Learning and Skills Council Skills for Life Quality Initiative 20052006

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1.1.0

• Learning and Skills Council Skills for Life
  Quality Initiative 2005-2006

• Whole Organisation Approach (WOA)
• Session 1 Strategies
• Session 2 Quality
• Session 3 Role of the facilitator
• Session 4 Impact measurement

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Session 1 Strategies

• Aims
• For participants to
• Examine strategies that underpin a successful
  whole organisation approach
• Share lessons learned during the delivery of the
  Skills for Life Quality Initiative 2004-2005
• Explore new strategies in order to work
  effectively with selected organisations in the
  current phase

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Learning objectives

• By the end of the session, participants will
  have
• defined critical success factors evident in
  successful WOAs
• identified the steps in the process to achieve
  cultural change in relation to a WOA
• shared examples of Skills for Life Quality
  Initiative regional achievements during 2004-2005
  in their own region and nationally
• continued

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Learning objectives continued

• reviewed success indicators for leadership and
  management with specific reference to Skills for
  Life
• compared the Skills for Life Quality Initiative
  Impact Measurement criteria and the findings of
  the WOA Pathfinder project
• shared the findings of the Warwick University
  evaluation of the Skills for Life Quality
  Initiative 2004-2005.

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Learning and Skills Council Skills for Life
Quality Initiative 2005-2006

• Aims for 2005-2006
• To develop a professional Skills for Life
  workforce
• To develop a whole organisation approach to
  Skills for Life

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Skills for Life Quality Initiative national
priorities 2005-2006

• Support for developing whole organisation
  approaches
• Embedding Skills for Life across the organisation
• Skills for Life leadership and management
  training
• Regional facilitation and development of the
  facilitator network
• Support for e-learning development
• Support for the interface between Key Skills and
  Skills for Life
• Development of CPD framework including specialist
  Skills for Life advice and guidance
• Dissemination of good practice

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Whole Organisation Approach Definition

• Where literacy, language and numeracy provision
  is central to the
• whole organisation at all levels, ranging from
  strategic leadership
• and management to delivery practice.
• This includes embedding Skills for Life in
  teaching and learning
• programmes across a range of learning aims and
  goals and providing
• all learners with opportunities to progress and
  achieve qualifications.
• These aims can be achieved by reviewing current
  organisational
• structures and procedures, and, if necessary,
  introducing new
• approaches that will embed Skills for Life at all
  levels.

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Models of Good Practice

• Dissemination of good practice based on
  facilitator engagement with organisations during
  2004-2005.

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Success Indicators Skills for LifeQuality
Initiative WOA Checklist 2005-2006

• Senior manager with responsibility for Skills for
  Life
• Skills for Life organisational strategy
• Steering group monitoring cross-organisational
  effectiveness of Skills for Life
• Skills for Life improvement targets
• Skills for Life evidenced in vocational areas in
  SAR
• MIS data used to monitor Skills for Life
  developments and targets
• continued

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Success Indicators Skills for Life Quality
Initiative WOA Checklist 2005-2006 continued

• Criteria for observation of teaching and learning
  includes Skills for Life
• Clear process identified for sharing good
  practice
• Skills for Life central to organisation staff
  development/training plan

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Skills for Life Quality Initiative WOA Criteria
and Achievements 2004-2005

• Additional 43 of providers now have a senior
  manager with responsibility for Skills for Life
• Number of providers with a Skills for Life
  strategy increased from 22 to almost 100
• Skills for Life evidence in self assessment
  processes within vocational areas more than
  doubled
• MIS data used/planned to be used to monitor
  Skills for Life developments in three times as
  many providers
• 98 of providers now have processes or plans for
  processes to identify and share good practice in
  Skills for Life, compared to just 41 prior to
  the 2004-2005 Skills for Life Quality Initiative

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What is happening elsewhere?

• Findings of WOA Pathfinder project
• Currently 23 pathfinders aim is 26 across a
  range of sectors
• Involvement and commitment of SMT crucial to WOA
• Time to change attitudes
• Identification of champion at senior level vital
• Important to engage all staff
• continued

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What is happening elsewhere? continued

• Important to establish internal working group
• Early development of action plan to provide
  strategic focus
• Links with other pathfinders for benchmarks
• Resource appraisal and advice on materials helped
  teachers and managers to make informed decisions
• Effectiveness of buddy systems in embedding
  Skills for Life
• continued

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What is happening elsewhere? continued

• Appointment of member of staff with specific
  brief for embedding
• Creation of new systems and procedures
  interrogation of data
• Importance of training needs analysis/appraisal
  of staff development plans
• Building on other Skills for Life projects
  speeded up WOA process
• Effective dissemination of lessons learned
  critical success factors crucial to maximise
  WOA to Skills for Life across the sectors

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Critical steps to success How do we get where
we want to be?

• Task In small sector specific groups
• Discuss and consider the identified
  sector-specific critical success factors.
• For your context, suggest any additional
  essential steps required to achieve a successful
  WOA, recording this on Handout 3a
• Would you prioritise any of these steps as
  crucial to the development of a WOA in your
  sector?

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WOA The process
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Skills for Life WOA Leadership and Management

• Successful whole organisation approaches are
  underpinned by
• SMT vision, commitment and responsibility
• Highly effective strategic planning
• Skills for Life targets and data management
• Skills for Life professional development plan

continued
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Skills for Life WOA Leadership and Management
continued

• Quality of Skills for Life teaching, learning and
  learner assessment
• Curriculum planning, management and organisation
• Communication and teamwork
• Highly effective quality assurance procedures
• Commitment to and promotion of equality and
  diversity
• Responsiveness to national, regional and local
  learner and employer needs

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University of Warwick external evaluation of
Skills for Life Quality Initiative in YH, SW, EM

• Improved quality of Skills for Life Quality
  Initiative facilitators
• Examples of good practice were evident in
  relation to facilitators providing a high quality
  level of support and advice to providers
• Within a very short time-scale, a large volume of
  visits had been made to providers
• The overall quality of service provided by
  facilitators was 'patchy'
• Recommendations underpin facilitator training

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WHAT still needs to be done?

• Strategies to ensure sustainable development of
  the whole organisation approach and quality
  improvement
• The development of the facilitator role

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