Education for citizenship secondary audit materials
PDF file: Secondary Audit Materials (426 KB)
These materials support the audit of education for citizenship in secondary education. They aim to assist in reviewing existing practice in your school or college. The material consists of:
Orientation materials
Good for use at school or department-based in-service days to familiarise staff with the main elements of the framework for education for citizenship.
Audit questionnaires
Four questionnaires to assist schools in accounting for and evaluating current provision for education for citizenship. The questionnaires can also be accessed individually - see below.
Discussion materials
Materials for use with young people to support discussion of education for citizenship and assess the extent to which they have engaged with the ideas.
Secondary audit questionnaires
There are four questionnaires, one for each context of development. The first three are for completion by the headteacher or a representative with input from other staff. Teachers with subject responsibilities will complete the fourth questionnaire in consultation with their departments. LT Scotland has prepared support materials to help subject teachers complete it.
A full review of existing practice will require using all four together, but you may prefer to select one or two for use in the first year and others in later years.
Word file: Secondary education for citizenship questionnaire - participation by young people in decision making (16 KB)B:
Word file: Secondary education for citizenship questionnaire - cross-curricular activities (13 KB)C:
Word file: Secondary education for citizenship questionnaire - school-community links (15 KB)D:
Word file: Secondary education for citizenship questionnaire - studies within departments (23 KB)Collating the responses
Word file: Secondary audit collation materials (48 KB)
The secondary audit can yield a lot of information, particularly in response to Questionnaire D: Studies within Departments. In consultation with schools, LT Scotland has prepared these collation materials to assist schools in gathering the information in a way that can be shared between departments. Some of the key issues raised by Questionnaire D are:
- opportunities for sharing of good practice
- areas where inter-departmental discussion would be fruitful
- progression issues
- areas of education for citizenship where total departmental responses are thin
- departments with low awareness of education for citizenship.