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Structure Units Differentiation Support
EMPLOYABILTY EMPLOYABILTY
STRUCTURE OF AWARD
Mandatory:
Preparing for Employment: First Steps 10 hrs
Building Your Employability Skills 20 hrs
Optional:
Responsibilities of Employment 10 hrs
Dealing with Work Situations 10 hrs
Features of the Employability AwardFeatures of the Employability Award
Designed to be flexible Learner focus Capture smaller chunks of learning No external assessment Suitable for a range of learners
Preparing for Employment : First StepsPreparing for Employment : First Steps
Learners will think about their past and present experiences to identify skills, knowledge, interests etc.
Based on their review, learners will draw conclusions about how their skills, qualities and interests can help them to enter the world of work
Learners will think about what they want
from a job, what types of job fit with what they want and what they will need to be able offer to get and keep a job.
Preparing for Employment : First Steps
Review past and present experience
Draw conclusions on how your past and present experience can help you enter to the world of work
Find out about yourself and the world of work
Building Your Employability SkillsBuilding Your Employability Skills
Learners will use a range of sources to find out about jobs available
They will think about which jobs would suit them in relation to their skills, knowledge etc and which employers may have suitable jobs.
Learners will practise skills such as contacting an employer, completing an application form, preparing a CV, taking part in an interview
Building Your Employability Skills
Find information about employment
opportunities that may be suitable for
you
Practise the skills you will need to use
to apply for a job
Responsibilities of EmploymentResponsibilities of Employment
Learners will identify their responsibilities as employees. They will also identify how they should be treated by an employer when they are in the workplace
Learners will draw conclusions about the differences between how they should behave in the workplace and other places they know of
Learners will identify types of behaviour which are unacceptable in the work place. They will also draw conclusions about possible consequences of such behaviour.
Responsibilities of Employment
Identify how employers will expect
you to behave at work and how they
should treat you
Identify what might happen to you if
you do not act in the way an employer
expects
Dealing with Work SituationsDealing with Work Situations
Learners will think about the different types of people they could be working with.
They will think about how to behave towards other people at work and how other people should behave towards them
Learners will learn how to discuss a work related task with a colleague. They will learn how to deal with conflict and they will draw conclusions about the consequences of not dealing with situations at work in an acceptable way
Dealing with Work Situations
Know how to interact with others at
work
Develop skills you will need to cope
with situations you could meet at work
The Employability Award can help learners to ….The Employability Award can help learners to ….
reflect on their own achievements recognise the value of these achievements in
gaining employment develop the skills needed to find suitable
employment develop the attitudes and behaviours necessary
to sustain employment make progress towards the four capacities
DifferentiationDifferentiationPrinciple SCQF level 3 SCQF level 4
Support: learners will work with Directive support, ie the teacher/lecturer will issue explicit instructions
Support, ie the teacher/ lecturer will offer advice
Level of participation: learners will Participate in, ie agree to ideas, suggestions and plans
Contribute to, ie offer some ideas and/or suggestions
Level of understanding: learners will show
Basic knowledge, ie a small number of key facts
Basic knowledge of a number of key points some of which will be factual
Complexity of tasks: learners will be involved in activities which are
Simple, ie routine and with which the learner may be familiar
Straightforward, ie contain some routine elements
Level of maturity displayed: candidate will
Take account of some identified consequences of action
Identify and/or take account of some of the consequences of action/ inaction
SupportSupport
External verification Assessment Support Packs Future?