The tool was developed from the project Teaching Employability Skills which was designed to assist teachers in vocational education to embed ways to enhance employability skills within their teaching practices. The aim was to improve learning by producing a toolkit of ideas and teaching strategies drawn from case studies of current practice across a range of contexts. The focus was not on what the students do or say, but rather the strategies teachers used to enable or encourage these skills in the learners.
The guiding research question was: How are teachers in Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics (ITPs) embedding employability skills into their teaching practices?