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    Placing soft skills at the heart of community learning — West Berkshire Council

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    This Placing Soft Skills at the Heart of Community Learning  2017/18 Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment (OTLA 3) project involved five of the unitary Berkshire authorities; West Berkshire, Reading, Bracknell, Wokingham and Slough (including Windsor and Maidenhead). They designed and piloted an impact tool to measure learners' development of soft skills at the start, mid-point and end of accredited and non-accredited adult and community learning courses. The tool was produced in visual and linear formats to meet the needs of different learners.

    Empowering teaching and learning communities to promote equality and celebrate diversity

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    Building on existing policies and procedures they used a combination of approaches, which included opportunities for groups of staff to openly discuss the challenges and opportunities which the general subject of E and D presented. This encouraged them to develop a bank of locally tested and validated resources and reworked ideas for E and D teaching alongside attendance at relevant community events such as College Pride. Learners contributed by exploring how E and D in teaching, learning, and assessment might better reflect their concerns, experiences and gaps in knowledge.

    Enabling distance learning through open platforms — Bristol City Council

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    This Outstanding, Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (OTLA) project from 2016/17 aimed to address the Ofsted recommendation to embed IT (information technology) to support ‘out of classroom’ extension activities to a wide range of community learning courses delivered by Bristol City Council in partnership with North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. The culture within their provision was of staff resistance to the use of IT, due to skills shortfall, as well as the inherent difficulties associated with delivering courses across many disparate venues with mostly self-employed staff.

    Improving TLA practice linked to growth mindset — West Lancashire College

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    In this Outstanding Teaching, Learning, and Assessment project (OTLA 2) in 2016/17 West Lancashire College and Halton Borough Council (HBC) wanted to improve the quality of their teaching, learning and assessment (TLA) in response to Ofsted feedback. HBC also wanted to increase aspiration and motivation in some of their tutors. They used growth mindset techniques to create a cultural shift from which shared organisational objectives were set.

    Evaluating the most effective advice and support mechanisms for progressing an individual from student to classroom volunteer, in the WEA.

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    A research report and poster, exploring a project that sought to enable students to become classroom volunteers through the use of support and monitoring tools, and to evaluate the effectiveness of those tools and their appropriateness within informal adult learning.

    Does teaching literature to ESOL and Functional English learners promote deeper emotional participation of the students in the process of learning a new language?

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    A research report, website, and poster describing a project that sought to measure the impact of book club participation on learner's emotional connections to a text.

    Provider Readiness Report: Assistant Practitioner in Health level 5

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    This Provider Readiness Report provides delivery guidance documents for the apprenticeship standard - Assistant Practitioner in Healthcare (Level 5). The guidance has been developed by training providers (including colleges, independent training providers, and other relevant stakeholders) with the report providing practical insights and guidance to help with planning for delivery and in negotiations with your employers. Last updated December 2016

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