Graduate Employability Skills
UTS is a forward looking university, ranked 9th in Australia based on research, teaching, employability and internationalisation. Its approach to learning enables its students to build strong professional identities, future-focused graduate capabilities and global citizenship. The big challenge is how to integrate this sort of learning into every programme of study and ensure that the development of future capabilities and thinking skills is an entitlement for all students, whatever they are studying and wherever they have come from.
CLIENT BRIEF
Help us embed learning journeys into our core programmes, by supporting our academics and students to experience and facilitate self-leadership in learning, coaching-for-learning relationships and thinking skills for complex problem solving across our faculties.
HOW WE WENT ABOUT IT
Piloted Learning Journeys across faculties and disciplines.
Worked with Academics to enable them to integrate learning journeys in their subjects.
Trained student leaders to be Learning Power Coaches and facilitate coaching groups.
WHAT WE DID
Worked with Academics and Professional staff in developing Coaching-for-Learning skills and learning design for student agency.
Developed six student learning power ‘archetypes’ for facilitating Academics to design the most appropriate interventions for whole classes and individuals.
Analysed learning power data to understand patterns and relationships between learning power and other student characteristics and student achievement.
Integrated Learning Journeys across different subject areas.
Included Stories of Significant change in assessment for student capstone projects.
WHAT WORKED
Developed a language for Learning Journeys across disciplines.
Professional Learning Journeys for Academics focused on designing and facilitating students’ self-directed learning.
Increased student confidence in developing their graduate employability skills.
Peer coaching triads as a way of scaling up and culture change.
Used Learning Journeys for student internship experiences in industry