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Learning and skills teacher (level 5)

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Information about Learning and skills teacher (level 5)

Teaching young people and adults within all parts of the education and training sector.

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours:
  View knowledge, skills and behaviours

  Knowledge

  • The pedagogical theory and how to apply this theory to practice
  • How to support contextualized opportunities to develop English and Maths
  • The principles of designing, planning, and organising curriculum
  • Methods for creating and adapting inclusive learning resources
  • Evidence-informed inclusive teaching, learning and assessment strategies
  • Strategies to engage and challenge all learners
  • How to implement ongoing initial and diagnostic assessment to inform planning and progression
  • Techniques to involve learners in taking ownership of their own progress
  • Principles and practices of assessment and feedback
  • How to promote and foster a safe and supportive learning environment
  • Barriers to learning, and ways to overcome them and adapt teaching, learning and assessment
  • The range of support available for learners related to health, wellbeing and safeguarding
  • Sources of current information, advice, and guidance to support progression opportunities for learners
  • The requirements and implications of organisational policies and procedures, such as internal and external regulatory bodies and frameworks
  • Techniques to develop collaborative relationships
  • Communication techniques and how to adapt these for different audiences, including leading difficult conversations
  • Coaching and mentoring principles and techniques
  • Strategies for quality improvement
  • Ways to access personal and professional development, and to maintain sector and/or subject specific currency
  • Advances in digital, online, and emerging technologies and their application in the teaching environment and principles of digital and online safety

  Skills

  • Integrate subject and pedagogic research into teaching activity to enhance teaching and support changes of practice
  • Identify, consider and take steps to minimise the impact of barriers to learning
  • Contextualise English and mathematics in a way that promotes understanding of key topics
  • Use a variety of teaching and assessment methods depending on the learning environment and learners’ needs
  • Encourage learners to set challenging goals
  • Promote understanding of equality and diversity and sustainable development
  • Demonstrate through their teaching the wider context (policy, economic, societal, technological, legal, cultural and environmental) of the subject, recognising the implications for professional practice
  • Design and use resources that are inclusive and add value to learners’ development
  • Engage and inspire all learners
  • Identify and set outcomes to enable each learner to achieve or exceed targets
  • Provide ongoing learner feedback
  • Use the results of initial and diagnostic assessment to plan learning and differentiated support at the start of and throughout the learners' journey
  • Encourage learners to develop: autonomy and resilience, personal and interpersonal effectiveness, social awareness and respect for others, essential employability skills, a solutions mindset, and the ability to create change
  • Use assessment data to regularly review and develop own and others’ practice and to report emerging gaps in progression and achievement amongst groups of learners
  • Support the implementation and execution of safeguarding procedures and promote the welfare of children, young people and/or adults in accordance with statutory provisions
  • Prepare learners for their transition through education, further training, and into employment
  • Comply with internal and external regulations, legislation and guidance, such as: teaching, learning and assessment, recording, storing and sharing information relating to learners
  • Adapt communication style, method, and terminology to reflect the needs of the audience including individual learners, colleagues, stakeholders
  • Engage learners to establish standards of behaviour, mutual respect and safe working
  • Challenge learners to address inappropriate behaviour or viewpoints
  • Continually update and maintain their own knowledge and skills as a teaching professional and a subject specialist as part of managing their own continual professional development (CPD)
  • Be proactive in seeking and responding to feedback from varied sources including learner voice, peers, colleagues, employers and stakeholders to improve own practice
  • Manage workload through preparation and prioritisation, time management, and responsiveness to change
  • Act within, the statutory frameworks which set out their professional duties and responsibilities
  • Use innovative and up to date digital and online technologies in a way that is safe to improve teaching, learning and assessment

  Behaviours

  • Be resilient and adaptable when dealing with challenge and change, maintaining focus and self-control
  • Underpin their practice by reference to professional standards and evidence-based teaching and learning
  • Committed to continuous professional development
  • Act in a professional manner, and in a way that builds and maintains positive relationships with colleagues, students and stakeholders
  • Act in a manner that is ethical, fair, consistent and impartial, valuing equality, diversity and champion British values within professional boundaries
  • Model sustainable practices and promote sustainable development principles, values and goals in relation to their subject specialism
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Education and early years
• Qualification level: 5; Equal to higher national diploma (HND)
• Course duration: 18 months
• Maximum funding: £7,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
• Job titles include:
  • Education practitioner
  • Fe learning and skills teacher
  • Learning and skills practitioner
  • Learning and skills teacher
  • Lecturer
  • Tutor

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