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Lead Practitioner Tools

UFA Lead Practitioners

Lead Practitioners are trained to deliver a specific UFA programme back in their own setting. They play a crucial role in growing the UFA in their local area, and in sharing good practice nationally.

What are the benefits for you?

  • Build your personal capacity to deliver a range of high quality UFA learning experiences
  • Become a reflective practitioner, engaging in some simple action research
  • Support the building of the long-term capacity of your organisation
  • Further your professional development and CV building
  • Experience 3 Lead Practitioner programmes and join a network of UFA Fellows

Lead Practitioners are expected to go through a simple 3 step process to take the theory into practice and share their learning.

3 Steps to becoming a UFA Lead Practitioner:

STEP 1

  • Attend UFA Lead Practitioner training
  • Leave with the confidence and resources to lead your chosen UFA programme

STEP 2

  • Put your learning into practice.
  • Deliver the programme to young people in your own setting

STEP 3

  • Tell us about it
  • Use the UFA evaluation pack to collect data and record impact and return this information to us.

After your first return, your status as Lead Practitioner becomes active and we will send your Lead Practitioner certificate and badge.

If you deliver your programme to children and young people...


There are 3 separate questionnaires that we would like you to use to give us a full picture of the impact of the activity you have run:

  • Lead Practitioner Overview Survey:This collects information from about the programme you ran and captures some of your personal learning.
  • Young People's End of Activity Survey:This gets the view of the young people you delivered your activity to.
  • Home Survey: This gets the views of the parents of the young people you delivered your activity to, to see if they recognised any differences in their child/ren. You can get the views of all or some of the parents.

If you deliver your programme to parents & carers...


There are 2 separate questionnaires that we would like you to use to give us a full picture of the impact of the activity you have run:

  • Lead Practitioner Overview Survey:This collects information from about the programme you ran and captures some of your personal learning.
  • Parent as Learner Survey:This collects the views of the adults that participated in the training.

You may want to support your submission with photographs of the activity happening. We would love to see these, but please do make sure you have permissions from those concerned

What about the next time I run the programme?
We would strongly encourage you to use the evaluations tools each time you run the activity to give you a growing picture of the success of the programme. If you send your completed surveys back to UFA we will keep adding the information to a database which means that you could look at the success of your programme over a greater length of time. We would be able to send you a summative report of all your data at your request. However, there is no requirement that you have to do this.

When do I get my Lead Practitioner Certificate?
On receipt of all your surveys we will send you your certificate and badge. You are now a fully fledged UFA Lead Practitioner!

Lead Practitioner Overview Survey

 

Young People End of Activity Survey

 

UFA Home Survey

 

UFA Parents and Learners Survey