Learner Reviews for Practitioners - Making Reviews More Fun and More Effective

Overview

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Making Reviews a More Effective Experience

Achieving grade 1 and 2 at Inspection requires that all key processes are working as effectively as possible. Inspection reports continue to show that Progress Reviewing is an under-developed process in many organisations. When carried out effectively, learner progress reviewing makes an important and very significant contribution to success and achievement rates. Primarily by helping to ensure Learners have a very clear understanding of their current abilities, what they are achieving and the new skills they will develop but secondarily and most importantly by helping to build their motivation enthusiasm and commitment.

This workshop is designed to help practitioners make progress reviews more effective and in doing so help improve success rates.

For Whom

This intense and highly interactive workshop has been designed, primarily, for practitioners who are responsible for ensuring learner progress, success and achievement on Apprenticeship, JCP, E2E and other similar programmes.

The workshop also offers significant value to those managers who have responsibility for the quality and outputs of learner progress reviews and are looking to understand better, what a good review looks like and the ways to present this knowledge on to their staff.

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the workshop is primarily aimed to help participants ensure that progress reviews are a stimulating experience for learners, in which all aspects of learner progress and achievement are captured and clear, measurable, follow on achievement targets are agreed and understood by all parties.

As a result of attending this workshop participants will enhance their perception of the importance and value or reviews and understand or better understand how to:

Produce more effective reviews
Increase learner ownership and participation
Agree clearer and more robust targets
Manage review sessions more effectively
Develop enhanced learner and employer engagement in the process

Content

The purpose learner progress reviews serve related to different types of programme, and their value to learners
How to build greater learner and tutor ownership of, and commitment to the process
How to better engage employers in the process
How to produce effective reviews which capture what the learner is learning and achieving, in relation to specific aspects of their programme, and wider employability or personal development skills that are being developed
Effective management of progress review sessions including the use of ‘discussion techniques’ to help resolve barriers to progress and enhance motivation
Meaningful and measurable targets

Learning will be facilitated through:

interactive discussions
case study analysis
presentation of examples of good practice
group and individual problem solving exercises
role play activities
tutor feedback to individuals
participants’ critical evaluation of their own systems
comparative analysis of the systems demonstrated in the workshop, and the practices used by other workshop participants.

Related Learner Systems Workshops

Certificates of Professional Development.

Formal Certificates of Development will be issued, by post, to participants who complete this workshop. These certificates will detail the key learning aims and the face-to-face learning hours undertaken, enabling participants to update their CPD records and logs accordingly. The workshop also allows time, during the day, for participants to reflect on and record their personal learning development and consider how best to apply the knowledge gained on return to work. This element of the programme is designed to maximise the benefits from attending and enable participants to make better review judgments when recording their CPD activities.