One of the exciting aspects of the Diploma in Society, Health and Development is that the delivery is different to other offers because of the employer designed - contextualised 50% applied learning. This is such a new approach that there are few readily available examples for the teaching workforce to incorporate into their delivery. However employers recognise that they can help to bridge this gap and have continued to support the development of materials that provide examples of these contexts to support “Bringing Learning to Life”.
This compendium provides a variety of context examples that are intended to stimulate ideas and innovation in the delivery of the Diploma in Society, Health and Development. These examples have been produced by “practitioners”, that is by people from within the children and young people’s, health, community justice and adult social care workforce. The context examples are loosely mapped to topic areas and levels. However practitioners are not experts from the teaching workforce so interpretation of these materials will be needed for use with learners. In practice the suggested context examples from topics and levels could be differentiated for different learners and may cross several topic areas too.
Although there are 70 examples within the compendium it is not intended to be complete, but rather to stimulate thinking about the multiplicity of applied learning contexts possible across the breadth of the diploma. Engaging with practitioners close to the learners from their own community and indeed within education organisations themselves is essential too to optimise the potential for high quality stimulating learning experience that this choice offers to young people.
Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Qualification Curriculum Development Authority fully support the approaches taken within the compendium, to engage practitioners to develop this Compendium of Applied Learning Materials.
Dr Moira Livingston
Chair 2007-2009
We welcome your feedback
diploma@skillsforhealth.org.uk
To access the table of applied learning material click here.
QCDA have produced a number of guidance documents relating to planning the Diploma curriculum. Follow this link to access a range of case studies and information.
QCDA has produced a guide is for all those who are accountable for the successful completion of work experience in Diploma programmes: Diploma teachers, exams officers and work-related learning coordinators in schools and colleges, and representatives of the education business partnerships that support consortia. It provides guidance on the requirements for work experience and shows how it supports Diploma programmes. To view this guidance, click here
