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See the opportunities that effective partnership working can bring to your stakeholders. Compare different partnership arrangements with your own, identify opportunities and reflect on challenges.

Consider the factors involved in selecting the options and disciplines to be covered in your Diploma. Then complete a template to rate them against each factor.

There is a wide range of ways that employers can make an effective contribution to Diploma delivery. Consider the suggestions provided, and adapt them to your context and line of learning.

This activity focuses on the connection between the work experience element of the Diploma and other Diploma learning elements.

This activity asks you to undertake a review of teaching and learning strategies in relation to applied learning, and to use this analysis to plan how to incorporate applied learning within your Diploma teaching.

This self-evaluation activity provides an opportunity for you to review Diploma learning activities against the principles of assessment for learning (AfL).

Clarify the internal assessment procedures for effective delivery of your Diploma. Use a checklist of the key features of internal assessment, contribute to consortium discussion and create an action plan.

A checklist to adapt and use in discussions with employers. Use it as a focus and a prompt in initial discussions with each employer who expresses an interest or is approached to join the consortium.

Following an initial reflection, undertake research to help you in determining the parameters of your role and responsibilities in delivering the Diploma.

For subject specialists: Develop your ability to seek out subject learning in and from occupations and professions.

Identify where PLTS are already being developed and the value of PLTS in an example job role related to your line of learning.

For a Diploma level and principal learning unit (or assignment) of your choice, identify opportunities for developing PLTS, the evidence that might arise and how a learner might be helped to progress.

This activity will help you develop your understanding of embedded approaches to functional skills delivery and consider the approaches being taken in your line of learning.

This activity will help you develop your understanding of functional skills in order to assess learners' progress, which will inform your assessment decisions.

This activity takes you through some ideas for creating and collating IAG materials. They can be used with learners at a number of points, including before they make their choice to study for a Diploma.

A case study about the IAG provision for Diploma recruitment. Review your own provision in the light of the issues raised, and consider suggestions to help improve learner success and staying-on rates.

Advice on planning progression routes and choices of additional and specialist learning.

Map your Diploma line of learning to further and higher education opportunities and employment contexts, then develop an action plan to build networks and personalise learning.

Research local resources for pastoral and learning support and decide who could benefit from them. Identify further support mechanisms in order to help your consortium to develop them.