Developing Employability Capabilities in Education Programs

This workshop focuses on embedding employability skills in educational programs, exploring the needs of future graduates, and implementing strategies to enhance their employability. Participants will assess capabilities, address challenges, and formulate plans to integrate essential skills into curricula effectively. The workshop also emphasizes transformational teaching, pedagogical frameworks, and strategies to develop transferable skills among learners.

• Employability skills
• Educational programs
• Future graduates
• Development strategies
• Transferable skills

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1. Embedding employability in programmes and qualifications Add presenters Conference name, location Date 1

2. Overview Introduction Activity 1 Exploring the capabilities graduates need Activity 2 The challenges in providing for coordinated progressive development of capabilities Activity 3 Applying a model and developing strategies Close 2

3. Learning outcomes By the end of this workshop participants will be able to: 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 3

4. Activity 1. What capabilities do future ready grads need? Creative 4

5. Teaching a shift in emphasis Transformational teaching Principled Ethical and professional Hard to teach Leaders Emotionally intelligent Becoming Globally minded Open minded Creative Proactive Independent thinkers Doing Culturally competent flexible Problem solvers Critical thinkers Know the theories Knowing Easy to teach Know the facts Easy to forget Become out-dated Hard to forget Last a life-time 5

6. A pedagogical framework for developing employability capabilities Students engage in: Students engage in: Big picture thinking Foundational concepts Planning and preparing Students see the learning is: Students see the learning is: Relevant to them Important Achievable Preparing to build capabilities EXPLORE ENTHUSE EXHIBIT EXTEND Students engage in: Students engage in: Real and relevant tasks Using multiple capabilities Students engage in: Students engage in: Practicing varied applications Reflecting Responding to feedback Building transferable capabilities 6

7. Learners get ready to develop capabilities. Learners get ready to develop capabilities. They:: Acquire necessary foundational concepts and learning skills Form cognitive and emotional connections Plan learning and set goals Learners become motivated Learners become motivated. . They see the learning is: Relevant Important Achievable Preparing to build capabilities EXPLORE ENTHUSE EXTEND EXHIBIT Learners develop flexible capabilities Learners develop flexible capabilities They: Practise capabilities through varied applications Reflect on and discuss ideas, learning, challenges and opportunities for transfer Respond to feedback and form judgements Learners demonstrate their capabilities: Learners demonstrate their capabilities: They: Perform real and relevant tasks Use multiple capabilities in conjunction Express who they are Produce personally valuable artefacts Building transferable capabilities

8. The curriculum challenge Novice + X Novice +Y Developing Graduate Novice Knowledge Novice + X Novice +Y Developing Graduate Novice Critical thinking Novice + X Novice +Y Developing Graduate Solution Seeking Novice Communication and engagement Novice + X Novice +Y Developing Graduate Novice Independence and integrity Novice + X Novice +Y Developing Graduate Novice Soc. and Env. Responsibility Novice + X Novice +Y Developing Graduate Novice 8

9. The curriculum challenge Novice + X Novice Develo ping Graduate Novice +Y Graduate profile Novice 9

10. The curriculum challenge 105 201 205 301 305 101 202 206 106 102 302 306 203 103 207 303 307 107 104 108 204 208 304 308 Novice Developing Graduate 10

11. Activity 2 What challenges do you face? Look at the cards and reflect on your challenges. Is anything important missing? Some cards are blank you can write extra capabilities on these Your task is to sort your cards by category motivation, capacity, systems Select three substantial challenges 11

12. Lenses on strategic interventions Academic as customer 12

13. Activity 3 Meet the challenges Select a substantial challenge Collect a card assigning you a lens Contribute ideas from the perspective of your lens Build your strategy Produce a poster summarising your approach(es) 13

14. Activity 3 - Present and judge Each group gets to present their approach Don t go over time! Each person in the audience gets to judge all presentations and generate additional advice As you listen please write your thoughts on stickies 14

15. Activity 3 Give and receive feedback Attach your feedback to the right posters Join group discussion 15

16. Reflection When I go back to work I will 16

17. Questions, Thanks and Close 17