Ascentis · RQF Level 5
ASCENTIS Level 5 Diploma 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 5
- Total credits120
- Guided learning260 hours
- Units in this qualification50
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Ascentis 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.
Action ResearchReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features and purpose of action research
- Understand and demonstrate procedures to be used when initiating action research.
- Understand and apply action research methodology.
- Understand and demonstrate how to collect, present and analyse appropriate data.
- Understand and demonstrate how to present research conclusions
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own practice
Action learning to support development of subject specialist pedagogyReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify an area of interest relevant to the teaching of their specialist subject area
- Understand how to investigate current good practice in their own subject specialist area
- Understand how to work with others to improve own skills in reflective practice
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own practice
- Understand how to apply learning from the investigation to own practice
- Understand and demonstrate how to present findings.
Continuing personal and professional developmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of the teacher in the lifelong learning sector.
- Understand theories and principles of reflective practice, and models of continuing personal and professional development
- Understand own need for continuous personal and professional self development.
- Understand and demonstrate ways in which engagement in CPPD activities has improved own practice.
Curriculum development for inclusive practiceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of contexts in which education and training are offered in the lifelong learning sector
- Understand theories, principles and models of curriculum design and implementation and their impact on teaching and learning
- Understand the significance ofequality and diversity for curriculum design, and take opportunities to promote equality within practice.
- Understand and demonstrate how to apply theories, principles and models to curriculum development and practice.
- Understand how to evaluate and improve own practice in inclusive curriculum design and development
Delivering Employability SkillsReal unit · Ascentis
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
Developing Numeracy Knowledge and UnderstandingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge andunderstanding of the originsof mathematics knowledgeand the application of relevantlearning theories oncurriculum development,learning and teaching
- Apply specialist pedagogicalknowledge and understandingto promote and develop thequality of numeracy learningand teaching in a variety ofcontexts
- Demonstrate ownmathematics skills,knowledge and understandingto an appropriate breadth anddepth
- Demonstrate knowledgeand understanding ofhow to use specialistorganisations andpublications to developown practice as anumeracy teacher
Developing and Managing Resources within the Lifelong Learning SectorReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand types of resources and their purpose
- Understand and demonstrate how to produce resources
- Understand ways to ensure that resources are inclusive
- Understand and demonstrate ways of using and managing resources
- Understand legal requirements and responsibilities in relation to use of resources
- Understand how to evaluate and improve own use of resources
Developing and Managing Resources within the Lifelong Learning SectorReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand types of resources and their purpose
- Understand and demonstrate how to produce resources
- Understand ways to ensure that materials are inclusive
- Understand and demonstrate ways of using and managing resources
- Understand legal requirements and responsibilities in relation to use of resources
- Understand how to evaluate and improve own use of resources
ESOL Learning and TeachingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Plan language and litreacylearning and teaching usingspecialist knowledge andresources
- Work with learners onlanguage and litreacy learningand development drawing onknowledge of theirbackgrounds, goals, abilitiesand disabilities
- Use knowledge of languagesystems and approaches tolearning and teaching inworking with learners onlitreacy and language learningand development
- Collabourate with others tosupport the inclusion oflanguage and litreacy in othercurricula areas
- Use specialist approaches todifferent types of languageand litreacy assessment
- Understand ways ofevaluating and developingown p
ESOL Theories and FrameworksReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledgeand understanding of theoriesand principles relating tolanguage acquisition andlearning
- Demonstrate a knowledgeand understanding of theoriesand principles relating tolitreacy learning anddevelopment
- Demonstrate a knowledgeand understanding of howlanguage can be describedand analysed
- Demonstrate a knowledgeand understanding of theprocesses involved inlistening, reading, speakingand writing
ESOL and the learnersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of language variety
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the factors which influence language and litreacy acquisition and learning
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of language change
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the relationship between language and social processes
Effective Partnership Working in the Learning and Teaching ContextReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and purpose of partnership working
- Understand the structure and management of a specific partnership
- Understand the purpose and aims of a specific partnership
- Understand how to measure and communicate results of partnership outputs
- Understand and demonstrate effective communication with partners
- Understand the wider context within which the partnership operates
Effective Partnership Working in the Learning and Teaching ContextReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and purpose of partnership working
- Understand the structure and management of a specific partnership
- Understand the purpose and aims of a specific partnership
- Understand how to measure and communicate results of partnership outputs
- Understand and demonstrate effective communication with partners
- Understand the wider context within which the partnership operates
Enabling learner independence and self determination for specialist teachers of learners with cognitive learning difficulties _excluding specialist dyslexia provision_Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to promote equality of opportunity and challenge discriminatory practice.
