Generic learning documents

This page features links to official documents on the theme of Generic learning.

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Nuts and Bolts Guides (Functional Skills) (PDF 674KB)

A guide to the role of functional skills as a key component of Diplomas and an overview of how consortia can fully contextualise functional skills into Diploma delivery.

Design for success: functional skills delivery and the Diploma

A guide to functional skills delivery and the Diploma with illustrations from within the key stage 4 and post-16 curriculum.

Extended project - Guidance leaflet for higher education

An information leaflet for Higher Education explaining the Extended Project, outlining its content and its benefits for students.

Extended project - Guidance leaflet for teachers

This leaflet explains the main features of the extended project and the impact that it will have on teachers and students.

Extended Project Factsheet

A factsheet for teachers, headteachers, senior managers, local authorities, learners on the Extended Project and the challenges for advanced students.

Generic skills in Diploma learning

This guidance will help practitioners planning generic skills across the Diploma to maximise learner motivation, development and achievement.

Recording PLTS in Diplomas

Guidelines for managers and practitioners who are responsible for planning and delivering Diploma programmes, which should inform local planning and preparation for recording PLTS.

Face-to-face – theme: Curriculum planning – module: Mapping and accrediting personal, learning and thinking skills

Face-to-face support which helps you to identify practical strategies to map PLTS and to develop assignments to integrate them into the Diploma.

Face-to-face – theme: Teaching and learning – module: Classroom management

Face-to-face support which explores a range of positive strategies to engage learners, manage behaviour and meet the needs of all the individual learners within a group.

Face-to-face – theme: Teaching and learning – module: Effective teaching and learning strategies

Face-to-face support which provides practical examples of a range of teaching and learning strategies from the Diploma proven to have a significant impact on learner achievement.

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