What is FIT
Passport
The purpose of the FIT Passport document is to enable the student and teachers to keep a record of what learning outcomes have been completed and to what degree they have been accomplished.
There is a page in the Passport for each of the 37 skills which provides a place for the student to describe the activity which has been completed to demonstrate learning of that skill, a place for the supervisor (teacher/workplace supervisor) to “sign off” their agreement that the student has demonstrated the skill and a place to describe what permanent record the student might have as proof that she/he has accomplished that skill. The ICTC Pathways Rubric, which appears at the end of the passport document, is a detailed description of the requirements for acceptably demonstrating mastery of a skill. If you look at the Rubric, you will see that for each skill there are four possible levels of accomplishment:
- Fails to Meet Standard
- Approaches Standard
- Meets Standard
- Exceeds Standard
In order to obtain either of the FIT national certificates only the Meets Standard and Exceeds Standard levels of achievement are acceptable. Once the student has mastered a skill at an acceptable level and has had it verified by a person of authority, it can be checked off the checklist at the front of the passport as completed.
Go to the FIT passport document for more details.
Portfolio
For each competency completed, the student is expected to provide the teacher with a piece of evidence, document, project or other artifact that can verify the competency being “signed off”. The FIT portfolio document gives the student ideas of what might be acceptable.
Examples of the kinds of proof that might be acceptable would be:
- Results of an examination from a school class or other course that relates to the skill standard (with the teacher signing off the passport to indicate that the student has met or exceeded the standard).
- Copy of a project from a class in which the student has demonstrated the skill. This might be in hard (paper) form or on a CD-Rom or other electronic media (in this case the teacher supervising the project would sign off the Passport).
- Letter from a workplace supervisor (a person of authority within the company from which the student is working) indicating that she/he has accomplished the competency under her/his supervision (with that person signing off the Passport).
Generally, any form of documentation that the teacher is willing to accept and for which a person of authority is willing to sign off is acceptable.
Go to the FIT portfolio document for more details related to the Portfolio requirements.