Conference name, location Mission almost impossible: How can we embed employability capabilities? Add presenters Conference name, location Date 1

Overview Introductions Activity 1 Activity 2 Break Activity 3 Exploring the capabilities graduates need Activity 2 Perspectives on the importance of contrasting capabilities Break Activity 3 Some teaching and learning design challenges Brief presentations Close 2

Learning outcomes Assess the range, standard, scope and importance of a range of employability capabilities. Develop plans for embedding a difficult to teach capability in a session, course or programme. Evaluate pedagogical practices for embedding employability capabilities into the curriculum Reflect on your own courses in terms of employability capability development. 3

What is employability? A set of achievements – skills, understandings and personal attributes – that makes graduates more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupation, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy (Yorke 2006). 4

Draw and label a future ready graduate Activity 1 – What employability capabilities do students need? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? An ice breaking small group exercise designed to familiarise participants with employability capabilities. Allocate roles such as student, employer, lecturer, vice-chancellor, prime minister so participants become aware of contrasting perspectives on the capabilities graduates need in their ‘tool box. Draw and label a future ready graduate 5

Activity 1 – What employability capabilities do students need? Feedback 6

What did you notice? Similarities and differences between groups? Differences between stakeholders? Thoughts? 7

Activity 2 - Which capabilities are most important? Look at your cards. Is anything important missing? Some cards are blank – you can write extra capabilities on these Your task is to sort your cards by importance Put them in an ordered row with a label at each end - ‘LEAST IMPORTANT’ to ‘MOST IMPORTANT’ Remember to listen to all the stakeholders views 8

Feedback Have a look at the work that other groups have done. Comments? Changes? Now discard all your capabilities except the 6 most important! Small group activity Groups will be given a set of capabilities Groups sort capabilities into importance Some groups can focus specifically on skills to support transition into the workforce Some groups can focus specifically on skills that will help students with their long-term success 9

Activity 2 Con. Revert to being expert academics and sort your 6 by how easy they are to learn and teach Easy Difficult Quite impossible 10

Feedback on your top two capabilities Why they are important and why they are difficult to learn and teach? Once the most important capabilities are identified, groups discard less important capabilities. Groups now categorise these capabilities into ease of development within advanced and research informed discipline based courses. 11

Preparing to build capabilities Building transferable capabilities A pedagogical framework for developing employability capabilities Why is it that we are preparing to build capabilities when we are “enthusing” – I’m not sure I understand the grey rings and their link to the coloured rings Also, we have this in a ring but should this be a linear framework – if so can do it tonight Students see the learning is: Relevant to them Important Achievable Students engage in: Big picture thinking Foundational concepts Planning and preparing Preparing to build capabilities ENTHUSE Building transferable capabilities EXPLORE ENTHUSE EXPLORE EXHIBIT EXTEND EXHIBIT EXTEND Students engage in: Real and relevant tasks Using multiple capabilities Students engage in: Practicing varied applications Reflecting Responding to feedback 12

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Activity 3 - Design Challenges Select your ‘impossible’ to develop capability Read through your scenario Use the template – try for designs that work, don’t consume too many resources, are scalable! You have 30 mins – 10 to share ideas, 10 to make a plan, 10 to prepare a short presentation Allocate a scenario to each group. Group to develop a plan to embed these capabilities in the curriculum. 14

Share your solutions Each group gets to argue for their design Each table gets to judge all presentations and award a prize As you listen please mark up the rubric 15

Awards and congratulations ceremony 16

Reflection When I go back to work I will… 17

Thank you Questions? Comments? 18