This Training and Support dashboard features a variety of content to help you to build your learners’ essential skills, including online training modules. Explore these modules below.
A guide for schools and colleges outlining the Skills Builder approach, principles and different levels of Award.
A toolkit for building essential skills at all levels of education - including the Skills Builder Universal Framework and the Skills Builder Principles.
A comprehensive guide for Teachers and Facilitators, to building essential skills in learners with additional needs. Includes the Expanded Universal Framework, which breaks down each skill into teachable nuggets, and six Principles for robustly building skills.
This Resource Pack provides an overview of resources and activities to support learners, including those with additional needs. Alongside this overview, Best Practice Snapshots give examples of where these have been successfully applied in an inclusive learning setting.
This resource pack has been designed for schools to use to support their communications with parent and carers and the wider school community to introduce Skills Builder and how to build the eight essential skills at home.
Click here to view the educational settings who have achieved a Bronze, Silver or Gold award on the Accelerator programme.
In this module, you will learn about the work of the Partnership.
In this module, you will explore our flagship product for educators: the Skills Builder Hub.
This module is designed to support teachers to develop essential skills during social distancing.
An introduction to the essential skills.
How the Universal Framework provides a language to teach and assess essential skills
How the Universal Framework makes use of low abstraction, highly tangible descriptions to support learners.
How the Universal Framework supports and is supported by metacognitive learning strategies.
Efforts schools and colleges in the Skills Builder Partnership are making to celebrate learner achievement.
Easy ideas to enrich the learning environment to better support the language of essential skills.
Essential skills in Early Years settings
Essential skills for younger learners
Essential skills in the Secondary phase
Essential skills in Further Education
Using the Skills Builder Universal Framework to inform formative practice
Each step of each skill requires specific knowledge and teaching.
Once the knowledge has been taught, it’s time for focussed practice.
You will learn that skills are practised all the time and think about when and where might be the best times to highlight their use.
You will learn of other settings who are employing the wider school community to capitalise on essential skills practice.
You will learn about the principles of project-based learning, how education settings across England are bringing skills to life and the elements needed to make meaningful engagement with employers.