Auditing ESDGC in Work Based Learning

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Auditing ESDGC in Work Based Learning

• Quality Improvement Fund Project
• Provider Case Study Coleg Llandrillo

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Quality Improvement Fund Project
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QIF Report Assembly website
Website address http//wales.gov.uk/topics/educat
ionandskills/policy_strategy_and_planning/raisingq
ualityandstandards/qualityimprovement/qif/teaching
andlearning/llandrillo/?langen
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Aims

• To raise awareness of ESDGC
• To identify the extent to which ESDGC was
  addressed within WBL at Coleg Llandrillo
• To disseminate areas of good practice through a
  conference.

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Process

• Team put into place
• researchers were insiders who had a great deal of
  WBL experience.
• Questionnaire produced to probe level of
  integration within ESDGC key concepts.
• piloted with WBL Business team
• any misunderstandings ironed out
• questionnaire rolled out to all WBL departments.

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Process

• Gathered information through team meetings with
  various WBL departments - essential component
• face to face contact with teams to explain and
  encourage completion of questionnaire.
• attending team meetings and making contact in
  person
• name to a face rather than via email.  
• a specific person to deal with in each team - a
  contact to make sure questionnaires were being
  completed.
• (Feedback from other providers stated this was a
  problem they had encountered as they had done
  everything via email, so no one took the
  responsibility of responding to them!)

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Process

• Conference organised to share findings and good
  practice.
• Beneficial inviting other providers as well as
  internal staff to share best practice.
• Delegates commented positively on the fact that
  employers were involved demonstrating use of
  ESDGC in employment (Rehau).
• Made the subject of ESDGC much less scary than
  originally thought by delegates.
• Made staff think about ESDGC in their 'whole'
  lives rather than just at work.

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Audit Findings

• Initially - little understanding of the concept
  of ESDGC.
• BUT departments were implementing parts of it
  without being fully aware that they were actually
  doing it during the course of taking learners
  through a full NVQ framework!
• The key factor that emerged throughout the entire
  research process was that ESDGC is widely
  integrated throughout WBL but it was yet to be
  quantified.

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Outputs (Available on Moodle Log in as Guest)

• DVD of the conference
• speakers and audience responses - allows a visual
  overview of how the research was disseminated
• Presentations and Resource Materials from
  speakers
• dependant on area of WBL each presentation
  highlights areas of good practice and areas where
  ESDGC can be embedded
• Questionnaire
• can be used by any area/organisation to ascertain
  the level of integration of ESDGC in Work based
  learning
• Questionnaire analysis
• shows the levels of good practice across a broad
  range of WBL departments

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Whats on Moodle?

• Conference Presentations
• Introduction and Ice breaker
• Rehau (employer)
• ESDGC in Technology and SD project in Rhyl
• ESDGC within Enterprise
• ESDGC within Construction
• ESDGC within Business (AAT)
• ESDGC within Health Care
• Areas where ESDGC can be developed Practical
  solutions
• Conference Video (DVD of the conference)

• Conference Supporting Material
• ESDGC - What is it?
• Key Concepts - Definitions, Outcomes, Activities
• Sample Induction Pack insert
• Sample Induction Activity
• Integration, Project Work and Themes
• Review Activities
• Useful websites and resources
• Common Understanding - English and Cymraeg
• Questionnaire and Questionnaire analysis
• Conference evaluation spreadsheets

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Moodle Website Log in as Guest
http//moodle.llandrillo.ac.uk/login/index.php
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Select Planning Standards
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Select ESDGC Conference
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Questionnaire devised for Audit

• Select
• 14 Conference Resources
• WBL Audit Questionnaire
• (Opens in new window)
• Select Open to view

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Audit Questionnaire Devised around the original
9 key concepts could be adapted to reflect the 7
key themes.
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Generic strengths

• Commitment from Senior Management.
• discussed at various stages in SMT meetings.
• SMT invited to and attended the conference.
• embedded from the top down.
• Process
• Enabled analysis of where ESDGC is being embedded
  and where strengths and weaknesses are
  throughout each department.
• Highlighted areas of best practice enabled
  identification of various speakers to disseminate
  at conference.
• Strong method of collecting relevant data
  questions asked were directly linked to how an
  assessor may relate to learner during NVQ
  assessment.
• Enables managers and staff to plan an integration
  strategy based on concrete evidence.

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Generic strengths

• Stimulated thought and provoked new concepts of
  how to develop ESDGC within the WBL curriculum.
• Conference evaluation
• ESDGC knowledge at beginning of conference and
  again at the end to gauge how much they had
  learnt during the event
• significant increased understanding
• Whole project very successful . it will take
  time to see how the ideas that were generated can
  be sustained and developed over time.

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Further embedding of ESDGC

• Incorporating ESDGC in weekly meetings and ESDGC
  champion selected.
• Many departments are looking for materials on
  ESDGC to incorporate within a key skill or form
  the basis of a key skills project.
• Allowing more time for ESDGC discussion during
  eight week review sessions.
• Integrating ESDGC into technical certificate.
• Further concentration of ESDGC within ERR.
• Integrated within staff development.

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Key Contacts

• William Boulton/Suzanne Profit
• Job Title ESDGC coordinators
• Telephone [phone] Ext 201
• Email w.boulton_at_llandrillo.ac.uk or
  s.profit_at_llandrillo.ac.uk
• Or
• James Nelson/Julie Hanson-Williams
• Job Title Head of Quality and Performance/Curricu
  lum Manager
• Telephone[phone] Ext 365
• Email j.nelson_at_llandrillo.ac.uk or
  j.hanson-williams_at_llandrillo.ac.uk

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Questions?