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Essential Skills

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What are Essential Skills?

• AON• Comms• ICT

• WWO• IOLP• PS

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What are Essential Skills?

• Vital skills everyone needs to succeed at:– work – education and training– in life

• ie transferable skills• Help you in:– other subjects– applying for a job or higher education

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Employers said:

• They were looking for applicants that:– Can communicate effectively– Are numerate– Have IT skills– Can work in teams, with good interpersonal skills– Are willing and able to learn– Have good technical knowledge– Are flexible in their approach to work

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What’s the point of Essential Skills?

• That you apply them in your other studies and your work, ie:– use them out work out a real problem or – find the answer to a real question

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Offices:Skill At work

Communication Business meetings, reception, correspondence, emails, internal documents, notes

Application of number Ordering stationery, monitoring expenses, office plans

Information and communication technology

Word processing, accounts, spreadsheets, letters, client databases, company records, computerised diaries

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Catering:Skill At work

Communication Reading recipes, food orders, brochures, textbooks, talking to staff and suppliers, writing menus, plans for theme evenings, meetings

Application of number Delivery notes, company suppliers, costing, stocktaking, storage areas

Information and communication technology

Ordering stock, typing menus, memos to departments/staff, invoices/accounts

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Childcare:Skill At work

Communication Talking to parents, staff meetings, medical forms, letters to parents

Application of number Taking fees, ordering stock, budgets and forecasts, fund-raising

Information and communication technology

Newsletter for parents, registers and room lists, children’s reports, curriculum plans, managing budgets

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Engineering:Skill At work

Communication Talking to customers, reading manuals, processing job sheets, inspection reports

Application of number Interpreting gauges and instruments, invoices, measuring

Information and communication technology

Using diagnostic equipment, IT based parts catalogues, billing, stock control

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Hairdressing:Skill At work

Communication

Application of number

Information and communication technology

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How will the level be chosen?

• Initial assessment• Start at level 1 and • Progress will be observed in class

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How do we assess Essential Skills?

• Portfolio

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ICT

• In 3 parts:– Use ICT systems– Find, select and exchange information– Develop and present information

• Important:– Understand a task or activity

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ICT Level 1

• Use ICT systems to find, develop and present simple numerical, textual and graphical information in the context of short, straightforward tasks, using basic techniques.

• Use technology safely, care for equipment, and avoid losing data.

• Send and receive e-mail, and to whom they should turn if things go wrong.

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ICT Level 2 pt1

• Use ICT systems independently to carry out a largely straightforward task, to make effective searches, to derive new information and present it taking account of purpose and audience.

• Combine information, such as text with images or numbers, in a consistent way.

• Activities require a greater range of techniques, and more steps, than at Level 1.

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ICT Level 2 pt 2

• Enter formulae when using appropriate software to generate simple calculations such as totals.

• Observe copyright and confidentiality laws and manage health, safety and security risks.

• Recognise errors and their causes and be aware of ways of minimising the risk of viruses.

• Send and receive e-mails with attachments.

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Summary

• Level• Questions?

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