terry lanagan dts in wdc
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- An Education Authority of Ambition
- 50:50 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 Million 500,000 250,000 125,000 64,000 32,000 16,000 8,000 4,000 2,000 1,000 500 300 200 100 1 7 37 13 How many development agendas are there in Scottish Education at the moment?
- The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet Theodore M. Hesburgh
- Educational Services Vision
- Learning for Life, the vision is:
- To enable everyone in West Dunbartonshire to become
- Successful learners
- Confident individuals
- Responsible citizens
- Effective contributors
- Now and throughout their future lives.
- To achieve this vision, the department is committed to:
- Create and deliver courses, activities and events
- which will motivate and excite learners;
- Develop innovative ways to support learning;
- Value diversity, promote equal opportunities and
- foster inclusion;
- Promote partnership and community participation;
- Value achievement and celebrate success;
- Continually reflect on and aim to improve the
- quality of our services .
- A Thought For Their Future 80% of the jobs that current Primary 1 pupils will do in the future. do not exist ! BT Futurologist 2006
- 'Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results' Albert Einstein
- We can only build a Scotland that is wealthier and fairer, one
that is healthier, safer, stronger and greener, if people are
equipped with the skills, expertise and knowledge for success .
Skills for Scotland A LIFELONG LEARNING STRATEGY Way forward?
Curriculum for Excellence
- Equip young people with the skills they need for tomorrows workforce
- Make sure that assessment and certification support learning
- Allow more choices and chances to meet the needs of individual young people
- To enable young people to flourish in life and work beyond school.
- Skills for Learning, Skills for Life, Skills for Work
- Working in partnership affords young people a broad range of opportunities and scope for greater personalisation and choice, with benefits for both the young person and the partner organisation.
- Working with each other, and with other partners such as parents , employers, public bodies and voluntary organisations , can help schools and other learning providers to make the most of their
- contribution and recognise their part in promoting lifelong learning.
- Building the Curriculum 4
- October 2009
- How do we in West Dunbartonshire work together to help young
people achieve success?
- Working with partnerships
- Flexible Curriculum
- Wide range of experiences
- Support into further and higher Education, Training or Employment.
- Working with partnerships
- Flexible Curriculum
- Wide range of experiences
- Support into Further Education, Training or Employment .
- Delivered through DtS key to delivery in West Dunbartonshire? Four key strands.......
- But.. Is Enterprise in education Embedded in West
Dunbartonshire?
- Definition of embedded?
- inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole
- YES !
- Enterprise in education is integral part of the 21 st century Curriculum in West Dunbartonshire.
- Why?
- Lets look at some of the evidence.......
- the so what? factor.
- The impact of Determined to Succeed in West Dunbartonshire.
- Journey to Excellence Partnership working in West Dunbartonshire
- Partnerships we have developed to improve opportunities for
children and young people
- Colleges/FE/Training providers
- Clydebank and Anniesland Colleges
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Glasgow University
- Strathclyde University
- GTG Training Ltd
- Local authority colleagues
- MCMC Work Experience (Skillseekers & Balloch Country Park);
- MAC Partnership (C-TEC, Choices, Knowetop Farm).
- Community Learning and Development
- Land services
- Leisure Services
- Skill seekers
- Get ready for work
- Outdoor education
- Arts in education cultural co-ordinators
- Libraries
- Museums
- Forward planning and regeneration
- Policy unit
- Countryside ranger service
- Voluntary sector organisations
- Tullochan Trust
- Enable
- Columba 1400
- The Duke of Edinburghs Award Charity
- ASDAN
- Young Enterprise Scotland
- Employers
- Polaroid UK
- Activate
- SDS
- BAE Systems
- Clydebank Rebuilt
- Chamber of Commerce
- Scottish Business in the community
- Credit Union
- National Australia Group
- The Royal Bank of Scotland
- BAM construction
- Work based vocational learning
- Skills for work programme
- 4 years ago 48 young people
- today 800 young people
- 17 options available
- S3,4,5 and 6
- Taster sessions for S2
- Vocational opportunities in West Dunbartonshire
- Construction Access 3/Intermediate 1/ Intermediate 2
- Early Education and Childcare Intermediate 1/ Intermediate 2
- Tourism Scottish Progression Award; Standard Grade C/G level
- Hairdressing Intermediate 1; Intermediate 2
- Hospitality Intermediate 1 ; intermediate 2
- Sport and Recreation Intermediate 1; Intermediate 2
- Motor Vehicle Engineering City and Guilds.
- Psychology - Higher Grade
- Rural Skills Intermediate 1
- Photography Higher Grade
- Beauty and make up
- Employability skills
- Revised work experience programme
- WDC unit developed for programme, personalised programme for young people based on next steps.
- The benefits of the new Employability Skills Programme are:
- More flexibility
- Better timing avoiding exam/prelim times
- The quality of the experience
- Better suited to individual pupils needs
- Strong links to Curriculum for Excellence Building the curriculm4 - providing more personalisation and choice
- Improved partnership working within the employment sector
- working in partnership with the Skillseekers to improve employer engagement and pupil support within the workplace.
- Pupils can gain Employability Skills via:
- The Employability Skills programme
- Participation in Vocational Programmes
- PSHE classes
- Information/workshops provided by Careers Scotland
- Employment e.g. part time jobs
- SQA units such as Enterprise and Employability at Access 3, Int 1 and Int 2 level
- Work shadowing
- voluntary sector
- university tasters
- Learning and Teaching
- Approach to learning and teaching is key to Curriculum for Excellence
- FOCUS in West Dunbartonshire - the HOW!!
- Building the capacity of our teachers to be
- enterprising leaders of learning
- Enterprising
- Active
- Outdoor learning
- Use of Co-operative strategies
- Effective use of Aifl
- Thematic approaches
- Financial education, sustainable development education, creativity, health and well being, ICT rich.
- GLOW
- International dimension
- Fairtrade, twinning projects, hosting international visitors, global citizenship programmes
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- Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers