How to use these resources to improve practice
The content of this section will allow teachers and practitioners to access key information, resources and policies in order to support professional development and the implementation of DYW objectives. It also provides inspiration and connections around interesting practice currently emerging across Scotland in this area.
This section aims to generate discussion around a number of reflective questions including:
- Through the learning experiences and opportunities I create, how am I helping young people develop skills which prepare them for their future career pathways and the world of work?
- What could I do more of, less of, or differently?
- How can partnership working with other practitioners, parents, employers and the wider community be developed further to better prepare young people for the world of work?
- What opportunities are there for co-designing and implementing learning experiences about the world of work?
Since the implementation of Scotland’s Youth Employment Strategy Education Scotland has developed a number of key documents and related resources to support practitioners in realising the ambitions around DYW. The below provides a summary of these under nine key sections:
1. Key documents
Standards and guidance:
- Career Education Standard (3–18)
- Career Education Standard (3-18) (Gaelic version) (1.2 MB)
- Work Placements Standard (English version)
- Work Placements Standard (Gaelic version)
- School/Employer Partnership
Review and reports:
- Review of the implementation of the Career Education Standard (3-18), the Work Placement Standard and Guidance on School/Employer Partnerships
- Developing the Young Workforce Information Update - January 2020
- Overarching DYW milestones: Seven Year Plan: Developing the Young Workforce in Scotland until 2021
- DYW Annual reports
- Learner Journey Review 15 - 24
- Developing employability, creativity and skills – Education Scotland website
Workshops and learning resources:
- Career Education Standard (3-18): Suite of Learning Resources
- DYW - Quick guide for teachers and practitioners
- Video: What would you like to be?
- PDF file: What could I be…?
Communications and networks
2. Career education and guidance 3-18
Resources
- Career Education Standard – Exemplification Tool
- PDF file: Learning Resource 1 - Introduction to Career Education Standard (936 KB)
- PowerPoint file: Learning Resource 1 - Introduction to Career Education Standard (4.14 MB)
- CES 3-18 Reflection tool and Self-evaluation Wheel
Practice exemplars
Primary/Early Years
- Dalgety Bay Primary School: CES 3-18 and the heart of school planning
- Busby Primary School: Skills development at the core of the curriculum
- Caskieberran Primary School - Career education in the primary sector
Secondary
- Woodfarm High School: A whole school approach to career education
- Currie Community High School: Shared Vision
3. Skills and Profiling
Resources:
- Moray Skills Pathways
- Guidance and learning resource: Profiling skills and achievements in the context of career education
- Scotland’s Enterprising Schools
Practice exemplars:
Primary/Early Years:
- Ferguslie – Pre-Five Centre: Skills Development in Early Years
- Kinross Primary School: Developing skills for learning life and work in partnership with employers
- Bonhill Primary School: A whole school approach to enterprise and employability education
- Millburn Area School Group: Developing Career Management Skills
- Busby Primary School - Skills development at the core of the curriculum
Secondary
- Dalziel High School: Skills development through STEM
- Kingussie High School: Profiling employability skills and wider achievement
- Larbert High School: Skills Framework
- Skills Academy programme at St Matthew’s Academy, North Ayrshire
+ Sketchnote – St Matthew’s Academy – Skills for learning, life and work - Craigroyston Community High School: Developing skills to realise aspirations
- Castlebrae Community High School: Junior Adventure Leader – developing employability skills in the BGE
4. Work placement and work-related learning
5. Partnership working
Resources
- Education-Employer Partnerships - Key documents to support planning, implementation and evaluation
- A self-evaluation guide for school/college partnerships
Practice exemplars
Secondary
- School-employer partnerships at the heart of the learner journey - Breadalbane Academy
- A partnership approach at Ardrossan Academy
- Calderglen High School: Inspirational learning delivered in partnership
6. Curriculum design
Resources
- Senior Phase Benchmarking Tool
- Learning pathways: Senior Phase design
- Preparing Young People for the Future – Senior phase in Scotland’s colleges
Practice exemplars
Secondary
- Weaving employability into the senior phase curriculum - St Andrew’s Secondary School
- Pre-Apprenticeship Programme at Govan High School, Glasgow
- The Outward Bound Trust- supporting young people on their future pathways
- SCOTS Programme at Forth Valley College
7. Foundation Apprenticeships
- DYW senior phase developments - Foundation Apprenticeships
- Foundation Apprenticeship SWAY
- Professional Learning Module: An overview of work-based learning and Foundation, Modern and Graduate Apprenticeships
- My Wow Apprenticeships zone
- Teachers newsletter
8. Equalities
Resources
- PDF file: Learning resource 7: Ensuring equality of opportunities
- DYW- Embedding equality into resources for learning' guide
- Improving gender balance from 3-18
- Improving gender balance - Big Me
Practice exemplars
Primary/Early Year
Secondary
- Sanderson High School:
- Activity Agreements in East Lothian
- Parkhill Secondary School: Enterprise Academy – flexible pathways for young people with additional needs
9. Parents
- National Parent Forum Scotland: Information flyers for parents on career education, pathways and skills
- Parentzone Scotland - DYW: