Transcript Role of the Development Officers

Role of the Development Officers
Curriculum for Excellence
Strategic developments
Early stages of implementation
• College management restructure
• Issues within LEA
• College 2012 refurbishment project
Cross-College working party
• Established to ‘develop a College response and
position with regard to Curriculum for
Excellence’
• Reported to the Senior Management Team in
March 2010
• Its recommendations are being considered in
forming a strategy for CfE
Confident Practitioner programme
• Alignment of the Annual Course Review
process with the principles of CfE
• Policy and strategy development
• Integration of core skills/ integrated
assessment
Raising the profile of CfE
• CfE included as a standard item on the
agenda of the Learning and Teaching
Committee
– Committee has a route to the Board of
Management
• Aberdeenshire Council Senior Phase Working
Group
– Aberdeenshire schools and College work
collaboratively
Engagement with CfE across College
• Personal Development Planning/ tutorial
programme
– Learners plan learning and track achievements
• Transition links with schools
– Enables monitoring and planning of support
required for effective progress
• Integrated assessment
– Core Skills integrated with subject specific units
• Multi-disciplinary approach
– Towards Employment group
• Rural Skills
– Outdoor learning, building resilience, use of
discovery skills, encouraging responsibility in
learning
• Citizenship and Enterprise
– Care and Hair & Beauty fund raising and
enterprise activities
• Employability
– Tutorial programme, team working, CVs, job
applications, development of ‘soft skills’
• Professional dialogue
– Self-evaluation, Annual Course Reviews, Team
Meetings
Continuing Professional
Development
• 90+ staff have attended CfE related events
• Links with other North East colleges
– Sharing training opportunities, ideas and practice
• More coherent approach to staff development
encouraged
– Cascading information from CPD events, sharing
across college
– Targeted use of CPD opportunities to maximise
impact
Potential impact on learner experience
• Engagement with the underlying principles of
the CfE will
– Promote engagement of learners in their own
learning
– Raise motivation levels
– Develop confidence
– Support progression
• Examples demonstrate the skills being
developed across areas of the college
• Recognition that a strategy to make CfE more
coherent is necessary