Role of the Development Officers Curriculum for Excellence

Strategic developments

Early stages of implementation College management restructure Issues within LEA College 2012 refurbishment project

Cross-College working party Established to ‘develop a College response and position with regard to Curriculum for Excellence’ Reported to the Senior Management Team in March 2010 Its recommendations are being considered in forming a strategy for CfE

Confident Practitioner programme Alignment of the Annual Course Review process with the principles of CfE Policy and strategy development Integration of core skills/ integrated assessment

Raising the profile of CfE CfE included as a standard item on the agenda of the Learning and Teaching Committee – Committee has a route to the Board of Management Aberdeenshire Council Senior Phase Working Group – Aberdeenshire schools and College work collaboratively

Engagement with CfE across College Personal Development Planning/ tutorial programme – Learners plan learning and track achievements Transition links with schools – Enables monitoring and planning of support required for effective progress

Integrated assessment – Core Skills integrated with subject specific units Multi-disciplinary approach – Towards Employment group Rural Skills – Outdoor learning, building resilience, use of discovery skills, encouraging responsibility in learning

Citizenship and Enterprise – Care and Hair & Beauty fund raising and enterprise activities Employability – Tutorial programme, team working, CVs, job applications, development of ‘soft skills’ Professional dialogue – Self-evaluation, Annual Course Reviews, Team Meetings

Continuing Professional Development 90+ staff have attended CfE related events Links with other North East colleges – Sharing training opportunities, ideas and practice More coherent approach to staff development encouraged – Cascading information from CPD events, sharing across college – Targeted use of CPD opportunities to maximise impact

Potential impact on learner experience Engagement with the underlying principles of the CfE will – Promote engagement of learners in their own learning – Raise motivation levels – Develop confidence – Support progression

Examples demonstrate the skills being developed across areas of the college Recognition that a strategy to make CfE more coherent is necessary