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Welsh Baccalaureate: High Level Model
Pan Wales Hairdressing and Beauty conference
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Revised Welsh Baccalaureate
Strengths- What works well• Emphasis on skills including literacy, numeracy and employability skills• The Core offers enriching experiences that contribute to a broad and
well-rounded education (enterprise activity and community participation for example)
• Individual Investigation, encouraging independent study and a range of research, thinking and communication skills
• Wales, Europe and the World - where delivered well it is popular, innovative and exciting
• Use of internationally recognised stand-alone qualifications • Academic and vocational pathways lead to the same qualification• Widespread recognition as an entry qualification for Higher Education
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What we’ve learnt
Concerns- What isn’t working • Assessment of skills – method is too burdensome• Duplication of learning or assessment between stand alone
qualifications and the Core• Varied quality of delivery of the Core• Questions about value of the language element• Lack of grading• Many parents/learners and employers don’t understand
structure, content or purpose
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What are the key changes?
• Retain strengths of current model but address weaknesses
• A new emphasis on skills development: literacy, numeracy and other skills for work and higher education
• An assessment model that is purposeful, clear, integrated with learning, through the use of ‘challenges’
• More rigorous, with more robust quality assurance
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What are the key changes? Cont’d
•Grading of the challenges and an overall grade
• To be universally adopted by schools and colleges from Sept 2015
•Develop an engaging framework for learners to develop world class skills
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What are World Class Skills?
‘In the future, creativity, the ability to think laterally, adaptability and other ‘transversal’ skills will be valued more than the specific bodies of knowledge that schools have traditionally taught.’
European Commission, Education and Training Key Competences
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What are the skills?
Literacy
Numeracy
Digital Literacy
Critical Thinking and Problem solving
Planning and Organisation
Creativity and Innovation
Personal Effectiveness
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Core assessed through Challenges
CommunityChallenge
Enterprise and Employability
Challenge
Global CitizenshipChallenge
Individual project
Example – actively helping the school/centre community or local community
Example - plan and run a team Enterprise , and/or work experience
Example – work on a problem related to issues such as sustainable food, recycling, citizenship/democracy
Example – learners demonstrate their own skills (maybe all 7) to produce an artefact or dissertation– 3000 -5000 words at Advanced level
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Examples of organisations currently offering challenges or competitions
Guiding young people to start up
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Next steps
• Develop detail, learning outcomes, grading structure, taught content• Decide the curriculum time needed – one GCSE/A
level equivalent?• Develop more detail on assessment – what it will be
based on, who will do it, Quality Assurance• We and WJEC will work with stakeholders to
develop support/CPD and resources etc.• Online stakeholder survey on implementation