Functional Skills ICT-Staff Programme Course Guidelines

Free-Standing OCR Accreditation for

Hull College Staff

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These brief guidelines and notes will help you through the process of completing a free-standing unit in Functional Skills Information and Communication Technology. They are intended to complement tutor-led sessions with groups or individuals. If you have any queries between the times we meet, you can contact me (Ali Jawad) on 598856 or Extension 2156 or Email: [email protected]

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Course Aims:

You will gain a thorough working knowledge of Functional Skills Information and Communication Technology unit, be better equipped to support own learners and gain formal recognition of own skills. Specifically, you will:

Achieve a nationally recognised OCR qualification;

Achieve FS ICT level 1 or 2;

Up date a skills you already have;

Work towards the level that suits you best;

Work on skills/knowledge you wish to improve;

Make it easier to support your own students/trainees;

Gain knowledge and understanding of new

qualification structure and standards requirements.

Gain a true flavour of Functional Skills ICT external

assessment.


Functional Skills will provide individuals with the essential knowledge, skills and understanding that will enable them to operate confidently, effectively and independently in life learning and work.’

‘Functional ICT requires learners to use technology in ways that make them effective and involved as citizens, to operate confidently in life and to work in a wide range of contexts’.

‘Learners must have the skills and confidence to

apply, combine and adapt their ICT to new situations in their life and work’.


What’s mean by “Functionality ICT”?


Learners who are secure in functional skills are able to:

Select an appropriate information and tools,

How to apply them to achieve an appropriate outcome,

How to use them,

Which ones are appropriate to a particular task,

Evaluate a range of skills to tackle tasks and problems.

Be competent in full range of ICT skills

They are able to transfer skills to other contexts and situations.


Understand the new standard requirements

Use the FS Ofqual criteria for ICT level 1 or 2

Use the level 1 and 2 amplification as a guidance to

assist you in becoming more familiar with the

Functional Skills standard and how to apply those skills

on each criteria.

Use the level 1 and 2 OCR exemplification as a guidance

to assist you in becoming more familiar with various

examples you can use on each criteria.

Use the level 1 and 2 OCR Referencing Guidance as a

guidance to assist you in becoming more familiar with

the Functional Skills standard.

Use the FS ICT practical activities on moodle to develop

your skills.

Use the OCR FS ICT sample assessment materials and

past papers to prepare you for the external assessment.


Use Functional Skills Staff Handbook on moodle and

Portal to assist you with all the information require and

documentations.

Skill development

Are there skills you’d like/need to develop?

(eg Word processing, Spreadsheet, Database,

PowerPoint, use internet and email)

Self assessment and review

Prepare for the external assessment/test


Forms of assessment evidence that securing skills: Observation: Assessor/tutor observation,

confirmations of skills have been

achieved.

Piece of Work: Natural performance- using software,

using internet, practical activities on

various applications and able to

evaluate your own work/skill.


Specific Sources of Evidence

Please give specific examples of things you do (or have done) under the headings below: TEXT: Word Process, PowerPoint or Desktop

Publisher

Images: Drawing, Charts/graphs, picture (from

ClipArt, Internet, D. Camera, etc), CAD and

Painting.

Numbers: Spreadsheet- Excel (calculation and

formulae), sorting and filtering, etc.

Records: Database-Access, table of records, queries,

searching, sorting, etc.


Skills I would like to work on This section can be added/to/amended as required.


Assessment is of the new Ofqual standard

components

OCR set and marked assessment

Comprising practical tasks using a computer

Part A- Task with access to Internet

15 Minutes

Part B- Task based- using applications

1 Hour 45 Minutes

Controlled, supervised conditions

Will be able to use software ‘help’ facilities


Helping learners to become functional in ICT means helping them to:

Recognise situations in which ICT can make a more

effective and efficient contribution

Apply ICT skills appropriately to a range of tasks and

problems

Reflect on the role that ICT has played in handling these

situations

Become increasingly independent in the application of

skills and knowledge


Effective teaching and learning of functional skills are

based on a ‘personalised’ approach, which tailors learning

to the individual learner. Each learner should have an

individual learning plan, with targets that are based on

initial or early assessment. This plan should be regularly

reviews. It is also important to encourage a variety of rich

learning experiences, including collaborative problem

solving.


Work in small groups

Use your mobile phones to demonstrate and share examples of how they can be used as a teaching resource

Feedback one example from each group


By the end of this course, you will be better able to:

Navigate the standards, and identify differences in the

levels.

Explain what is meant by functionality in ICT.

Identify ways of developing functionality when teaching

ICT.

Identify opportunities for developing functionality in

main programmes.

Identify and begin to develop collaborative approaches

to teaching and learning.

Identify next steps

All Functional Skills ICT resources are on Moodel

including all the information and documentations

require for functional skills, also practical activities

and practice papers.


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Functional Skills ICT-Staff Programme Course Guidelines