A collegiate approach

The Communication and English teaching team work very well as a team. Ideas are exchanged both formally and informally. Team meetings are held on a regular basis and there is a rotating minute taker.

All members of the team acknowledge the necessity for high standards and standardisation and a robust Internal Verification procedure is adhered to.

Lecturers regularly speak with tutors, Senior Lecturers and/or Department Heads of the vocational subject they are teaching. This is important to ensure students are assessed on relevant areas of learning. This can be content that is vocationally relevant or addresses a soft skills remit, namely developing employability, vocational, sustainability or citizenship skills. 

A standby notification sheet was created by the HOS to evidence class cover and is a formal way of noting what learning has occurred in classes covered.

Members of the teaching team have delivered presentations  to outline innovative practices within the curriculum.

A Good Practice ‘think tank’ was put together by the Senior Lecturer and a meeting was attended by thirteen colleagues from the faculty. Three presentations were delivered and minutes and PP slides from these talks are held in a folder on the shared drive.

The team recognise that over assessment of learners is not productive and look for ways to integrate summative instruments of assessment where appropriate. A 'curriculum planning team meeting' proforma was devised to keep records of discussions with colleagues cross college. This was recognised as good practice in two EV reports.