Unit 1:
‘Understanding roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and training’
Covers the following topics:
• The teaching role and responsibilities in education and training, including:
– Key aspects of legislation, regulatory requirements and codes of practice
– Ways to promote equality and value diversity
– Identifying and meeting individual learner needs
• Ways to maintain a safe and supportive learning environment, including:
– How to promote appropriate behaviour and respect for others
• The relationships between teachers and other professionals in education and training, including:
– Working with other professionals
– Boundaries between the teaching role and other professional roles
– Points of referral to meet the individual needs of learners.
Unit 2:
‘Understanding and using inclusive teaching and learning approaches in education and training’
Covers the following topics:
• Inclusive teaching and learning approaches in education and training, including:
– The features of inclusive teaching and learning
– The strengths and limitations of teaching and learning approaches in relation to meeting individual learner needs
– Why it is important to provide opportunities for learners to develop their English, mathematics, ICT and wider skills
• Ways to create an inclusive teaching and learning environment, including:
– Selecting teaching and learning approaches, resources and assessment methods to meet individual learner needs
– Engaging and motivating learners
– Establishing ground rules
• Planning inclusive teaching and learning, including:
– Devising an inclusive teaching and learning plan
– Justifying the selection of teaching and learning approaches, resources and assessment methods in relation to meeting individual learner needs
• Delivering inclusive teaching and learning, including:
– Using teaching and learning approaches, resources and assessment methods to meet individual learner needs
– Communicating with learners in ways that meet their individual needs
– Providing constructive feedback to learners to meet their individual needs
• Evaluating the delivery of inclusive teaching and learning, including:
– Reviewing the effectiveness of the delivery of inclusive teaching and learning
– Identifying areas for improvement in the delivery of inclusive teaching and learning.
Unit 3:
‘Understanding assessment in education and training’
Covers the following topics:
• Types and methods of assessment, including:
– The purposes of types of assessment
– The characteristics of different methods of assessment
– The strengths and limitations of different assessment methods in relation to meeting individual learner needs
– How different assessment methods can be adapted to meet individual needs
• How to involve learners and others in the assessment process, including:
– The role and use of peer and self-assessment
– Identifying sources of information that should be made available
• The role and use of constructive feedback in the assessment process, including
– The key features of constructive feedback
– How constructive feedback contributes to the assessment process
– Ways to give constructive feedback to learners
• Requirements for keeping records of assessment.
Profits from this course go towards free training for disadvantaged young people.