Learning - Get Me the Producer

To encourage students to develop and understand the importance of Skills for Working Life, such as teamwork; communication skills; leadership skills; managing people; generating ideas, being creative; preparing thoroughly and 'thinking through'; planning and organising; time management; flexibility and adaptability; meeting deadlines; and working under pressure
To enable students to consider and explore how teams form and perform
To give students an insight into the challenges, excitement and stresses of working on television
To widen students' understanding of television as a medium, and to show the issues involved in making live TV.

Work-related learning

This is statutory for all students at key stage 4. Students should:

Recognise, develop and apply their skills for enterprise and employability
Learn about the way business enterprises operate, working roles and conditions, and rights and responsibilities in the work place
Have experience (direct or indirect) of working practices and environments.

Enterprise education

Enterprise capability – to create and implement new ideas and ways of doing things; handle uncertainty and respond positively to change; make reasonable risk/reward assessments and act upon them in one's personal and working life
Business and economic understanding – to understand the business context and make informed choices between alternative uses of scarce resources.

Work-related education

Understanding the changing demands of working life and its main economic features
Having positive, adaptable and enterprising attitudes to lifelong learning and employment.

Learning for Life and Work Area*

Excellence through Enterprise*

Enterprising learning and teaching which encourages positive attitudes and develops skills such as problem solving, decision making and evaluating tasks
Career education, which includes a focus on entrepreneurship.

* These curriculum frameworks are still provisional

Channel 4's Citizenship and PSHE website

Notes to support Channel 4 Learning programmes

Full listings for the week ahead, plus downloadable wallcharts for this term