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

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This revised edition is updated for the new qualification requirements and the Professional Standards for Teachers and Trainers. All questions are cross-referenced to the unit's assessment criteria and are written in an easy to understand way. The minimum core is part of this unit. stimulate learning, add impact and promote interest in your subject. If you can search the internet, you might Assessment is a way of finding out if learning has taken place. It enables you to ascertain if your learner has gained the required skills, knowledge, understanding and/or attitudes and behaviours needed at a given point in time towards their learning programme.

If you wish, you can change and adapt the questions as all assignments are supplied as electronicWord documents.

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available. However, the assignment questions can help assessors to understand how they can support their learners towards achieving the unit. You should be qualified and/or experienced in the subject you wish to teach. Youremployer decides what this is (it can differ depending upon where you work), in conjunction with the requirements for the subject you will teach. Learners need to be motivated for learning to take place. Motivation can be intrinsic(from within i.e. a desire to learn somethingnew), or external (from without i.e. a pay rise if they achieve a qualification). Knowing what motivates a learner can help you to make their learning more relevant to them.

You can take an introductory qualification called the Award in Education and Training to find out more about teaching and learning. Many of the vocational and technical qualifications that Ofqual regulates have the following three characteristics in common: The book helps learners to understand the requirements of the qualification and to evidence their achievement towards the five mandatory units (see below). Other resources include: interactive andelectronicwhiteboards; e-learning platforms; audio and visual materials, and other aspects of technology.Alternatively, assessment can be solely online; for example, when a learner is taking an online course, their assessment will also be online. 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. Contents specifically follow the teaching, learning and assessment cycle, and match the qualification requirements.