A toolkit for, and case study exploring, a project that placed teacher staff in industry work placements to accrue experience, then cascaded their experiences to colleagues, and ultimately endeavoured to improved students' learning experiences.
Taking a proactive and creative approach that aimed to unlock potential and transform prisoners' lives, this national technical outstanding teaching, learning and assessment (OTLA) project by Weston College Prison Education Service sought to carve a pathway from entry into prison to entry into an apprenticeship on release from prison. The project focused on the hospitality and catering vocational sector.
A case study of a project to develop an innovative, industry-led learning model focused on the development of technical skills for vocational learners in the hospitality industry.
Technical Route - Hospitality and Catering:
One of the barriers to developing maths and English skills during work placement is a lack of awareness and in depth understanding of how maths and English GCSE’s and FS link to occupational areas within the 15 technical routes. These flyers attempt to summarise that mapping. Job roles are considered, recognising the importance of the technical skills that employers need plus promoting maths and English skills under calculation and communication.
Technical Route - Catering and Hospitality :
One of the barriers to developing maths and English skills during work placement is a lack of awareness and in depth understanding of how maths and English GCSE’s and FS link to occupational areas within the 15 technical routes. These flyers attempt to summarise that mapping. Job roles are considered, recognising the importance of the technical skills that employers need plus promoting maths and English skills under calculation and communication.
The Education and Training Foundation have produced a series of session planners to support practitioners teaching in offender learning. The aim of the planners is to embed the use of digital skills and collaborative skills development into their delivery. This zipped file includes session planners for: Art and Design, Construction, Functional English, Functional Maths, Hair and Beauty, Hospitality and Catering, Sports and Fitness.
The Education and Training Foundation, the Adult Learning Improvement Network and vocational instructors in Hull and Humber prisons have created a series of flyers to highlight opportunities that workshops bring to gain skills for employment.
The flyers within this zipped file are: Bicycle Repair, Bricklaying, Cleaning Services, Construction, Engineering, Engineering MultiskillsGraphic Design and Printmaking, Horticulture, Hospitality and Catering, Induction, Painting and Decorating, Plastering and Tiling.
The Education and Training Foundation's offender learning resources are available for download on the Offender Learning Exhibition Website (https://offender-learning.excellencegateway.org.uk). This order form can be used to request printed copies of a wide variety of resources on the website.
This zip file contains the first drafts of fifteen flyers summarising the maths and English dimensions of a variety of technical and vocational areas. They were designed to help providers and employers to embed maths and English skills into their study programmes and work experience placements. Although these are still relevant there are now revised flyers that can be found on the Study Programmes Exhibition Site on the Excellence Gateway.
A research report that explores the effects of the skills required for catering on manual dexterity in learners, including those with dyspraxia.