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the importance of developing and promoting self advocacy skills with learners
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of a multi sensory approach to support learning
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of personal responsibilities when collecting and disseminating personal information about learners
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to actively plan for the transfer and generalisation of learning bet
Enabling learning and assessmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories, principles and applications of formal and informal assessment and their roles in learning and evaluation.
- Understand the significance of equality and diversity issues for the assessment of learning.
- Understand and demonstrate how to plan/design and conduct formal and informal assessment to enable learning and progression
- Understand and demonstratehow to give effective feedback to promote learner progress and achievement
- Understand and demonstrate knowledge of the minimum core in own practice.
- Understand how to evaluate and improve own assessment practice
Equality and DiversityReal unit · Ascentis
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
Implementing embedded approaches for developing subject focused skillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of embedded approaches in learning and teaching
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to support learning in an area of specialism for learners with litreacy, language and/or numeracy needs
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to use active learning approaches
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to evaluate and improve own practice within an embedded approach
Inclusive PracticeReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors that influence learning
- Understand how legislation related to inclusive practice impacts on organisations
- Understand legal and contractual responsibilities and role boundaries in relation to inclusive practice
- Understand how to manage an inclusive learning environment
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own inclusive practice
Inclusive PracticeReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors that influence learning
- Understand how legislation related to inclusive practice impacts on organisations
- Understand legal and contractual responsibilities and role boundaries in relation to inclusive practice
- Understand how to manage an inclusive learning environment
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own inclusive practice
Inclusive learning and communication for specialist teachers of learners with cognitive learning difficulties _excluding specialist provision for dyslexia_Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of society’s attitude towards people with learning difficulties
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the impact of policy developments on learning opportunities for learners with learning difficulties
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the principles of working inclusively with learners with cognitive learning difficulties
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the learning and teaching theories related to cognitive development and people with learning difficulties
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of theories
Integrating literacy, language and numeracy into the learning of vocational and other subjectsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the role of litreacy, language and numeracy skills for the individual, community and the economy
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of key features of successful integrated approaches
- Have an understanding of organisational practice in relation to the integration of litreacy, language and numeracy into learning programmes
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the importance of English for learner achievement and employment
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the importance of Mathematics for learner achievement and employm
Literacy Learning and TeachingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Plan litreacy and languagelearning and teaching usingspecialist knowledge andresources
- Work with learners onlanguage and litreacy learningand development drawing onknowledge of theirbackgrounds goals andindividual needs
- Use knowledge of languagesystems and approaches tolearning and teaching inworking with learners onlitreacy and language learningand development
- Collabourate with others tosupport the inclusion oflitreacy and language invocational and other subjectareas
- Use specialist approaches todifferent types of litreacy andlanguage assessment
- Understand ways ofevaluating and develop own
Literacy Theories and FrameworksReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledgeand understanding of theoriesand principles relating tolanguage acquisition andlearning
- Demonstrate a knowledgeand understanding of theoriesand principles relating tolitreacy learning anddevelopment
- Demonstrate a knowledgeand understanding of howlanguage can be describedand analysed
- Demonstrate a knowledgeand understanding of theprocesses involved inreading, writing, speaking andlistening
Literacy and the learnersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of language variety
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the factors which influence litreacy and language learning and development
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of language change
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the relationship between language and social processes
Literacy, ESOL and the learnersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of language variety
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the factors which influence litreacy and language acquisition, learning and use
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of language change
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the relationship between language and social processes
Managing and responding to behaviours in a learning environmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics and impact of a range of behaviours that may occur in the learning environment.
- Understand legislation and organisational policies relating to managing behaviour in the learning environment.
