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Managing Work Experience

Vocational learning offers young people a diverse range of options to better prepare them for the workforce and further education. The government emphasizes that all schools must provide work-related opportunities, often collaborating with local colleges. A structured, whole-center approach ensures involvement from governors, staff, and parents, facilitating changes in curriculum, timetables, and teacher training. By fostering relationships with employers, schools can enhance students' vocational experiences, promote mutual benefits, and better align education with industry needs.

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Managing Work Experience

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  1. Managing Work Experience

  2. What does vocational learning mean?

  3. What does the government say about vocational learning? “We should be offering young people a wide range of options” “We need to better prepare young people for the world of work and further study” “We expect all schools to offer work-related opportunities to their pupils, often in partnership with local colleges”

  4. Vocational learning - in practice: the whole centre approach Experience has suggested we should: Avoid Bolt on experience - that have no links elsewhere Ensure A coherent structured framework is in place

  5. The whole centre approach: A coherent structured framework? • Ensuring involvement of all: governors, management, staff, students and parents • Need to develop school/college policies • Changes to the curriculum offer • Changes to timetables

  6. The whole centre approach: a coherent structured framework? • Detailed planning - Year plans assessments schedules, schemes of work. • Planned opportunities for visits/work placement • Generating resources / making links - co-ordinated approach • Updating Teacher’s vocational knowledge - teacher placements, events, visits

  7. Improving the vocational context - who can help? EBLOs (EBPs) Chamber of commerce Dept Trade & Industry LSDA NTOs Careers Health and Safety exec

  8. How can employers help?

  9. Providing relevance Role play / in tray exercises (on or off site) • More realistic if employer / adult other than teacher can present the exercise. • Problem solving work set by a company / organisation, outcomes reviewed by company / organisation.

  10. Setting up and maintaining links Points to consider: • Make use of existing resources • Identify key sources and organisations who can provide addresses and phone numbers • Avoid inundating the same business with too many requests

  11. Setting up and maintaining links Points to consider: • Be clear exactly about what you need from the business • Don’t expect too much too soon • Try to think of some mutual benefit that could be provided by the link

  12. Benefits for business • Help develop relationships with students who may become future employees • Allow them to “shape” the curriculum through learning materials, contributions to assignments • Raise the profile of the business organisation

  13. Benefits for the businesses • Supplement own training and development programmes • Enable employees to enhance their professional development • Provide insight into vocational qualifications

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