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Colegau Cymru Annual Conference Corporate slide master st May 31 With guidelines for corporate presentations Hazel Israel Senior Project Manager for Skills Development DfES Welsh Government [email protected] ESW: Changes and Challenges Aim: To update Senior Managers regarding where Essential Skills Corporate slide master are currently, where they are going, what the challenges will be With guidelines for corporate presentations and how we might meet these challenges. Objectives: • To provide information regarding recent developments and updated thinking regarding Essential Skills • To clarify concepts associated with models of delivery and staffing • To identify CPD priorities • To explore and define current position regarding challenges – what are we doing well and what do we still need? Essential Skills in the Review of Qualifications FourCorporate themes: slide master With guidelines for corporate presentations 1. To identify the most relevant qualifications and ensure they are available to learners; 2. to ensure that qualifications are trusted and understood; 3. to ensure that the value of qualifications is clear; and 4. to ensure that our qualifications remain fit for purpose. Stakeholder engagement: Headlines Where skills are developed effectively the Essential SkillsCorporate qualifications are valued and perceived to be relevant. slide master With guidelines for corporate presentations However, portfolio assessment can be: • time consuming • at the expense of teaching and learning • open to question in terms of its authenticity, i.e. how much of it is a candidate’s unaided work. • There are also issues of consistency regarding internal assessment and external quality assurance. • Identification of the need for support and CPD for delivery staff. Alternative Assessment Methods Model A Corporate slide master Portfolio and element of external assessment Model B External Assessment Model C Portfolio and controlled task / assessment Model D Controlled task / assessment Model E Controlled task / assessment and element of external assessment With guidelines for corporate presentations Developing Essential Skills Units • Units available on QCF. • Developed in partnership between C&G, Agored and Edexcel. • Rewarding and reporting differentiated attainment addressing learners’ skills gaps. • Supporting personalised learning, building Award, Certificate and Diploma qualifications across the three subjects at different levels. Development of Wales Essential Skills Assessment Tool (WESAT) Need consistent use of reliable and robust tool. Intended benefits for: Corporate slide master • • • • With guidelines for corporate presentations Learners Practitioners Providers Government Procurement 2012 Wider Key Skills Why review? • lack of awareness and understanding Corporate slide master • need to make the skills involved more easily understood With guidelines for corporate presentations Options • review and amend the title of the qualifications to ensure clear and easily understood purpose and content, e.g. Employability Skills, Skills for Work • review and update standards to support a more clearly identifiable sense of progression up through the levels Quality Assurance • Review of Quality Standard • Review of assessment strategy for Essential Skills Continuing Professional Development • • • • • Professional Networks Corporate slide master Practitioner qualifications With guidelines for corporate presentations Essential Skills in the Workplace (ESiW) Essential Skills Practitioner Trainer Group (ESPTG) Tender for Essential Skills Support Programme Models of Delivery What do we mean by: • integrated • contextualised • embedded? Staffing to Develop Essential Skills Key staff roles: • Specialist • Vocational • Support What are we doing well? What do we still need? Corporate slide master With guidelines for corporate presentations Any questions?