use and/or combine different techniques to determine and extend capabilities. 2.3 Determine the conceptual vision for the proposed wheel-formed ceramic work based on exploration of different techniques or from supplied information. 2.4 Establish criteria for the selection of techniques to meet the conceptual vision. 2.5 Select techniques based on the conceptual vision. 2.6 Plan work, identifying work processes and resource requirements. |
3 Realise wheel-formed ceramic work. | 3.1 Organise the resources required for the production of the proposed wheel-formed ceramic work based on the plan of work. 3.2 Safely use and adapt techniques, tools, equipment and materials appropriately to realise the conceptual vision. 3.3 Identify potential different approaches that may enhance the final work and incorporate these into the work process. |
Required Skills
Required skills: literacy skills sufficient to read product safety labels numeracy skills sufficient to calculate quantities and firing times. |
Required knowledge: physical properties and capabilities of the range of materials, tools and equipment used in wheel-formed ceramic work work space requirements for wheel-formed ceramic work including ways of organising and maintaining space ways of exploring, adapting and combining techniques and materials to achieve different effects in wheel-formed ceramic work general knowledge of the formal elements and principles of design and their specific application to the production of wheel-formed ceramic work cleaning and maintenance techniques for tools and equipment used in wheel-formed ceramic work awareness of copyright, moral rights and intellectual property issues general knowledge of the historical and theoretical contexts for wheel-formed ceramic work |
environmental issues associated with the tools and materials used in wheel-formed ceramic work organisational and legislative occupational health and safety procedures in relation to wheel formed ceramic work. |
Evidence Required
The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package. | |
Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit | The following evidence is critical to the judgement of competence in this unit: production of wheel-formed ceramic work which demonstrates a command of selected techniques and which is consistent with the conceptual vision knowledge of materials and tools and how they are used and extended in wheel-formed ceramic work. |
Context of and specific resources for assessment | The assessment context must provide for: evaluation of visual language and technical execution of work pieces produced by the candidate practical demonstration of skills using required tools, equipment and materials to produce more than one piece of wheel-formed ceramic work. |
Method of assessment | Assessment may incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of essential underpinning knowledge, and might include: direct observation of wheel-formed ceramic work in progress questioning and discussion of the candidate's intentions and work verbal and written reports review of portfolios of evidence third party workplace reports of performance by the candidate. |
Assessment methods should closely reflect workplace demands (e.g. literacy) and the needs of particular groups (e.g. people with disabilities, and people who may have literacy or numeracy difficulties such as speakers of languages other than English, remote communities and those with interrupted schooling). | |
Assessment of this unit requires access to the materials, resources and equipment needed to produce wheel-formed ceramic work. |
Range Statement
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included. | |
Tools may include: | brushes, toothbrushes carving tools knives/blades rolling pins or other rollers spatulas tape measures turning tools. |
Materials may include: | glazes other media, e.g. metal, wire, glass, fabric, timber, board, other natural or synthetic materials oxides range of clays. |
Wheel-formed ceramic work may include: | architectural ceramics jewellery platters sculptural work table wear vessels. |
Equipment may include: | banding wheel gas or electric kiln kiln furniture and equipment protective clothing raku kiln wheels for wheel-formed ceramic work wood fired kiln. |
Workplace procedures may relate to: | cost control process-specific procedures recycling |
reporting safety use of materials. | |
Safety requirements would be in accordance with: | Federal, State and Territory legislation, regulations and standards. |
Organisation and maintenance of the work space may relate to: | light process-specific work space requirements ventilation wet and dry areas. |
Assessing the capabilities of the techniques, tools and materials may involve: | producing test pieces or samples systematically testing a range of processes. |
Techniques may include: | applied surface treatment (inlay with other clays, oxides, glazes) centring collaring distortion/exaggeration in wheel thrown forms forming rims and lips making clay appendages, e.g. handles, spouts, knobs, lugs and spouts opening up forms pulling up walls structural and joining works using combined techniques of hand building and wheel thrown forms and different media subtract surface treatments (incising, impressing, stamping, piercing) turning of leather hard forms. |
Extending capabilities of techniques refers to: | exploring the potential of techniques and discovering new ways of using techniques. |
The conceptual vision may be determined by: | elements and principles of design the relationship of the work to a theoretical and historical context the subject matter or theme for the wheel-formed ceramic work, e.g. the body; identity; land and place; political, cultural, social issues; spiritual concerns |
Criteria for the selection of techniques may relate to: | access to materials, tools and equipment for the techniques consistency with the conceptual vision for the proposed wheel-formed ceramic work ease of application of the techniques personal affinity with the techniques. |
Sectors
Not Applicable
Employability Skills
This unit contains employability skills. |
Licensing Information
Refer to Unit Descriptor