Enterprising Colleges
Sally Dicketts: Principal
Twenty like minded colleges who want to transform themselves to help students learn better and become more employable
Gazelle Group of Colleges
World changing place
Employment will be different and unknown
So we will now need to demonstrate broad portfolio of personal and professional capabilities to engage effectively with others to create value
Agile colleges for agile learners
Brain
Motivation
Emotional intelligence
Learning requires:
The understanding of how our brain works and how we learn is changing!
Consistent way of responding to the experiences of our lives. It is governed by specific, identifiable brain circuits and can be measured using objective laboratory methods.
Emotional style:
Resilience : how slowly or quickly you recover from adversity
Outlook : how long you are able to sustain positive emotion
Social intuition : how adept you are at picking up social signals
Emotional style comprises 6 dimensions. They reflect the discoveries of modern neuro-scientific research:
Self-awareness : how well you perceive bodily feelings that reflect emotions
Sensitivity to Context : how good you are at regulating your emotional responses to take into account the context you find yourself in
Attention: how sharp and clear your focus is
The Brain has a property called neuro-plasticity the ability to change its structure and patterns of activity in significant ways not only in childhood but also in adulthood and throughout life.
Purpose
Autonomy
Mastery
Motivation
Introduced– 4:1:1
Learning cycle
Flip teaching
Learning companies
So what does this mean to our college:
A new curriculum paradigm
• Re-invigorate teaching & learning and improve the student experience
• A vehicle to bring a stronger enterprise and employability focus to our curriculum and establish a differentiated competitive advantage.
Why review the curriculum model
• Support improvement to student satisfaction, student attendance, student retention and achievement
• Seeks to maintain high levels of student supported guided learning whilst reducing overall costs in line with Government funding cuts
Why review the curriculum model
What is it?
Which areas are running the
• Caring & Health
• Engineering
• Business & ICT
• Creative Arts
• Hair, Beauty, Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
• Leisure, Sports & Public Services
Learning Zones
Week 6 – Enterprise & Employability
The Enterprise Cycle
If Enterprise is central to the 4one1 model and key to students developing employability skills, we must live by our college values of innovate inspire and respect.
SweetFE represents the difference between running enterprise courses and embracing a business enterprise culture and inspiring entrepreneurship in staff and students.
Shortlisted for the Award in Outstanding Entrepreneurship in
Learning and Skills
Learning Companies to which students will be recruited on learning contracts, combining paid work with practice-based education and a variety of personal and team challenges.
Students will be encouraged to negotiate their own journeys through these opportunities, as will be necessary throughout their working careers. Their experiences will build a foundation of entrepreneurial capabilities and achievements, empowering them to pursue successful employment or business venture
Entrepreneurial Colleges, and the Learning Companies that they operate, are designed to mirror the networked, collaborative world that they are preparing their students for.
Journey from dependant learner to autonomous employee
Learning;Students learn skills and knowledge through via 21st Century Learning
Coaching;Learners are supported by learning coaches to stretch their learning beyond their current horizons and develop semi independance
Practicing;Learning practice the application of skills and knowledge by working in learning companies and develop enterprise and employability by contributing to real business success
Being;Learners become paid employees of a learning company and achieve mastery, autonomy and purpose
THANK YOU
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