A collaborative approach to trackin acheivement with a focus on skills in Alva Academy: Timeline of pilot
The pilot began Autumn 2023 and ended June 2024. Education Scotland and YouthLink Scotland staff attended the school at certain times throughout the year to provide training, support and guidance. These check ins were necessary to ensure that the pilot progressed in a consistent manner and a young person-centred approach with youth work practice principles and CLD values were at its core.
Below are the key milestones and outputs throughout this timeline.
- Initial introduction to the pilot with staff from across learning community
- Professional learning provided on framework, skills and measuring progress
- Each lead practitioner selected the most relevant skills and associated 'I can' statements (max. 12)
- Input and demonstrations of different methods to capture evidence
- Focused discussion on main challenges and learning points so far
- Early indications on which methods of gathering evidence were working well
- Time to support a deeper understanding of the framework and potential value
- Input on “So What?”, explained end data capture approaches and submission
- Practitioners gave presentations to update on evidence gathering so far, pilot progress, confidence in data submission and completion timescale
- Discussion on pros and cons of evidence gathering approaches
- Details of data submission expectations highlighted for May
- Staff submitted completed data via the agreed template by the end of May.
- Data people who achieved progress towards particular skills and types of evidence gathering used, and included the views of young people and practitioners involved
- Education Scotland and YouthLink met a focus group of young people to gather their views on the pilot
- Feedback on data shared including final numbers of young people who made progress towards specific skills
- Feedback gathered from practitioners on pilot including views on process, data gathering, evidence approaches, opportunities, challenges and next steps
