Apprenticeship standards with occupation duties

We have noticed when adding apprenticeship standards to the Stedfast library that a number of them have specific occupation duties as well as the normal knowledge, skills and behaviours. We thought it might be helpful to show how these curriculum plans can be developed using Stedfast.

Some apprenticeship standards contain specific occupation duties

Creating an Assessment 

The first step in any curriculum planning is to create the assessment plan. This allows users to set the curriculum intent and add the measures that will determine when a learner is ready for end point assessment. In this example we are using the Marketing Assistant standard and as well as adding the knowledge, skills and behaviours we have also added the occupational duties.

Occupational duties have been added to the assessment plan

Adding assessment plan measures

Once the assessment plan has been created and the outcomes added, users can start to add the measures. These are important as they identify the curriculum intent (what you want learner to know or be able to do and why).

Add one or more measures for each of the occupational duties

Measures hold the key information relating to curriculum intent and also the benchmark requirement. The benchmarks will be used later to analyse curriculum impact.

Curriculum intent is what you want learners to be able to know or do and why

Mapping occupational duties to standards

The next step in this process is to map the occupational duties with the knowledge, skills and behaviours.

Curriculum Implementation

The next step in curriculum planning process is to develop the curriculum implementation. To do this we will need to set up an implementation plan.

Setting up a curriculum implementation plan is a simple process

Users can now start to work on this implementation plan

Creating a template

The next step in the curriculum design process is to create the activities template. This allows users to have titled fields in each of the implementation activities.

Users can add curriculum implementation templates

Adding curriculum implementation activities

Users can know add the activities that make up the curriculum implementation. 

Add curriculum activities

Adding curriculum activities is a 3 step process.

Step 1 - Add basic details. Select if the activity involves learning, practice and/or assessment

Step 2 - Select the standards that will be covered in the activity

Step 3 - Add the activity details

Details are easily added to the template

Addressing Occupational Duties

With the apprenticeship standards that include occupational duties it is easy to add these into the curriculum plan. In this example we have set the activity to having juts practice and assessment.

In step 1 we have added the overview information and selected practice and assessment

In step 2 we have added the aligned knowledge, skills and behaviours

In step 3 we have added the detail as well as downloadable resources

We have continued to add the activities that cover all of the programme

Curriculum Sequence

Once all of the activities have been added, users can the easily see the curriculum sequence.

Users can easily see and demonstrate the curriculum sequence

Curriculum Mapping

Another important feature of curriculum planning is curriculum mapping. We recently write a post - Curriculum mapping - How important is it?

In Stedfast, users can easily see the system generated curriculum plan and it will then provide the opportunity to conduct curriculum gap analysis.

Stedfast generates curriculum mapping

Seeing Stedfast

This is a very simple overview on how to create a curriculum plan for apprenticeship standards that have occupational duties. If you would like more information or would like to see Stedfast through an online demo then please contact us.