Collaborative Curriculum Design and Delivery

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Collaborative Curriculum Design and Delivery

• Elaine Kwiatek Senior Lecturer Teaching Fellow
  Hazel Powell Lecturer Teaching Fellow

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Background

• Principle of involving people with learning
  disabilities now embodied in policy
• Scottish Executive (2000, 2002)
• National LD strategy (2000)
• NES (2004)

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Learning Disability Team Principles

• Collaborative working
• Involving all stakeholders in the review and
  development of services for people with learning
  disability is good practice.
• Education services should be no different to any
  other service for people with a learning
  disability.
• Enables the best use of skills and expertise.
• Will encourage wide ownership of nurse education.
• Will facilitate good quality and innovative
  educational provision.

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Collaborations

• Learning disability nursing development group
  (LDNDG)
• Stakeholders group

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LDNDGMembership

• Educationalists
• Students
• Learning disability nurses
• Community
• Assessment treatment
• Children's services
• Complex needs
• Specialist nurses

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LDNDGRemit

• To develop LD nursing curriculum
• To explore and share best practice
• To respond effectively to requests from providers
• To enhance partnership working

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LDNDGRemit

• To enhance communication and networking
• To develop provider involvement
• To review existing programme
• To enhance and develop continuing professional
  development

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Work So Far

• Development of conversion course
• BSc Intellectual Disability practice
• MSc Intellectual Disability Practice
• New BN/Dip. HE
• Module development
• Influence National policy

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Stakeholders Group Membership

• People with learning disabilities
• Family carers
• People from LDNDG
• People from
• Voluntary sector
• Private sector
• Local authority

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Stakeholders GroupRemit

• Aims of the group are the same as LDNDG
• But
• Needed to do things differently to communicate
  effectively with people with learning disabilities

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What we did
Stakeholders events SaLT involvement Short
presentations Workshops Capacity building
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Evaluation of Stakeholders Event

• Is this a good way of getting your opinions?
• Did you feel there were enough opportunities for
  you to let us know what you think?
• Did you find it useful to talk to others at the
  event?
• Is this a good way of discussing new ideas?

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Evaluation of Stakeholders Event
Overall how did you rate the conference? Catego
ry Excellent Good OK Poor Content 40 55
0 0 Presentations 33 63 4
0 Written Information 26 67 4
0 Venue/Facilities 33 52 4
0 Food 30 59 7 0 Workshops
59 30 4 0 Overall Impression 37
55 4 0
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Evaluation of Stakeholders Event

• Arrange more please
• Very informative
• Good chance to share thoughts

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Benefits of Collaborative Curriculum Design and
Delivery

• Enjoyment
• Social inclusion
• Learn new skills
• Draws on a wider knowledge base
• Gives a wider perspective
• More likely to get it right

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Benefits of Collaborative Curriculum Design and
Delivery

• Theory practice gap
• Identification of expertise
• Network of people to contribute to delivery
• Better understanding of roles
• Multi-agency working

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Constraints

• Time commitment
• Cost
• Status of the group

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A Model of Exemplary Practice?

• Presentation at NES conference, Carnoustie, Dec
  2004.
• Accepted for publication in Journal of Learning
  Disabilities.
• Request for advice on developing stakeholder
  events from Borders NHS services.
• NES Educational Quality Assurance example of
  exemplary practice (2005)