In conjunction with WJEC, we hosted the free Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales Conference to support teachers and advisers from schools and colleges across Wales. Resources from this event are now available to download, please complete this form for the access to the link. Please also find below additional guidance from WJEC on using these resources.
“At the Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales Conference run by Bangor University on the 5th of July, presentations were made and resources shown that we feel AdvSBW Coordinators could benefit from. The University and the presenters have kindly shared these with us and are to be found here.
These resources are provided in their entirety, but below is a quick precis of what each covers and particular highlights we think might be most impactful on classroom practice and possibly be used within aspects of your Teaching and Learning Programme. We hope you find them useful.
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Presentation and Presenter |
Summary of Contents |
Highlights for Classroom Practice |
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Why do universities and employers value skills? How to convince learners. Claire Brass |
The University’s Employability Manager describes how they emphasise to students how employers value skills alongside knowledge. How skills will be a direct part of the graduate recruitment process, including Assessment Centres.
Activities they use with students to convince them of the importance of skills.
A Graduate Skills and Recruitment Survey containing recent data, directly demonstrating importance of skills to a wide scope of industries. |
· Possible activities to use with learners when discussing importance of skills (slides 6 + 7) · Example of Assessment Centres measuring skills (slide 5) · University’s perspective on the importance of skills (slide 4) · Very recent survey from which to quote employers’ opinion on the importance of graduate skills |
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Creativity and Innovation in the Individual Project. Artificial Intelligence- Friend or Foe? Peredur Williams |
Lecturer in Product Design takes us through the definitions and theory behind Creativity and Innovation then provides a toolkit to use with learners to develop and demonstrate C+I.
How Artificial Intelligence might be used, its limitations and strength. Re-emphasis for centres to be aware of JCQ regulation |
· Eye catching facts, TED talk, cartoons etc. to introduce the concepts and processes behind creativity · Toolkit to use during C+I teaching, development and by the learners during assessment · Proforma for learners to use to show how AI may have been legitimately used |
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Research Methods for Use in the Individual Project Elen Bonner |
Ph.D. student from the School of History, Law and Social Science takes you though the different research methods that might be used by a learner to complete their Individual Project |
· Spotlights both English and Welsh medium resources for this subject · Reinforces message and gives ideas for the teaching of the importance of appropriate data collection methods, credibility of sources, data analysis, ethics and referencing |
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Role of the Supervisor. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and Wales Well-being Goals Prysor Williams |
Senior Lecturer at the School of Environmental & Natural Sciences presents how the university manages their version of Supervisor meetings and how they are different to a teaching role.
How UNSDG and WWBG are at the centre of all of the School’s research |
· How university would value learners understanding the difference and experiencing the motivation behind the dissertation is from them, not supervisor. · Appreciation of fact that many degrees have UNSDG and WWBG at their heart. |