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Seeking excellence: key questions of the CIF
How well do programmes and activities meet the needs and interests of learners?
The evaluation requirements of the CIF state that inspectors should evaluate:
How Subject Learning Coaches can help your organisation to achieve these outcomes
Programmes or activities match learners’ aspirations and potential
The primary role of an Subject Learning Coach is to support the continuing professional development of teachers and trainers, enabling them to try out new methods of teaching, training and learning in a supportive environment and to seek feedback from the learners. Routinely engaging learners in review processes so that it becomes the ‘norm’ is a valuable part of the developmental process.
What the inspectors might say…
The quality of teaching and learning is good overall. The best teaching is well planned and managed and makes use of good quality learning materials. The use of recently developed methods and materials is succeeding in introducing a good level of variety into the teaching.
FE college inspection report
Meeting external requirements and responsiveness to local circumstances
Managers need to evaluate the extent to which the curriculum has been planned to meet the needs of employers and the local community and help to identify any gaps in provision. Using coaching techniques can help managers take a fresh look at the reasons for offering programmes of study and their effectiveness in meeting this criteria and identify opportunities for improving this further — by, for example exploring different accreditation options to suit the changing needs of learners.
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