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Below you will find resources created to support the planning and delivery of the Healthcare Science and Science T Levels:
Organisations involved: Windsor Forest College
Peer reviewed by: Gateway Qualifications
Publication date: July 2024
Brief: This T Level Resource Improvement Project (TRIP) has produced a range of learning materials, developed and peer reviewed by experienced T Level providers. These learning materials will support providers to holistically deliver Performance Outcome 1 of the Occupational Specialism Technical: Laboratory Sciences of the T Level in Science. Read the full summary of the resources.
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Organisations involved: St Mary’s College Hull
Published date: January 2024
Brief: A package of materials to support learners in preparing for their industry placements and making progress against their individual learning objectives. For the T Level in Health supporting the healthcare occupational specialism, the materials consist of:
Organisations involved: Stoke Sixth Form
Published date: January 2024
Brief: The resources can be used throughout the two years of the T Level in Science occupational specialism in laboratory science. The resources can be used as separate formative assessment tasks or aggregated for more formal progress tests.
Organisations involved: Bury College and Derby College
Published date: November 2023
Brief: A package of employer-informed materials to support students to develop the required scientific knowledge and understanding. For the specified core content, the materials developed consist of:
Organisations involved: Bede Academy, Hertford Regional College and Eastleigh College
Brief: Developing employer informed learning materials which contextualise T Level Health core science content (TQ Specification Section B1) to motivate and engage students and ensure their success in the core summative assessments. To produce high-quality, employer informed, accessible, and valid learning materials to help students to develop their science knowledge and understanding to successfully complete the core science summative assessments.
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Organisations involved: St John Rigby College
Brief: The TRIP partners involved in this project recognised a need for current industry-standard materials to prepare learners for placements and to contextualise their understanding of the core curriculum (section A) prior to experiencing a “real” laboratory setting. The aim of the project was to produce resources to improve the delivery of the Science T Level, focusing on good health and safety practice within a laboratory setting.
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Organisations involved: Derby College and Leeds City College
Brief: Developing employer informed formative assessments to support learner success in the core content assessments in Health and Science T Levels. This project aimed to produce sets of high-quality, accessible, and valid formative assessment materials to help students to develop their skills to successfully answer AO2 and AO3 questions in the Technical Qualification core content summative assessments.
Organisations involved: Derby College
Brief: These peer reviewed and employer informed learning materials have been created to support students to develop the required core skills for each task of the ESP. In addition there is guidance materials for staff and students on how best to prepare for the ESP.
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Organisations involved: Hopwood Hall College and Leeds City College
Brief: These peer reviewed and employer informed learning materials have been created to support students to develop the required core skills for each task of the ESP. In addition there is guidance materials for staff and students on how best to prepare for the ESP.
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Organisations involved: Hopwood Hall College, Science Council, Covance, New College Swindon, Harrow and Uxbridge, Petroc, Cardinal Newman, Fareham
Brief: This project was designed to help employers understand the requirements of placement and reduce any barriers that might be faced. The resources created include a matrix of essential skills, broken down into sections covering how these skills will be developed, practiced, assessed and recorded.
Below you will find resources created to support the planning and delivery of the Health T Levels:
Organisations involved: Gloucestershire College and PETROC
Published date: December 2023
Brief: Employer informed and peer reviewed learning activities which combine content from core and occupational specialism sections of the Health and Science T Level.
Organisations involved: Burnley College
Brief: This project produced contextualised resources to support the development of essential maths and science skills to enable learners to better access the science content of the Health T Level.
Organisations involved: Hugh Baird
Brief: Developing employer informed learning materials which contextualise T Level core skills to ensure student success in the Employer Set Project (ESP). To produce high-quality, employer informed, accessible, and valid learning materials to help students to develop their core skills to successfully complete the Employer Set Project summative assessments.
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Organisations involved: Calderdale College
Brief: Employer informed formative assessment and development resources designed to support student success in the T Level core assessments for the Health and Science T Level.
