Pearson EDI · RQF Level 3
Pearson EDI Level 3 Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits24
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification22
Awarded by Pearson EDI · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson EDI registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Administering e-testingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Set up and maintain operational processes and procedures for e-testing
- Set up an e-testing environment
- Understand how to set up additional facilities and e-test areas to meet the needs of learners and non-standard e-testing situations
- Understand the administrative steps involved in preparing a learner to participate in an e-test session
- Run an e-test session
- Understand the administrative steps involved after the conclusion of an e-test session
- Evaluate own role and performance in the e-testing process
Co-ordinating e-testingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the operational running requirements for the e-testing process within the designated centre(s)
- Understand the critical success factors for running e-test sessions consistently and effectively
- Monitor and manage the performance of staff involved in the e-testing process
- Evaluate own role and performance in the e-testing process
- Understand the facilities and resources required for effective e-testing, and how to manage them effectively
Delivering Employability SkillsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between employability skills and employment skills
- Understand the personal qualities, skills and competencies needed for employability skills delivery
- Understand how to plan and deliver creative, innovative and inclusive sessions appropriate for employability skills delivery
- Understand how environment and personal presentation influence the success of employability skills training
- Understand how to use group contracts, rewards and penalties to reflect the workplace
- Understand the need for continuous personal development to reflect changing sector/marketplace requ
Equality and DiversityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of a culture which promotes equality and values diversity
- Understand the importance of the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity for effective work in the sector
- Understand and demonstrate behaviour appropriate to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity
- Understand how to actively help others in the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity
- Understand how to review own contribution to promoting equality and valuing diversity
- Understand how to review own contribution to promoting equality and valuing diversity
Equality and DiversityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of a culture which promotes equality and values diversity
- Understand the importance of the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity for effective work in the sector
- Understand and demonstrate behaviour appropriate to the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity
- Understand how to actively help others in the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity
- Understand how to review own contribution to promoting equality and valuing diversity
Evaluating Learning ProgrammesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of evaluating learning programmes
- Understand and use appropriate evaluation methods
- Understand how to collect and analyse data for the purpose of evaluating learning programmes
- Understand how evaluation results can be used to improve learning programmes.
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own practice
Invigilating e-testsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the quality standards and the requirements of the awarding body for an e-testing environment
- Understand the support that should be available for e-testing candidates
- Understand the role of the invigilator, its boundaries and how it integrates with other roles
- Invigilate an e-test session according to the requirements of the awarding body
- Evaluate own role and performance in the e-testing process
Planning and Enabling LearningReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand ways to negotiate appropriate individual goals with learners
- Understand how to plan for inclusive learning
- Understand how to use teaching and learning strategies and resources inclusively to meet curriculum requirements.
- Understand how to use a range of communication skills and methods to communicate effectively with learners and relevant parties in own organisation.
- Understand how reflection, evaluation and feedback can be used to develop own practice
Preparing for the Coaching RoleReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to coaching
- Understand ways to identify individual coaching needs
- Understand key techniques to establish and maintain an effective coaching relationship
- Understand how to review progress
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own practice
Preparing for the Coaching RoleReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to coaching
- Understand ways to identify individual coaching needs
- Understand key techniques to establish and maintain an effective coaching relationship
- Understand how to review progress
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own practice
Preparing for the Mentoring RoleReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilies in relation to mentoring
- Understand ways to identify individual mentoring needs
- Understand key techniques to establish and maintain an effective mentoring relationship
- Understand how to review progress
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own practice
Preparing for the Mentoring RoleReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilties in relation to mentoring
- Understand ways to identify individual mentoring needs
- Understand key techniques to establish and maintain an effective mentoring relationship
- Understand how to review progress
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own practice
Preparing learners for e-testingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes that are in place to prepare learners for e-testing
- Understand the e-testing environment in relation to learner requirements
- Understand the opportunities and support available to learners participating in e-testing
- Understand how to use practice e-tests effectively to help prepare learners for e-testing
- Ensure that the learner has sufficient knowledge of the e-testing process
- Evaluate own role and performance in the e-testing process
Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning SectorReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role, responsibilities and boundaries of role in relation to teaching.
- Understand appropriate teaching and learning approaches in the specialist area.
- Demonstrate session planning skills.
- Understand how to deliver inclusive sessions which motivate learners.
- Understand the use of different assessment methods and the need for record keeping.
Principles and Practice of AssessmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key concepts and principles of assessment.
- Understand and use different types of assessment
- Understand the strengths and limitations of a range of assessment methods, including, as appropriate, those which exploit new and emerging technologies.
- Understand the role of feedback and questioning in the assessment of learning.
- Understand how to monitor, assess, record and report learner progress and achievement to meet the requirements of the learning programme and the organisation.
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own practice.
Principles of Teaching and LearningReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the teacher’s role as leader, guide and mentor and the knowledge, skills and qualities needed
- Understand how and why people learn and different learning aims, needs and styles
- Understand commonly known theories of learning and intelligent behaviour
- Understand learning principles
- Understand teaching strategies and methods of teaching and the range of support materials and teaching aids available
- Understand the purpose of assessment, methods of assessment and the need for record keeping
- Understand how to manage teaching and learning
- Understand how to evaluate and develop own pr
Specialist Delivery Techniques and ActivitiesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a range of inclusive approaches to the employment of specialist delivery techniques and activities within the learning environment
- Understand how to develop inclusive specialist delivery techniques and advanced learning activities
- Demonstrate specialist delivery techniques and advanced learning activities
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of specialist delivery techniques and advanced learning activities
Teaching ICT SkillsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to carry out an ICT Skills training needs analysis
- Understand how to develop a scheme of work, session plan and teaching and learning resources for an ICT Skills session
- Deliver and evaluate an ICT session
- Understand how and why improvements to ICT planning and learning materials need to be made
Teaching and Learning PracticeReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and prepare to teach
- Use teaching and learning techniques
- Understand how to reflect on and develop teaching and learning strategies
- Make identified improvements for further practice
Technical support for e-testingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the technical aspects of the e-testing environment and processes
- Provide technical support to set up an e-testing environment (whether at the centre or remotely)
- Support the running of e-test sessions
- Evaluate own role and performance in the e-testing process
Using Technology in Teaching and TrainingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of using ICT in teaching and learning and how to plan appropriate use of ICT within a unit of learning
- Understand the functions, issues and use of delivery technologies in own specialist area
- Understand how to select and devise ICT based learning resources
- Understand how to make comments on or track changes to educational documents and communicate these to learners
- Understand how to plan and make use of ICT within a learning session
- Understand how to evaluate use of ICT and identify improvements for further practice
- Understand where ICT could be used in further s
Using a VLE in Teaching and LearningReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Navigate an on-line learning platform (Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or Intranet) in order to understand its main functions, benefits and associated issues
- Understand how to plan appropriate use of on-line learning within a unit of learning
- Use communication tools with learners or colleagues
- Understand how to select and devise content and make it available to learners
- Devise an interactive assessment, set up automated marking and feedback and monitor learner use of on-line communication tools and content
- Monitor learner progress, provide fe
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Where this can lead
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson EDI Level 3 Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (QCF)
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.
- Administering e-testing
- Co-ordinating e-testing
- Delivering Employability Skills
- Equality and Diversity
- Evaluating Learning Programmes
- Invigilating e-tests
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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