Being Awards Aware
Introduction
Demonstrate your awards awareness by becoming Awards Aware today!
Awards Aware Scheme sign-up
Organisations and individuals subscribing to the Awards Aware scheme are agreeing to support young people to engage in learning activities which support their learning and development, and more importantly provide rich experiences which celebrate all the things young people can learn, do and achieve in Scotland.
1. Core Principles
The principles of being awards aware are:
- Putting individuals at the centre of their learner journey
- Crafting experiences which spark a desire to learn and succeed through immersive and imaginative experiences
- Providing time to reflect on knowledge, skills and experiences, to transfer learning into wider life, leisure and learning contexts
2. Awards Intelligence
- Be aware of the Awards Finder resource to find awards which match needs and interests of individuals
- Sign up for regular newsletters
- Request an awards advice surgery
- Show evidence of engaging young people in awards programmes
3. Choose your Awards Aware category
Choose the category that most closely applies to you. Your chosen category will present a list of actions that you should aspire to deliver.
- Promote awareness of youth awards to young people and encourage participation
- Value youth awards, whether school-led or independently pursued
- Include youth awards in curriculum options for young people
- Adopt an equalities approach to facilitating opportunities for all pupils to pursue youth awards as part of their learner pathways
- Develop intelligence of youth awards available in the local learning community and seek to capture the outside school achievements of young people
- Celebrate achievement of youth awards e.g. at Assemblies or end-of-year prize-giving ceremonies
- Develop understanding of opportunities available through youth awards to raising attainment for all
- Promote recording of non-academic achievements in pupil profiles
- Appoint an Awards Aware Champion
- Recognise non-formal awards within our recruitment practice as a normal and bona fide element of a candidate’s qualifications portfolio
- Recognise the value of soft-skills, relationship-skills and other intangible personality features as part of a candidate’s employment potential
- Encourage young candidates to demonstrate their employment potential by reference to the totality of their learning
- Offer opportunities for our young employees to (continue to) work towards achievement of youth awards, to their mutual benefit
- Promote the value of youth awards as learner pathways in our engagement with schools / colleges
- Develop awareness of youth awards that might be achieved directly and indirectly through participation in your youth programmes and highlight these to your participants
- Encourage achievement of youth awards as evidence of positive learning outcomes
- Celebrate achievement of youth awards
- Encourage young people to report and record their achievements as appropriate externally (e.g. school profiles; higher education / job applications)
- Value youth awards as evidence of learning and achievement
- Recognise the benefits of youth awards to CV-building
- Encourage recording and celebration of achievement
- Promote youth awards as challenging and fun routes to positive destinations
4. Registration
Register today to start becoming Awards Aware and learning the distinctive difference of non-formal Awards.
