Better Practice
Better Practice
Introduction
Better Practice – Practical Strategies for Developing Excellence in Careers Education was first published in 2001.
It has now been completely re-written. Better Practice – a guide to delivering effective career learning 11-19 has been edited by Janet Donoghue with support from Anthony Barnes and Kath Wright.
Contributors include Chris Aylward, Anthony Barnes, Janet Donoghue, Andy Griffith, Claire Nix, Liz Paisley, Chris Thomas, Andrew Walkling and Kath Wright. The publication has been funded jointly by the DCSF, the Advisers and Inspectors for Careers Education (AICE) and the Association for Careers Education and Guidance (ACEG).
Printed copies of Better Practice are available Free of Charge from VT Lifeskills, First Floor, 24 West Street, Fareham, Hampshire PO16 0LF. Tel: 01329 229150. Fax: 01329 229159. Email: sales@vtlifeskills.co.uk
Chapter overviews
| 1.Check out the essentials |
Introduction to the resource with a summary of the principles supporting continuous improvement.
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| 2. Personalise career learning |
To help practitioners apply the principles of personalised learning to careers programmes. |
| 3. Be realistic about career learning and development |
To help practitioners reflect on the assumptions they make about models of career learning and development and what happens in reality, and use the outcomes to develop their provision and practice. |
| 4. Motivate and interest learners |
To help practitioners identify motivational challenges and offer ideas and activities that will help to boost young people’s interest and motivation in career learning sessions. |
| 5. Test different delivery methods |
To help practitioners appreciate the full range of curriculum and learning opportunities and approaches that are available and identify and select those that fit learner needs and local circumstances. |
| 6. Focus on individual progression |
To help practitioners enhance individual progression in career learning. |
| 7. Tell learners how they are doing |
To help practitioners identify and take advantage of formal and informal opportunities for assessing learning to support individual progression. |
| 8. Focus on ability |
To help practitioners enhance their provision and practice in relation to the range of special needs, learning difficulties and disabilities.
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| 9. Promote equal opportunities |
To help practitioners tackle equal opportunities issues and promote equality of opportunity as an integral part of careers work. |
| 10. Be creative with ICT |
To help practitioners make effective use of ICT within careers education. |
| 11. Make the Links with IAG' |
To help practitioners make effective use of young people’s informal learning in careers education programmes. |
| 12. Access the community |
To help practitioners make effective use of partnership opportunities locally and elsewhere.
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| 13. Involve young people |
To help practitioners involve young people in the development, planning, delivery, monitoring, review, evaluation and improvement of careers programmes. |
| 14. Evaluate your impact |
To help practitioners develop workable evaluation systems and use the outcomes to enhance provision and practice.
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| Better practice - whole document and cover /contents |
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Feedback
Please send you feedback to: janet.donoghue@tiscali.co.uk
We welcome:
- comments on how you are using Better Practice
- feedback on any of the chapters
- supplementary materials that could go on cegnet
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Teaching & Learning
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Careers IAG
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Professional Development
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