Supporting the Learner Journey
Accredited training resources and learning materials for Learning Support Practitioners now available online through our program of Online Learning.
South West Workforce Development Partnership's Learning Hub
The South West Workforce Development Partnership has an excellent track record in designing and completing workforce development projects that promote the achievement of national occupational standards.
This dedicated website has been designed to support the delivery of these projects.
CPD Framework
Supporting the Learner Journey is a CPD framework, accredited by OCNSWR, designed specifically for the professional development of any one supporting people who are endeavoring to learn in any setting and context. There are 14 units that include generic needs, for example role and responsibilities, initial assessment and safeguarding. Other units focus on strategies for supporting people with specific difficulties such as Mental Health issues, sensory impairment, physical difficulties and those who are on the Autistic spectrum.
The Trainer Pack and the Accreditation Pack
The Supporting the Learner Journey Trainer Pack and TheSupporting the Learner Journey OCNSWR Accreditation Pack
These resources were developed, produced and published in November 2009 through the Continuation Project. This project was funded due to the sucess of the original Supporting the Learner Journey: Professional Development for Learning Support Practitioners.
Strategies to Support Blind and Partially Sighted Learners into Employment
The project is an extension to the CPD Framework Supporting the Learner Journey for learning support practitioners. The four units comprising this module specialises in providing knowledge and skills to staff who are supporting learners with visual impairment as well as providing information, advice and guidance to learners who are progressing into employment.
- Unit 1: Implications for Visual Impairment
- Unit 2: Mobility
- Unit 3: Roles and Responsibilities
- Unit 4: Advice and Guidance
Further informaiton can be obtained from Clive Fowler, Senior Adviser for VI and Complex Needs at the West of England School and College, Countess Wear, Exeter, EX2 6HA. Tele: 01392 454 335
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The Transition Toolkit
The purpose of the Transition Toolkit is to give a wider range of further education providers the necessary information, professional development and practical advice to enable them to recruit and retain learners in transition with a wide-range of learning difficulties and/or disabilities. It will enable providers to be better prepared for receiving learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities and, thereby, expand the opportunities for these young people and improve retention. In so doing it will ultimately improve the changes of learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities to maximise their potential.
The Transition Toolkit provides information, advice and guidance to those who support learners with special educational needs. Comprising a portfolio and two CD Roms, the toolkit provides comprehensive guidance to teachers, tutors, support staff, employers and all key stakeholders. Its focus is how to understand and provide support with the processes of transition from school through college and into employability for learners with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Toolkits can be obtained on request from:
Haydn Thomas
Director of Business Development
The West of England School and College
Countess Wear
Exeter
EX2 6HA
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