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Cross-curricular themes

As well as becoming competent in their subject or vocational specialisms, learners need to understand key themes relating to the world of work, for example:

• Enterprise
• Customer care
• Health, safety and well-being.

If these areas are introduced into the curriculum, learners can identify the transferable skills and knowledge and relate them to employment opportunities in their specialist areas.

Learners should understand what equal opportunities in the workplace means and teachers should include this area in work placement preparation. Teachers need to be well prepared and have up to date information about aspects of equal opportunities in the workplace. A useful source of information is the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS).

In this section you will find resources that introduce learners to these themes and strategies to help you embed them in specialist curriculum areas.

Resources for teacher educators

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• Cross curricular themes: CPD builder - Info 
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  Cross curricular themes: CPD builder - PDF Word 
• Planning to embed cross-curricular themes: An inter-departmental approach - Info 
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  Video - Quicktime Windows Media Player 
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  Enterprise toolkit: Videos, CPD activities and learner activities - Info and Web 
• Enterprise activities - Info 
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  Enterprise: Making a pitch - Word 
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  Enterprise: Planning projects - Word 
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  Enterprise: Skills, knowledge and attitudes required in successful entrepreneurs - Word 
• Enterprise key questions - Info 
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  Contextualising Enterprise for your subject or vocational area: Exploring the Enterprise key questions with a graphic organiser - PDF 
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  Contextualising Customer care for your subject or vocational area - Info and Web 
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  Contextualising Enterprise in your subject or vocational area - Info and Web 
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  Contextualising Health, safety and well-being in your subject or vocational area - Info and Web 
• Health, safety and well-being - Info 
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  Booklet - PDF 
• Customer care - Info 
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  Booklet - PDF 
• Enterprise - Info 
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  Booklet - PDF 
• Talking teaching, training and learning - Info 
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  Pedagogy cards - PDF 
• The tree of learning - Info 
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  The tree of learning: Guidance notes - Word 
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  The tree of learning poster - Word 

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