- Inclusive visioning
- Project management
- Leadership in sustainable communities
- Breakthrough thinking
- Making it happen
- Stakeholder management
- Analysis - evaluation
- Communication
- Conflict resolution
Building Sustainable Communities - Online CPD Unit
Activity 6: The Egan Review - Generic Skills
Consider the importance of geography at Key Stage 3 and GCSE for providing a basis for developing these generic skills.
Which do we do well? Which could we do better? Which of these sit more comfortably within other subject areas? Even where that is the case, to what extent does the engagement with learners' communities mean that it still contributes to geographical education?
Can you identify a learning sequence (KS3 or GCSE) where you could enhance the skills development in geography? Are there omissions we should consider?
As an extension, you could consider how this compares with the QCA Framework for personal, learning and thinking skills 11-19 in England which lists six groups of skills:
- Team workers
- Self-managers
- Independent enquirers
- Reflective learners
- Creative thinkers
- Effective participators
Source: QCA (now QCDA)
Specifically for Key Stage 3, it is necessary to relate these to the key processes (geographical enquiry) in the programme of study.
'Real and relevant contemporary contexts'
See Sustainable communities in action - some real life examples of the principles of sustainable communities being put into practice.
See Skills in action - some real life examples of sustainable communities skills put into practice.
- How does your scheme of work make explicit references to occupations using skills for sustainable communities?
See Different perspectives - why different people and organisations should be interested in sustainable communities.
See the Mind the Skills Gap research, the first cross-sector assessment of supply and demand of skills required to deliver sustainable communities.
And draw their attention to the 'Ask What If' website.
Comment
Making these overtures to careers education and guidance should reward itself in reinforcing the importance of geography as a subject choice at GCSE.
Now do Activity 7 >>>
This project was run in partnership with the Academy for Sustainable Communities which has since become the Skills and Knowledge team at the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).
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