Organisations involved: East Sussex College, Outwood Academy, Hugh Baird College and St Philomena’s Catholic High School
Brief: Developing employer informed formative assessments to support learner success in the core content assessments in Health and Science T Levels. This project aimed to produce sets of high-quality, accessible, and valid formative assessment materials to help students to develop their skills to successfully answer AO2 and AO3 questions in the Technical Qualification core content summative assessments.
Organisations involved: City College Norwich, Luminate Education Group
Brief: Developing employer informed formative assessment materials to support learner success in the Employer Set Project (ESP). To produce sets of high-quality, accessible, and valid formative assessment materials to help students to develop their core skills to be successful in the Employer Set Project.
Organisations involved: Middlesbrough College, Darlington College, Southport College, Manchester College, Nelson & Colne College
Brief: This project’s aim was to improve teaching practice within T Levels by preparing learners for the progressive development of employment skills and workplace behaviours. The project generated a range of both route specific and non-specific teaching and learning resources, which sought to embed employers views in the design of activities. These activities enabled learner development of English, mathematical and digital literacies and enhanced collaboration skills through problem based learning.
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Organisations involved: Hopwood Hall College
Brief: This project produced resources to enable a holistic approach to delivery of the Health T Level. Holistic assessments throughout the resources mean that different areas of the specification are covered in a single task, which supports the structure of assessment for T Levels. Development of wider skills, such as digital, presentation and communication skills, was incorporated in the resource development. The resources produced are easily adaptable, can be used in a range of ways and can be supplemented, which will support different teaching styles and learner needs.
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Organisations involved: Calderdale College and Walsall Academy
Brief: This T Level Resource Improvement Project (TRIP) has produced a range of learning materials, developed and peer reviewed by experienced T Level providers. These learning materials will support learners to develop the Core Skill of Presenting for the T Level in Health.
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Organisations involved: Leeds City College
Brief: The pan-Leeds Health TRIP set out to create a citywide approach to the rollout of T Levels in Leeds. This has been achieved by ensuring that employers across the healthcare sector have been involved in the design and implementation of the Health T Level. Through this engagement, educational and clinical practitioners have been able to discuss, share good practice and find workable solutions to align the qualification and industry placements to collective workforce planning that integrates the Health T Level into citywide pathways to health and care careers.
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Organisations involved: Havant and South Downs College, Abingdon and Witney College, Isle of Wight College and Newbury College
Brief: This project brought together four FE Colleges, all struggling to engage the required number of NHS industry placements. The project focused on developing mirrored training resources, enabling local teaching practice to deliver training in the exact operating procedures, on precise assessment methods used locally prior to engagement on placement, enabling students to ‘hit the ground running’ and add value from day one.
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Organisations involved: Bolton
Brief: This project will improve teaching practice for the delivery of T-Levels through the creation, development and evaluation of an employer informed and endorsed passport to placement ‘tool-kit’ for T Level practitioners.
Each partner will engage with health and social care employers in their area and use draft matrix as a baseline for employers to identify skills, behaviors and attributes needed for a learner to succeed in placement. Standard statements and schemes of learning will be divided between partners and will be presented to trust partners for final amendment. A working group will steer the project.
Organisations involved: New College Durham, Sunderland College, Hartlepool College and Education Partnership North-East
Brief: This project was designed to help inform the sequencing of the core content for year one of the T Level in Health, including how to prepare learners for the key assessment points and how to best prepare learners for industry placements.
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If you are interested in participating in a TRIP, please contact TRIPs@etfoundation.co.uk
TRIPs are suitable for teachers, managers, and specialist staff, and can also benefit from the involvement of wider stakeholders such as employers, awarding organisations and Higher Education Institutions.
TRIPs are offered to the sector as pre-agreed projects that will produce specified resources to support teaching, learning and assessment for T Levels. Projects are funded to support staff time you will have the opportunity to: