The Award in Education and Training (Further Education and Skills)

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You canamend or update the content to suit your own requirements. For example, you could add your logo, graphics, pictures, and links to appropriate videos. Alternatively, you could adapt the text and presenter notes to become online learning materials. These are designed to be delivered in2-4 hours (4-6 hours for the Diploma) depending upon your style of delivery and the number of activities you carry out with your learners (guidance is given). All questions are cross-referenced to the criteria of this unit, and the other three mandatory units, to enable an holistic approach to assessment. They are written in an easy to understand way, and include guidance as to how to approach each question. This unit includes an evaluation of a learning programme. the work of others is used in teaching and learning materials, it should always be correctly referenced, otherwise

Exemplar answers are available for some of the theory units as a guide to aid marking and standardisation. They must not to be given to learners under any circumstances and are only sold on this basis. answers to questions being obtained inappropriately by learners, which leads to cheating e.g. gained online, from another learner, or via artificial technology (AI) Provides valuable support for prospective teachers and trainers with little or no previous experience. In comparison with General Qualifications, including GCSEs and A levels, CASLO qualifications are documented less comprehensively, researched less thoroughly, and theorised less well. Although individual assessment organisations (AOs) may know how their qualifications work, knowledge of this sort is not easy to access. Where information has been made available, i.e. in qualification specifications, handbooks, and suchlike, this has tended to be at a very practical level. The principles underpinning the effective operation of CASLO qualifications, especially in relation to quality assurance, appear never to have been articulated.e.g. general advice such as welfare, health or finance. Learning support relates to the subject; e.g. study I have co-written international and national teaching qualifications for several awarding organisations, as well as working for them in a compliance and quality assurance capacity. I am based in East Yorkshire, England (UK). I have delivered events in various parts of the UK, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Contents specfically follow the teaching and learning cycle and match the qualification requirements. I just wanted to let you know how many hours you have saved me. I was struggling to know how to approach the assessments, but your materials have made things so much easier." P Wardle

process using a variety of teaching, learning and assessment approaches and activities. Due to Covid-19, a lot of learning moved online. You will need to find out from your organisation if they expect you to use certain electronic applications and devices for this purpose, and whether they will provide them or not. You are responsible for ensuring the units and credit values meet the rules of combination (where applicable). This revised edition is updated for the new qualification requirements and the Professional Standards for Teachers and Trainers.If you are working towards the Certificate in Education and Training, this user friendly text is the ideal book for you. Incorporate the knowledge and experience of your learners and, if you can, give relevant anecdotes from your own experiences to bring the subject to life. Try and relate what you are teaching to how your learners will benefit from it.

Don't forget to assess that learning has taken place. If you feel you are overrunning on your timings, don’t be afraid to carry something over to the next session, cut it out altogether, or give it as homework or self-study material. Alternatively, you can adjust the timings of the other activities to reduce or increase them as necessary. Don’t feel you must keep to the number of minutes you have written on your session plan for each activity. It’s more important to ensure learning is taking place than to keep to your timings.

50 Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance Approaches

issues or disruptions would be wonderful, but this very rarely happens. It could simply be a learner asking to go and get a drink of water, which is a This complete guide covers all the content of the five mandatory units, along with guidance for the optional units, the minimum core, reflection and observed teaching practice.The minimum core has been updated since the book was published.

Ofqual refer to them as CASLO qualifications because they require assessors to Confirm the Acquisition of Specified Learning Outcomes. Apart from these three defining characteristics, CASLO qualifications take many different forms. Alternatively, assessment can be solely online; for example, when a learner is taking an online course, their assessment will also be online. I have been working in further education since 1983, and I have been writing, co-writing and editing text books for SAGE Publications since 2006.

Principles of assessment relate to how the assessment process is put into practice. Two important principles are known