- Understand and demonstrate how to encourage behaviours that contribute to an effective learning environment
- Understand and demonstrate how to manage behaviours that disrupt an effective learning environment
- Understand how to evaluate and improve own practice in managing different behaviours in the learning environment.
Managing behaviours in the learning environmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key factors that can lead to behaviours that disrupt the learning environment
- Understand organisational policies relating to managing behaviour in the learning environment
- Understand and demonstrate how to encourage behaviours that contribute to an effective learning environment
- Understand how to manage behaviours that disrupt an effective learning environment
- Understand how to evaluate and improve own practice in managing behaviours that disrupt the learning environment
Numeracy Learning and TeachingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge andunderstanding of how to useappropriate learning andteaching strategies, includingassessment for learning, innumeracy
- Apply specialist knowledgeand understanding to theplanning of numeracyteaching and learning
- Demonstrate appropriatelearning and teachingstrategies that create asupportive numeracylearning environment
- Demonstrate the use ofassessment strategies tosupport and develop learningin numeracy
- Demonstrate knowledgeand understanding of how toaddress diversity andinclusion effectively innumeracy
- Demonstrate knowledge andunderstanding of howreciprocal relations
Numeracy and the learnersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the impact of learner background and popular perceptions of mathematics and their roles on mathematics and numeracy learning
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how to identify the attainment and aspirations of numeracy learners
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of own mathematics skills, knowledge and understanding to an appropriate breadth and depth
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the different ways in which language/litreacy skills are integral to learners’ achievement in mathematics and numeracy
Planning and Enabling LearningReal unit · Ascentis
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 good practice.
Planning and Enabling LearningReal unit · Ascentis
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 good practice
Planning and assessing for inclusive practice _ESOL_Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate ways to negotiate and plan for inclusive practice.
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of theories, principles and applications of formal and informal assessment and their role in inclusive learning
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to give effective feedbackto promote learner progressand achievement
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to use teaching and learning resources inclusively to meet curriculum requirements.
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the minimum core in own practice.
Planning and assessing for inclusive practice _Literacy_Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate ways to negotiate and plan for inclusive practice.
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of theories, principles and applications of formal and informal assessment and their role in inclusive learning
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to give effective feedbackto promote learner progressand achievement
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to use teaching and learning resources inclusively to meet curriculum requirements
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the minimum core in own practice.
Planning and assessing for inclusive practice _Numeracy_Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate ways to negotiate and plan for inclusive practice
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of theories, principles and applications of formal and informal assessment and their role in inclusive learning
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to give effective feedbackto promote learner progressand achievement
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to use teaching and learning resources inclusively to meet curriculum requirements
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the minimum core in own practice
Planning and enabling learning for specialist teachers of learners with cognitive learning difficulties _excluding specialist dyslexia provision_Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the principles and values that are central to person centred approaches
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of additional impairments learners may have and the impact of these impairments on the teaching and learning process
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to plan provision which meets the individual needs of learners with cognitive learning difficulties
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of teaching strategies, techniques, activities and resources (including ICT) when facilitating learning
- Demonstrate a knowled
Planning and practising embedded approaches to raise learner achievement _vocational and other subject teachers_Real unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and demonstrate how to collabourate with colleagues to integrate litreacy, language and numeracy development into a learning programme
- Understand and demonstrate how to assess vocational, litreacy, language and numeracy learning needs of individuals
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to plan, monitor and record learner progress within the team
- Demonstrate a knowledge of resources to support integration of litreacy, language and numeracy within the vocational programme
- Understand and demonstrate how to differentiate vocational teaching to ensure content is clear to l
Planning embedded approaches for developing subject focused knowledge and skillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to work in teams to support an embedded approach
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to plan for an embedded approach
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of how to plan for assessment of the learning in an area of specialism including litreacy, language and numeracy
- Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of resources for supporting an embedded approach in an area of specialism
Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning SectorReal unit · Ascentis
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.
Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning SectorReal unit · Ascentis
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
Reflective Practice in the Development of LearningReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of reflective practice in the development of learning
- Understand the ways in which reflective practice can be applied to the development of learning
- Apply the principles of reflective practice to the development of learning
- Implement the development of learning through reflective practice
Reflective professional practice skillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and demonstrate the integration of theory into own professional practice
- Understand and demonstrate continuous development to improve own practice
- Understand and demonstrate the application to own practice of theories and principles of reflective practice and models of professional development
- Understand and address own continuous personal and professional development needs
- Understand and demonstrate ways in which engagement in CPPD activities has improved own professional practice
Specialist Delivery Techniques and ActivitiesReal unit · Ascentis
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
Study skills for the development of learningReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories of study skills for the development of learning
- Understand ways study skills techniques can be used for the development of learning
- Implement study skills for the development of learning
- Implement improvements to study skills practice
Teaching a Specialist SubjectReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the aims and philosophy of education and training in own specialist area.
- Understand the aims and structure of a range of courses and qualifications available to learners in own specialist area.
- Understand principles of inclusive learning and teaching and key curriculum issues in own specialist area
- Understand how to use a range of specialist resources for inclusive learning and teaching.
- Understand and demonstrate how to work with other teachers and trainers within own specialist area
- Understand how to evaluate, improve and update own specialist knowledge and skills.
The Lifelong Learning SectorReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope and nature of the lifelong learning sector
- Understand the current UK policy context of the lifelong learning sector
- Understand the roles and purpose of regulators and funding bodies in the lifelong learning sector
- Understand the roles and purpose of agencies involved in quality improvement of the lifelong learning sector
The coaching and mentoring rolesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and responsibilities of the coach and the mentor
- Understand and demonstrate key techniques for an effective coaching and mentoring relationship
- Understand the stages of progression through an effective coaching and mentoring relationship
- Understand how to review the learner’s progress and achievements
- Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of own practice
Theories and Principles of Planning and Enabling LearningReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of theories and principles of learning and communication to inclusive practice.
- Understand how to apply theories and principles of learning and communication in planning and enabling inclusive learning.
- Understand and demonstrate knowledge of the minimum core in own practice.
- Understand and demonstrate how to evaluate and improve own practice, with reference to theories and principles of learning and communication.
Understanding embedded approaches for developing literacy, language and numeracy skillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the role of litreacy, language and numeracy skills for the individual, communities and the economy
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of successful embedded approaches and their impact on the achievement of learners
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of an organisation’s approach(es) to embedding litreacy, language and numeracy
Wider professional practiceReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of professionalism and core professional values for teachers in the lifelong learning sector
- Understand key issues in relation to professional conduct and accountability in the lifelong learning sector
- Understand and apply principles of evaluation, quality assurance and quality improvement
- Understand and demonstrate how to contribute to QA and QI systems and procedures.
- Understand how to evaluate and improve own wider professional practice.
Working with the 14-19 age range in the learning environmentReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current educational provision and ongoing developments for14-19 year olds
- Understand the learning and emotional needs of 14 to 19 year olds
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the teacher working with 14-19 year olds
- Understand and demonstrate use of techniques and strategies to manage the learning of 14-19 year olds
- Understand how to apply theories and principles of learning in planning, enabling and assessing learning for 14-19 year olds
- Understand how reflection, evaluation and feedback can be used to improve own practice in working with 14-19 year olds with referen
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Action ResearchAction learning to support development of subject specialist pedagogyContinuing personal and professional developmentCurriculum development for inclusive practiceDelivering Employability SkillsDeveloping Numeracy Knowledge and UnderstandingDeveloping and Managing Resources within the Lifelong Learning SectorDeveloping and Managing Resources within the Lifelong Learning Sector
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ASCENTIS Level 5 Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (QCF)
- Develop a culture and systems that promote equality and value diversity
- Manage Own Reflective Practice for Driver CPC Trainers
- Planning and Assessing for Learning Support
- Reflect on and develop practice
- Support the learner contribution to planning
Where this can lead
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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.
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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.
One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
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How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ASCENTIS Level 5 Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (QCF)
46 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Ascentis.
- Action Research
- Action learning to support development of subject specialist pedagogy
- Continuing personal and professional development
- Curriculum development for inclusive practice
- Delivering Employability Skills
- Developing Numeracy Knowledge and Understanding
and 40 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.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
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
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
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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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