Creativity for Employability in Young People

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Creativity for Employability in Young People


Julia Fenby, Education Scotland Lesley Sloan,
Dumfries and Galloway Fiona Muhsin and Louise
Hood, Dundee and Angus College
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• Scotlands Creative Learning Plan

• Share our vision for a more creative society
• Build capacity and expertise of learning
  practitioners to support the development of
  creative skills
• Develop a strategic approach to pathways for
  lifelong creative learning
• Develop approaches to assessment of creativity,
  including certification

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CREATIVITY ACROSS LEARNING

• Published September 2013
• 3-18 Curriculum Impact Project

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THE BIG QUESTIONS

• What is creativity?
• What are creativity skills?
• Why are they important?
• How well are they being developed?

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Focus on employability

• Commission for Developing
• Scotlands Young Workforce
• Opportunities for All
• Post-16 reform
• Regionalisation
• Senior Phase

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• Why are creativity skills important and how do
  they relate to employability?

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• The language of creativity

constructively inquisitive open-minded able to
harness imagination able to identify and solve
problems
and..confident in right and ability to affect
change
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• able to identify and solve problems, by
• understanding and defining problems
• crafting, delivering and presenting solutions
• demonstrating initiative, discipline, persistence
  and resilience
• evaluating impact and success of solutions and
• identifying and implementing next steps in
  refinement or development process.

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• The language of Curriculum for Excellence
• Effective contributors
• an enterprising attitude
• resilience
• take the initiative and lead
• apply critical thinking in new contexts
• create and develop
• solve problems

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• The language of employability
• Employability covers a broad range of
  non-academic or softer skills and abilities which
  are of value in the workplace. It includes the
  ability to work in a team a willingness to
  demonstrate initiative and original thought
  self-discipline in starting and completing tasks
  to deadline.
• CBI UK website

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• EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS FRAMEWORK
• VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
• Showing independence and initiative in
  identifying problems and solving them
• Solving problems in teams
• Applying a range of strategies to problem
  solving
• Adapting to new situations
• Developing a strategic, creative, long term
  vision
• Being creative
• Identifying opportunities not obvious to others
• Translating ideas into action
• Generating a range of options
• Initiating innovative solutions

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ADOBE STUDY REVEALS STRONG CORRELATION BETWEEN
EMPLOYABILITY AND CREATIVITY

• Kuala Lumpur, The Nation, May 2014

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What does this mean for learning?
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• A stronger positioning of creativity within the
  drive to enhance employability
• A clearer understanding by practitioners of the
  broader skills base that support employability
• Learning activities with a strong element of
• personalisation and choice
• thought-provoking starting points
• open-ended enquiry
• problem-solving activities
• learner responsibility for learning approaches

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• A mental model within the minds of young people
  which makes them
• motivated and ambitious for change for the
  better
• confident in the validity of their own viewpoint
• able to apply a creative process to other
  situations, including at work and
• able to lead and work well with others, in the
  workplace, in relationships, in society.

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• CREATIVE LEARNING NETWORKS FUND

unlock learners' creativity and give them the
confidence to use their creativity skills
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Lesley Sloan, Dumfries and Galloway
Fiona Muhsin and Louise Hood, Dundee and Angus
College
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WHAT ARE THE BARRIERS?
WHATS STOPPING YOU FROM USING CREATIVE
APPROACHES TO TEACHING/PLANNING?
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