Apprenticeship training course
Learning and skills teacher (level 5)
Teaching young people and adults within all parts of the education and training sector.
- Qualification level
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5
Equivalent to higher national diploma (HND). - Typical duration
- 18 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Education and early years
- Maximum funding
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£7,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Education practitioner
- FE learning and skills teacher
- Learning and skills practitioner
- Learning and skills teacher
- Lecturer
- Tutor
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- 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
Full information on Learning and skills teacher (level 5) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.
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Apprenticeship location
Solihull, West Midlands Remove location