Contact:

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Centre for Excellence in Professional Development
(CEPD)
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world
as it is and rise above it. Michael Korda
Contact Fergal Corscadden - Educational
Developer T 44 (0)28 9038 4378 E
f.corscadden_at_stran.ac.uk W http//www.stran.ac.uk
/cetl
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A brief background

• Aspects of 'Learning for Life and Work' become
  part of the statutory curriculum in N.I. from
  September 2006 onwards.
• Forming a compulsory and integral part of
  teaching and learning in Northern Ireland
  schools, Learning for Life and Work
  specifically includes the following elements
• Education for Employability
• Citizenship
• Personal Social and Heath Education
• Home Economics
• This new and exciting area of the N. I.
  curriculum marks a shift in emphasis away from
  over concentration on content, towards a greater
  emphasis on skills development, creativity and
  enterprise.

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Pilot Initiatives, CETL - Phase 1

• There are a number of pilot initiatives in Phase
  1 of CETL
• Dr Brian Cummins, Senior Lecturer, Stranmillis
  University College is currently working with CCEA
  in N.I. on developing new materials for Schools
  based on Enterprise.
• Also working on an evaluation of the From Little
  Acorns project (http//www.rewardinglearning.com/
  fla/) primary education giving children an
  insight into the world of work, also about the
  development of the skills and capabilities
  required in the workplace. New publication due
  this year.
• Through our CETL we aim to devise for
  pre-professionals, situations where school pupils
  can develop enterprise skills Teamwork (PBL),
  Finishing a project highlighting the
  possibility of making a role/job for themselves.
  
• Students at the College will be using a PBL
  methodology supported with Video-case scenarios
  Synchronous collaboration (industry/other
  schools).

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Enterprising, Enterprise

• Working on an Innovative scheme involving
  collaboration between Stranmillis University
  College and Queens University Belfast Centre for
  Excellence in the Creative and Performing Arts
  (NI) at QUB
• To produce simulated recorded video scenes of
  real-world classroom scenarios the focus will be
  on the new GCSE Life Work and the many and
  varied roles that a teacher will be expected to
  facilitate during their time as a professional.
• The emphasis will be on teacher facilitation of
  classroom discussion which forms a key component
  of the new, compulsory qualification from
  September 2006 onwards. We hope to use local
  actors and writers for the role play.

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Next Steps

• Disseminate findings via peer reviewed articles
  for example, Citizenship, Social and Economics
  Education An International Journal Others
• Market video/DVD scenarios to wider U.K market
  (and global).

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