The Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning issued a call for evidence in July 2012 on the characteristics and features of excellent adult vocational teaching and learning, including examples of effective, innovative and exemplary approaches. Over the following eight months, the Commission secretariat received and catalogued over 250 items of evidence.
All the evidence was reviewed in order to inform the Commission’s summary report It’s about work…, published in March 2013. Further analysis and synthesis of the evidence will shortly be published as one of the Commission’s supplementary papers.
In addition, a selection of the evidence, in particular submissions which shine a light on examples of vocational teaching and learning practice, is available below:
- Hull College: CAVTL evidence submission from the Hull College Group
- Hull College: Digitus Bitesize - a digital literacy magazine for teachers
- Hull College Film Project
- Hull College: Steps to Excellence - A Case Study in Improving Vocational Teaching and Learning
- Hull College: Net315 article
- Exeter College: The Media Curriculum – Real Work Experience video
- Exeter College: Teaching, learning and assessment think tank
- Vision West Nottinghamshire College video submission
- CAVTL evidence submission from City and Islington College
- New College Durham and Peterlee factory case study
- CAVTL evidence submission from JISC - Kendal College project
- CAVTL evidence submission from North Warwickshire and Hinckley College Library
- CAVTL evidence submission from Southend Adult Community College
- Video Introduction to Highbury College Pedagogical Framework
- CAVTL evidence submission from the Association of Master Upholsterers and Soft Furnishers
- CAVTL evidence submission from OPITO: transformation training programme
- CAVTL evidence submission from the 157 Group
- CAVTL evidence submission from the Association of Colleges
- CAVTL evidence submission from the Association of Colleges - additional case study
- CAVTL evidence submission from NIACE
- CAVTL evidence submission from CUREE
- CAVTL evidence submission from Landex: Elements of Excellence in Vocational Teaching and Learning in the Land based Sector
- CAVTL evidence submission from the Foyer Federation
- CAVTL evidence submission from JISC
- Case studies relating to excellent teaching and learning in the field of sport
- Initial teacher training and CPD for adult vocational teaching and learning, Dr Maggie Gregson, University of Sunderland, and Dr Kevin Orr, University of Huddersfield
- Science in context for young people and the links to vocational science for adults, David Swinscoe, City and Islington College
- In spite of, not because of: What stops vocational teachers from maintaining and developing subject and occupational expertise? Janet Hamilton Broad, Institute of Education, University of London
- How does the culture of the work environment support or hinder the transfer of learning to the workplace? Executive Summary, Jacqui Ramus
- It's no barrier: Promoting best practice in learning and development for all learners regardless of age, Skills for Care
- It’s no barrier: Top 10 tips for training providers and managers, Skills for Care
The learning and outcomes from the work of over 60 practitioner researchers in the sector during the last four years, supported by LSIS’s Research Development Fellows programme, was also shared with the Commission. Project reports are available on the Excellence Gateway for the Research Development Fellowships and the research support programme specifically for English, Maths and ESOL (SfLLN).