Promoting Good Practice in Enterprise in Education

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Promoting Good Practice in Enterprise in Education

• Excellence and the six point scale
• Messages from Improving Scottish Education
• Key features of Skills for Work Pilot
• HMIE task evaluating enterprise in education

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Excellence and the six point scale

• Journey to Excellence launched 21 March 2006
• Illustrates the progression from good to
  excellent
• Excellence in Enterprise the role of enterprise
  in A Curriculum for Excellence
• HMIE website information on six point scale
• The challenge

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Messages from Improving Scottish Education (1)

• Education authorities and schools have also been
  encouraged to address cross-curricular aspects
  such as education for enterprise and citizenship.

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Messages from Improving Scottish Education (2)

• Schools increasingly understand the potential
  impact of enterprise in education on young
  peoples experiences However there remains a
  need to develop more opportunities for pupils,
  and more varied learning and teaching approaches
  which develop pupils enterprise skills in both
  primary and secondary contexts.

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Skills for Work update05/06 and 06/07

• Currently involving over 1100 pupils (gt4000)
• construction crafts at Intermediate 1 (Int 2)
• early education and childcare at Intermediate 1
  and 2
• financial services at Intermediate 2 and
• sport and recreation at Intermediate 1 (Int 2)
• Intermediate 1 Rural Skills and Hairdressing
• Access 3 Practical experiences construction and
  engineering

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Skills for Work issues

• Selection
• Timetabling
• Communication including reporting progress
• Employability skills
• Partnership evaluation
• Progression

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HMIE inspectionEvaluating Enterprise in
Education (EVALEINE)

• Random sample of around 40 centres 06/07
• Pre-school, primary, secondary, special and
  community learning and development
• How good is our school at enterprise in
  education? used as basis for evaluations
• Report published autumn 2007