This project looked at how task-based learning (TBL) might effect an immersive, productive and motivating experience for learners and promote the most in-demand common work skills such as problem-solving, collaborating and analysing.
Using participatory approaches in community based English coversation groups.
A 'fast track' method of delivery for the Level 2 Functional Skills curriculum.
Encouraging vocational students to improve their literacy through a tailored Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) programme.
This study explored the potential tension that exists between current funding and quality systems and realistic progression rates in ESOL.
This guide is one of three guides commissioned by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) and produced by touchconsulting Ltd as part of the #StudyGood programme (2019-2020).
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 exploring a project to embed a sustainable and aspirational culture which improved teaching practice, and to develop a small, grass roots study that could be used to inspire staff to further develop positive outcomes by focusing on developing growth mindsets
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.
A case study exploring a project that sought to explore how behavioural sciences could support teaching, learning and assessment, i.e. if a small, simple intervention could have significant positive impact, and to effectively build an evidence-base related to this through robust testing
