Course description
The primary purpose of this qualification is to develop and confirm your occupational knowledge, competence and skills when working in a job role in a specialist area and/or across a varied range of responsibilities under the direction of a teacher who has overall responsibility for teaching and learning in a classroom.
This NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning qualification is ideal for those looking to pursue a career as a teaching assistant. On successful completion of your course, you will become a qualified teaching assistant.
The course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to support pupils in primary, secondary, or SEN schools with their learning. You’ll learn more about how your role can ensure the safety and protection of children and young people in the learning environment; how to provide maths, English, and ICT support for learners; and how to provide support for the speech, language, and communication development of children and young people in a learning environment.
You’ll gain exceptional personal development skills to benefit your teaching assistant career as well as vital experience carrying out reflective practice which is essential to the role.
The Level 3 Supporting Teaching and Learning nested qualification VLHS’s range of Level 3 Supporting Teaching and Learning qualifications sit within NCFE CACHE’s nested suite of courses. Students can top up their studies to achieve the full nested qualification if they desire, or study one qualification type alone. The nested qualification starts with the award, then the certificate, and finally the diploma.
Each of the courses in this nested qualification will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to work with children and young people in primary, secondary, or SEN schools, allowing you to become a fully qualified teaching assistant on completion of the course.
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
You must be 16 or over to enrol and working or volunteering within a school setting.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
You will receive your NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning.
Training Course Content
Course modules - Mandatory
- Unit 1: Understand Children’s and Young People’s Development
- Unit 2: Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People
- Unit 3: Support Children’s and Young People’s Health and Safety
- Unit 4: Engage in personal development in children & young people’s settings
- Unit 5: Support learning activities
- Unit 6: Promote children’s and young people’s positive behaviour
- Unit 7: Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults
- Unit 8: Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in work with children and young people
- Unit 9: Support assessment for learning
- Unit 10: Communication and professional relationships with children, young people and adults
- Unit 11: Schools as organisations
- Unit 12: Support children’s speech, language and communication
- Unit 13: Support disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs
- Unit 14: Support children and young people with behaviour, emotional and social development needs
Course delivery details
Course Content
- Schools and colleges as organisations
- Support health and safety in a learning environment
- Understand how to safeguard children and young people
- Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults
- Understand how children and young people develop
- Support positive behaviour in children and young people
- Support children and young people during learning activities
- Support English and maths skills*
- Support the use of ICT in the learning environment
- Support assessment for learning
- Engage in personal and professional development
- Support children and young people’s speech, language and communication
- Understand how to support bilingual learners
- Understand how to support learning of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
- Support children and young people during transitions
- Support the role of play, leisure and extra-curricular activities for children and young people
Assessment
Students will be required to complete a number of assignments. Your personal tutor will review, mark and provide you with feedback on your work.
All units are internally assessed. Assessment enables the learner’s workplace practice to provide evidence for individual units as well as the whole qualification. This course requires an assessment of your practical skills within your working environment. It is essential that you secure a placement that can provide you with a suitably qualified teacher and workplace assessor who can observe you, comment on your skills and write a report to meet the assessment requirements. This direct observation will be used as evidence towards your qualification.
Methods of assessment could include:
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Direct observation of practice
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Witness evidence when directed by the sector skills assessment strategy
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Professional discussion
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Reflection on own practice in real work situations
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Written assignments
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Over 85% of users who enroll in Virtue Learning Hub Solutions courses successfully complete their training, significantly higher than the industry average of 40-60%.
Virtue Learning Hub Solutions offers a range of specialized courses across various industries, including Education and Training, Healthcare, Childcare, and Supporting Teaching and Learning.
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