LCVP - Where to begin

Plumella

I found out on Friday that our school is to teach the LCVP programme, and that I will be the only teacher of the programme. :eek:
LCVP has not been taught in the school before, and no one in the school has experiance with the topic. As a result I have spent yesterday and today researching and gathering as much information as I can about the programme (for which there is a huge volume on slss website) but it has scared me and had left me feeling swamped by it all - yet no clearer on where to begin tomorrow morning.

Anyone else teach this programme, and if so what do you normally start with? Also I will only have students once a week for 35 mins, is this normal? Do the students do most of the work at home? Any advice welcomed and thank you

bdoo

First thing would be to check that all students qualify - if they don't you need to get shut of them. If they have nothing to gain they will subvert the class.

Start by telling them about all the hard work and give them a list pc things they must submit I would leave off the recorded interviews if I were you they just make work for you.

I haven't taught it in a long time so I'd only be guessing if I gave you a list of things, I do have our lcvp plan somewhere I can email it to you if you like, it's up to date I hot it for an interview before the summer had to swot up on it!

easterbride

We have LCVP in our school and students get two classes per week. As OP stated ensure that they all qualify for the subject, they need to have certain subject combinations:
SPECIALIST GROUPINGS
1. Construction Studies or Engineering or Technical Drawing (any two)
2. Physics and Construction Studies or Engineering
3. Agricultural Science and Construction Studies or Engineering
4. Agricultural Science and Chemistry or Physics or Physics & Chemistry
(combined)
5. Home Economics and Agricultural Science or Biology
6. Home Economics and Art
7. Accounting or Business or Economics (any two)
8. Physics and Chemistry
9. Biology and Chemistry or Physics or Physics & Chemistry (combined)
SERVICES GROUPINGS
10. Engineering and Business or Accounting or Economics
11. Construction Studies and Business or Accounting or Economics
12. Home Economics and Business or Accounting or Economics
13. Agricultural Science and Business or Accounting or Economics
14. Art and Business or Accounting or Economics
15. Music and Business or Accounting or Economics.

One of our teachers set up an email address and encouraged students to send their work via email to be corrected, he said it is a good way to monitor work and save paper and ink. There is a text book available which we also use in our school, it might be worth getting.

Chilli Con Kearney

The recommended class allocation is three in fifth year and two in sixth year.

I would check who can qualify for the subject.

For tomorrow, you could start with the CV. Get the pupils to discuss what headings, key information, etc. should be included. Then get them to write up the start of their own CV for the next day, in light of what you discuss tomorrow.

One period a week is not enough. You will end up giving after school classes, lunch time, etc. When it comes to past paper revision, you will not get much done in one period, in fact you will not even get the audio visual done and corrected/feedback on answers to pupils. You will end up putting in at least two periods of work at home for one period in school, minimum. I would push for another.

bdoo

I commented in staffroom last year that I thought bonus points for honours maths would impact on numbers taking lcvp. I was tut tutted out the door!

Speaking to fifth years in my school on Friday the talk was its 'only' 70 points and that's if you get a distinction.

My thinking at the time was that of you could scrape the d3 in maths you would have 70 points. a committed student, if such a thing exists, could easily spend their lcvp time doing the extra work for maths.

It seems that this has been spotted by the students too.

Is my school unique or do ye think that this will be a problem, effectively wiping out the kids who would have been getting distinctions AMD leaving weak lcvp classes?

Lcvp is optional in my school, it wasn't in the school I went to, I resented that and felt that my time could have been better spent. It was in its infancy then and is much better now I do concede. Is the optional / compulsory debate an issue in your school?

Chilli Con Kearney

I think that you are spot on Bdoo, about the bonus points. The pupils have to put in a serious effort to get over the distinction mark and the percentage who do so is not that high. They see it as easier (since this year) to plug away at HL maths and get the bonus points. Add to this the fact that (like the OP) the LCVP class gets very little contact time and can even be after school, then it's a no brainer from the pupils' point of view when making the decision to take on LCVP or not, versus putting in the extra time to maths.

Little Fairy

Check out the slss website there maybe an inservice coming up on LCVP that you could attend.
Good Luck with it.