Workforce and Employer Needs: A Collaborative Solution Andrew Comrie ELRAH Director Barbara Lawson Head of External Liaison Edinburgh’s Telford College Prof Morag Gray Academic Lead BA (Hons) Youth Work Edinburgh’s Telford College Janis Deane BA (Hons) Youth Work Programme Leader Edinburgh Napier University THE PRESENTING TEAM
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Workforce and Employer Needs: A Collaborative Solution
Andrew Comrie ELRAH Director. Prof Morag Gray Academic Lead BA (Hons) Youth Work Edinburgh’s Telford College. Workforce and Employer Needs: A Collaborative Solution. Barbara Lawson Head of External Liaison Edinburgh’s Telford College. Janis Deane BA (Hons) Youth Work - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Workforce and Employer Needs: A Collaborative Solution
Andrew Comrie ELRAH Director
Barbara Lawson Head of ExternalLiaisonEdinburgh’s TelfordCollege
Prof Morag GrayAcademic LeadBA (Hons) Youth WorkEdinburgh’s Telford College
Janis DeaneBA (Hons) Youth WorkProgramme LeaderEdinburgh Napier University
THE PRESENTING TEAM
Part 1: Introduction
ELRAH Director
DelegateQuestions
Presentation Structure
• Introduction
• Background to the Youth Work Programme
• Designing the Youth Work Programme
• Delivering the Youth Work Programme
• Sum Up
A Changing Post-16 Education LandscapeSeptember 2010 - Scottish Government published their pre-legislative White Paper, “ Putting Learners at the Centre: Delivering our Ambitions for Post-16 Education in Scotland” http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/09/15103949/0 •Focus on workforce skills development.•Regional Planning (driven by regional labour market needs).•Collaborative curriculum design and delivery (HEI, Colleges and Employers working more closely in partnership to design and deliver programmes).•No loss of time for learners (especially those moving to degree study having studied HE level programmes in a Scottish College).•New “partnership models” for delivering HE in Scotland.
Helping with the Challenge of Designing Work-based Programmes
• JISC Work-Based Learning Maturity Toolkit: http://www.tinyurl.com/wbl-toolkitused to inform and evaluate the design and delivery of the Youth Work
Programme.
• Partnership development funded by JISC, led by University of Bradford in collaboration with University of Westminster, University of Wales Institute Cardiff and Middlesex University and ELRAH.
Poll Question 1
Part 2: Background to the Youth Work Programme
Barbara Lawson Head of External LiaisonEdinburgh’s Telford College
Background
Youth Work Programme
• New Youth Work Programme developed to illustrate an alternative, collaborative way of delivering HE which is more flexible and responsive to local employer need.
• Articulation is designed in – students can enter at advanced levels of the programme depending on prior qualifications and experience - this was a key aspect for the employer.
Edinburgh City Council
ELRAH
EdinburghNapierUniversity
Edinburgh’s Telford College
Skills for Scotland
Scottish Qualifications Credit Framework
Our Successful Partnership
Successful Partnership Working
PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT
Sue Bruce – Chief Executive, City of Edinburgh Council
Sue Bruce – Chief Executive, City of Edinburgh Council
“By working in partnership we have made best use of our resources and produced a very cost effective course, grounded in practice and accessible to a group of staff who now have the opportunity to access this excellent professional training.”
Christine Mackay – Edinburgh City Council Community Learning and Development (CLD) Manager
Christine Mackay – Edinburgh City Council Community Learning and Development (CLD) Manager
“The development of the work-based Youth Work Degree has been an important development for us.Working with Edinburgh Napier University and Edinburgh’s Telford has been a very positive experience – our secondment of an experienced youth worker to the qualification design team has ensured that the content reflects the needs of the field and core competencies which was invaluable for us and great professional development for her.Developing this qualification has helped us ensure we train work-based assessors who will be evidencing those competences and this has been really worthwhile”
Gavin Crosby – Edinburgh City Council Youth Work Strategy Implementation Manager
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfsdSMxzo1s
Question time
Part 3: Designing the Youth Work Programme
Prof. Morag GrayAcademic Lead, BA Youth WorkEdinburgh’s Telford College
Collaborative Development of Programme
• Learning gap expressed by Edinburgh City Council
• CLD competencies & National Occupational Standards for Youth Work
• Employer Expert Team
• Potential Students
• Module Content
• Stage alignment and integrity
• Delivery and assessment strategies
• Collaborative programme Documentation
• Cohesive team reflecting partnership ‘defended’ programme
• Commended by validation panel for obvious close working relationships
PlanDesign Build Test Validation
Sept 2010
May 2011
Start September 2011
Programme Structure
1 year 3 months
1 year 3 months
6 months
9 months1 Year
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
This course is perfect for me otherwise I would have to leave my job. What would I do if I failed the course? I would have no job.
This course is perfect for me otherwise I would have to leave my job. What would I do if I failed the course? I would have no job.
Question time
Part 4: Delivering the Youth Work Programme
Janis Deane Programme LeaderEdinburgh Napier University
Delivering the Youth Work Programme
• Community of practice and peer support• Blended learning and the constructivist delivery
model• E-learning and the 3 major components of the
online environment: activities, resources and supports (Oliver & Herrington 2001)
Delivering the Youth Work Programme: Pre-entry and induction
Delivering the Youth Work Programme:Blended and online learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=314c13vocZE
Delivering the Youth Work Programme:Student voice
Delivering the Youth Work Programme:E-learning
Moule’s E-learning ladder (page 41 at the link below) offered a conceptual model for planning e-learning approaches across the programme.
Moule, P. (2007) Challenging the 5 stage model for e- learning: a new approach ALT-J Research in Learning Technology 15 (1) pp37-50 [internet] available at http://repository.alt.ac.uk/713/1/ALT_J-Vol15_No1_2007_Challenging_the_five-stage_mod.pdf
Delivering the Youth Work Programme:Example of online learning activity
Discussion posting 2 – Critical Incident Analysis
# Look back at the Unit 1 week 2 reflection material and the reflective models
reading in particular.
# Using a model of reflection of your choice, undertake a critical incident
analysis of a situation or event at work or in your personal life. This can be a
small but significant event and need not be a crisis or even negative. Be careful
with confidential information e.g. clients’ or colleague’s names!
# Write this up as a 300 word (maximum) discussion posting and make
at least 2 responses to other students of 50 words total. This is worth10% of the
module mark and due in week 7.
Delivering the Youth Work Programme; brief extract from online discussion posting