Personal Development and Employability Skills

Personal Development and Employability Skills

Session* / Title / Workbook
Level 1 / Session Plans**
1 / What’s it all about? / Welcome Session (see attached Session Plan & Power point presentation)
Profile Forms should be filled in at this session
2 / Getting to know you / Concentrate on Icebreakers and ‘getting to know you’ activities. Lots of examples can be found on the Learning Hub

The first section of the My Journey Form should be completed here
3 / Why work in a team? / TW1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.2 / A session plan can be found on the Learning Hub. Make time to fill in the relevant sections of the workbook too

4 / Putting teamwork into practice / TW 2.1,2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 / A session plan can be found on the Learning Hub

The ‘Reflect on the Start’ section of My Journey could be completed here
5 / Stress Management / ISMS 2.3, 2.4 / A session plan can be found on the Learning Hub

6 / Body Language / ISMS 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2 / A session plan can be found on the Learning hub

7 / Added Value Partner Visit /
Paperwork catch up / Speak to your Exec about an Added Value Partner Visit. This will need to be booked well in advance.
Or use this time to catch up with any bits of the workbooks that need completing.
You can also revisit some icebreakers to reflect on learning.
8 / Coping with criticism / TW 3.4, 3.5 / A session plan can be found on the Learning Hub

9 / Time Management
(The giraffe Challenge) / ISMS 2.1, 2.2 / A session plan can be found on the Learning Hub

10 / Skills, Strengths & Personal Development / TW 4.2, 4.3
ISMS 4.1, 4.2 / A session plan can be found on the Learning Hub

11 / Planning for celebration / Paperwork catch up / Use this time to effectively plan for a celebration and to catch up with any bits of the workbooks that need completing.
12 / Let’s Celebrate /
Evaluation / Pages 40 - 42 Adviser Support Pack
The final section of the My Journey Form should be completed here along with the back page.

The PDE Qualification

The Prince’s Trust Award and Certificate in Personal Development and Employability Skills (PDE) recognises a breadth of personal skills, qualities and attitudes required by employers across a range of sectors.

The qualifications have been developed with the aim of progressing learners into further education and/or employment and are available for use with pre and post 16 learners.

They give learners the opportunity to:

• Develop their own personal growth and engagement in, and through, learning
• Engage in learningthat is relevant to them and support their development of personal skills and attributes that are essential for working life and employment
• Prepare themselves for progression into further education programmes, apprenticeships or other work-based learning
• Develop their literacy, language and numeracy skills

The qualifications are regulated qualifications on the Register of Regulated Qualifications (RITs):

A ‘Learning Outcome’ describes what we hope the Learner will know, understand, or be able to demonstrate as a result of the activities.

Each Learning Outcome has a set of Assessment Criteria – these are what have to be done to achieve the Learning Outcome.

The table below shows the Learning Outcome and Assessment Criteria for Entry 3.

Please register you centre with the Qualifications Team. You can do this via the Qualifications Portal

Making Entries for PDE

Centres should onlymake certificate claimsfor units and qualifications when they are satisfied that the portfolios meet all the assessment criteria and the work has been internally verified.

• Units and qualifications can be purchased by logging onto thePrince's Trust Qualifications Portal.
• Making a claim on The Portal is the official stage of informing The Prince’s Trust that these learners are being submitted for External Verification. All entries will be charged, so it is important that learners are only entered for the unitsthat have been completed, assessed and internally verified.

The address for sending portfolios for EV is:

Qualifications
The Prince's Trust
Prince's Trust House
9 Eldon Street
London
EC2M 7LS

Completion of the Workbook does not ensure the learner will pass at external verification. The assessor should ensure the learner completes the workbook to fulfill the criteria fully.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION PROCESSES

The Prince’s Trust evaluation system monitors programme performance through a variety of indicators, materials and processes. This is important for performance monitoring, supporting learning and improvement and demonstrating how The Trust’s programmes help young people.

Data quality

Evaluation data is important for performance monitoring, supporting learning and improvement and demonstrating how our programmes help young people. The system relies on collecting accurate data. It is therefore essential that schools/centres support young people to disclose true information and that this information is accurately captured on the relevant forms and sent back to The Trust in a timely manner.

The Profile Form

Young people supported should be in at least one of The Prince’s Trust four target groups. It is also important to monitor how many belong to sub-target groups. The Trust reports on the proportion of young people in each target and sub-target group and their demographic profile (e.g. age, ethnicity). The proportion living in deprived areas is also monitored using young people’s postcodes. This data is collected through the Profile Form, which is completed by all young people on The Prince’s Trust programmes. The data in the Profile Forms is used for Regulatory purposes by Prince’s Trust Qualifications and the Profile forms are used to register the learners so details need to accurate (e.g. legal name not nickname).

Hard Outcomes: The Text Survey

The Trust aims to support young people into employment, apprenticeships, training and volunteering (referred to as ‘positive outcomes’).

Outcomes data is collected by a series of automated texts to young people’s mobile phones, three and six months after they leave a programme. Text surveys are a young people-friendly method of communication, including for hard-to-reach young people. It is completely free for young people to answer the text message survey. This means they are not charged their normal text message tariff and they do not need credit to reply. Young people who do not have mobile phones, have declined to complete an earlier text survey, or who have disabilities which make it difficult for them to text are contacted by phone to complete the survey.

In the text message survey young people get an initial text explaining the process to them. They receive the first question shortly afterwards. Their response triggers another question based on the previous answer they gave. All young people who respond to one or more questions will be entered into a prize draw.

It is important to achieve a good response rate to ensure the accuracy of the data. A good response rate can be achieved by: collecting updated mobile numbers at the end of the programme on the My Journey Record Sheet, and reminding young people about the text message survey at throughout the programme. For guidance on briefing young people about the text survey, please refer to the ‘End of The Programme’ scheme of work.

Soft Outcomes – My Journey

The Trust uses a ‘distance travelled’ method to determine the soft outcomes that young people achieve. This is obtained through My Journey sessions where young people are asked to measure their skills at the start and then again at the end of a programme to determine the change in their skills. To collect this data, young people will be asked to complete a My Journey Record Sheet. For guidelines for running My Journey session, please refer to the ‘Induction’ and ‘End of The Programme’ schemes of work.

Feedback

The Trust encourages a commitment to continuous improvement from all staff. Anyone with ideas to improve a programme should discuss their ideas with their Prince’s Trust executive, who can also refer you The Trust’s Customer Feedback Policy and guidance if required.

*Session timings are approximately 5 hours, but this can be split into 2x 2.5 hours etc

**Session plans are just for guidance