The establishment will naturally keep an up to date record of the overall qualifications, skills and experiences of all staff. This criterion is concerned with the CEG/WRE related qualifications, experiences and skills of staff directly involved with the programme. Staff should ideally be encouraged to keep their own career portfolios and to continue their personal development and learning e.g. given developmental opportunities and job responsibilities which suit their skills and experiences and provide interest and challenge.
Increasing numbers of teachers and lecturers have experience of industry or business and are able to use these skills and experience to the benefit of the establishments in which they teach.
CEG and WRE staff need to have appropriate experiences and skills and to be supported in gaining external qualifications if desired. There is no expectation that all careers and WRE co-ordinators should have a specific careers guidance qualification or training and/or experience in business or commerce, They may be very effective co-ordinators through personal experiences, trial and error and attending local short courses. Systems should identify those skills and experiences that staff lack and provide ways of providing them. For example:
CEG
- An adviser as part of students services in a college feels she needs to improve her one to one guidance skills and attends an intensive 3 day course
- A head of year in a secondary school admits to being 'clueless about options Post 16' and attends a 1 day course called 'An introduction to CEG for pastoral staff'
- A careers co-ordinator in a special school has an excellent understanding of CEG and provides an excellent programme for students but is weak on general management skills. He shadows a co-ordinator from another school and attends a 2 day middle management course.
- A new sixth form tutor needs to be updated on the HE system and joins a group of local lecturers and teachers on a visit to a university
WRE
- A business studies teacher spends a day with a local manufacturing company developing case studies materials for their GCSE course.
- A NQT attends ICT training arranged through Careers Wales
- A Head Teacher registers for the Partnership in Leadership Scheme arranged by Business in the Community.
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