Welsh Baccalaureate: High Level Model Pan Wales Hairdressing and Beauty conference Presentation Version 2.11

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Welsh Baccalaureate: High Level Model

Pan Wales Hairdressing and Beauty conference

Presentation Version 2.1

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Revised Welsh Baccalaureate

Strengths- What works well• Emphasis on skills including literacy, numeracy and employability skills• The Core offers enriching experiences that contribute to a broad and

well-rounded education (enterprise activity and community participation for example)

• Individual Investigation, encouraging independent study and a range of research, thinking and communication skills

• Wales, Europe and the World - where delivered well it is popular, innovative and exciting

• Use of internationally recognised stand-alone qualifications • Academic and vocational pathways lead to the same qualification• Widespread recognition as an entry qualification for Higher Education


What we’ve learnt

Concerns- What isn’t working • Assessment of skills – method is too burdensome• Duplication of learning or assessment between stand alone

qualifications and the Core• Varied quality of delivery of the Core• Questions about value of the language element• Lack of grading• Many parents/learners and employers don’t understand

structure, content or purpose


What are the key changes?

• Retain strengths of current model but address weaknesses

• A new emphasis on skills development: literacy, numeracy and other skills for work and higher education

• An assessment model that is purposeful, clear, integrated with learning, through the use of ‘challenges’

• More rigorous, with more robust quality assurance


What are the key changes? Cont’d

•Grading of the challenges and an overall grade

• To be universally adopted by schools and colleges from Sept 2015

•Develop an engaging framework for learners to develop world class skills


What are World Class Skills?

‘In the future, creativity, the ability to think laterally, adaptability and other ‘transversal’ skills will be valued more than the specific bodies of knowledge that schools have traditionally taught.’

European Commission, Education and Training Key Competences


World Class Skills – cont.


What are the skills?

Literacy

Numeracy

Digital Literacy

Critical Thinking and Problem solving

Planning and Organisation

Creativity and Innovation

Personal Effectiveness


High level model


Core assessed through Challenges

CommunityChallenge

Enterprise and Employability

Challenge

Global CitizenshipChallenge

Individual project

Example – actively helping the school/centre community or local community

Example - plan and run a team Enterprise , and/or work experience

Example – work on a problem related to issues such as sustainable food, recycling, citizenship/democracy

Example – learners demonstrate their own skills (maybe all 7) to produce an artefact or dissertation– 3000 -5000 words at Advanced level


Examples of organisations currently offering challenges or competitions

Guiding young people to start up



Next steps

• Develop detail, learning outcomes, grading structure, taught content• Decide the curriculum time needed – one GCSE/A

level equivalent?• Develop more detail on assessment – what it will be

based on, who will do it, Quality Assurance• We and WJEC will work with stakeholders to

develop support/CPD and resources etc.• Online stakeholder survey on implementation


Q&A

•What sort of Challenges do you do already?

•What could you do with these Challenges?

•What support will your sector require to deliver challenges?

Documents

Welsh Baccalaureate: High Level Model Pan Wales Hairdressing and Beauty conference Presentation Version 2.11