Workshop information and materials
Our tried and tested materials can be used and adapted to run your own workshops.
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We want to explore what capabilities students need and how they relate to our graduate profile
Name of workshop:
Identifying employability capabilities
About:
This workshop introduces thinking around the future of work. Participants consider the capabilities graduates will need if they are thrive in a rapidly changing world of work.
Length:
1 hour
Who should attend?
Any group of students or staff
Learning outcomes:
- Discuss global trends and their implications for the future of work.
- Identify the capabilities graduates will need if they are to thrive in their future lives and careers.
- Relate capabilities to their institution’s Graduate Profile
- Reflect on their efforts to develop the capabilities “Future-Ready Grads” will need.
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We want to demonstrate that teachers can teach a wide range of capabilities
Name of workshop:
Mission almost impossible? Embedding employability in sessions and courses
About:
Some academics believe that they cannot embed employability related capabilities in their courses. In this workshop participants work together to solve ‘almost impossible’ pedagogical challenges. Participants are introduced to a framework to guide future practice. We’ve tested this workshop, read our blog to find out more.
Length:
2-3 hours
Who should attend?
Experienced teachers and academic developers
Learning outcomes:
- Assess the range, standard, scope and importance of a range of employability capabilities.
- Develop plans for embedding a difficult to teach capability in a session, course or programme.
- Evaluate pedagogical practices for embedding employability capabilities into the curriculum
- Reflect on their own courses in terms of employability capability development.
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- Workshop plan
- Mission Almost Impossible – Presentation Slides
- Capability cards
- Rubric
- Scenarios
- Exercise 3 Design challenge
We want to explore embedding future ready capabilities in our programmes and qualifications
Name of workshop:
Embedding future ready employability capabilities in programmes and qualifications
About:
This workshop takes a whole of programme approach to developing future ready grads. It identifies the issues and shares practices and tools for coordinating between and across courses.
Length:
2 hours
Who should attend?
Academics responsible for programmes, qualifications or majors
Learning outcomes:
- Assess the range and scope of employability capabilities.
- Identify the challenges in providing for coordinated and progressive capability development across the multiple modules/courses that make up a degree.
- Apply a model to introduce change within a programme
- Make strategic and operational plans to embed employability capabilities in programmes
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- Workshop plan
- Embedding Employability in Programmes and Qualifications – Presentation Slides
- Activity cards
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We want to explore the challenges teaching staff face in embedding employability within their courses
Name of workshop:
Challenges in teaching for employability capabilities
About:
This workshop considers the breadth of capabilities future ready grads need and the teaching methods that foster their development. Participants consider the factors supporting and inhibiting effective teaching of employability related capabilities. We’ve tested this workshop, read our blog to find out more.
Length:
1 hour
Who should attend?
Any group of staff who teach or manage courses
Learning outcomes:
- Identify and discuss learning and teaching methods for developing employability capabilities
- Identify forces that facilitate employability teaching
- Identify barriers to developing employability
- Describe their sphere of influence
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We want to embed future-ready capabilities in our university courses
Name of workshop:
Teaching future ready graduates
About:
Participants in this workshop reflect on one of their own courses. They learn about future ready capabilities and how they can be taught. Using tools and frameworks participants work on scenarios and then their own courses. Participants leave the workshop with plans for building their students’ employability capabilities.
Length:
2-3 hours
Who should attend?
Any group of students or staff
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the pedagogical challenge in developing future ready grads
- Describe the 4Es pedagogical framework and contrast it with traditional approaches
- Review their own course against the dimensions of the framework
- Apply the framework to develop relevant, achievable, low risk and impactful improvement plans
- Identify ways to address constraints on the development of employability and future readiness
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We want to explore equity of opportunity in employability development at an institutional level
Name of workshop:
Levelling the employability playing field
About:
This workshop takes a whole institution approach. Taking an equity perspective participants work on ideas to create institutions that recognise diversity and prepare all students for their futures.
Length:
2-3 hours
Who should attend?
University staff involved in teaching or supporting target groups of students
Learning outcomes:
- Identify capabilities that students need for their future lives and careers
- Identify equity issues in institutional approaches to developing students’ employability capabilities
- Adapt existing and design new institution wide approaches to teaching and supporting non-traditional students
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