For Educators

SkillsMap® was created to help you answer those questions to support learners through pre-18 education and into work, and to recognise the longer term value their education has.

SkillsMap® is different to other skills platforms because rather than adding transferable skills into curriculum, it identifies the much broader and richer range of skills that you are already developing in your teaching with your learners, across every single subject area. It draws on the curriculum you already teach. But learners don’t know this unless we tell them.

In SkillsMap®, learners can pick any one of 36 subjects commonly taught in school and college at pre-16 and pre-18 levels, and find out about 15 of the transferable skills they develop in that subject. Learners can also pick two or three subjects together, and find out the skills those subjects have in common.

Each skill has a definition and four examples of how it might be used in different workplaces. This helps demonstrate why they are transferable. (If you are a teacher in England who is impacted by the Statutory Guidance and Benchmark 4 on Linking Curriculum to Careers, using this aspect of SkillsMap® will help you evidence this Benchmark really well).

It’s important to recognise that these 15 skills are just a sample of the 50-100 transferable skills developed in each of the subjects. The choice of skills in the sample should not be seen as a judgement of the relative value of each skill either by subject or overall; in other words, these are not seen as the most essential skills or the easiest or most difficult to learn, any of which would vary hugely across subjects and between learners. They are simply a representative sample across a range of different skill types, to help learners recognise those skills when they use them, and to help you get a conversation started about curriculum and transferable skills.

You can use this video with your learners to introduce them to SkillsMap®