How to use this Guide
How to use this Guide
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The Skills Builder Partnership brings together educators, employers and impact organisations to ensure that everyone builds the essential skills that they need to succeed.
We have seen some incredible programmes and provision from our impact organisation partners who have opened up opportunities to learn about, reflect on, practice, and build essential skills. The Skills Builder Impact Directory aims to recognise these sorts of excellent programmes, and to act as a clear quality assurance standard. We intend that this will also increase demand for these programmes from others in the Partnership too, and beyond it.
This Guide is designed to explain how the Directory works, the approach to assessing programme outcomes and their alignment to Skills Builder, and some examples of great practice to learn from.
The Skills Builder Impact Levels are achieved by programmes which are demonstrating best practice in embedding the Skills Builder approach. While every programme is different, they should reflect aspects of the six principles for what works in building skills, which have been confirmed by the practical experience of thousands of individuals over a decade.
The Skills Builder Impact Levels can be achieved at four levels:
The Skills Builder Impact Levels can be achieved at four levels:
Programmes that are successful at this level make individuals more aware of the eight essential skills and their importance for success.
Programmes that are successful at this level give individuals the opportunity to become more self-aware of their skill levels and next steps by reflecting on the essential skill steps.
Programmes that are successful at this level give individual the opportunity to apply and practise their essential skills and the steps.
Programmes that are successful here combine the chance for individuals to reflect on the essential skills before and after applying them, with programme content that is specifically targeted on making steps of progress.
Decisions about Impact Levels awarded to programmes are guided by the Skills Builder Impact Levels criteria. This criteria provides a structure against which programme providers can review how they have integrated Skills Builder.
Along with information about the Skills Builder Impact Levels, and how they can be achieved, this Guide include case studies of exemplar programmes, and how they have achieved that Impact Level.
We hope that the Directory and the Impact Levels are another useful step towards ensuring that everyone can build the essential skills to succeed.
Tom Ravenscroft
Founder & CEO, Skills Builder Partnership
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