Laser Learning Awards · RQF Level 5
Laser 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 qualification76
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Laser Learning Awards 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 learning for teaching in a specialist area of disabilityReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of a specific impairment on teaching and learning
- Understand how to investigate effective practice in a specialist area of disability
- Investigate practice in a specialist area of disability
- Apply learning from an investigation of practice to own professional practice
Action learning to support development of subject specific pedagogyReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify an area of interest related to practice in own subject specific area
- Investigate current good practice in own subject specific area
- Work with others to improve own skills in reflective practice
- Evaluate own practice in a subject specific area
- Apply learning from investigation of an area of interest to own practice in a subject specific area
- Present findings from investigation of an area of interest in own subject specific area
Action researchReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and nature of action research
- Initiate action research
- Understand ways of carrying out action research
- Carry out action research
- Present the outcomes of action research
- Evaluate own practice in relation to action research
Applying theories and principles for planning and enabling inclusive learning and teachingReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of theories and principles of learning and communication to inclusive learning and teaching
- Apply theories and principles of learning and communication to inclusive learning and teaching
- Understand expectations of the minimum core in relation to the application of theories and principles for planning and enabling inclusive learning and teaching
- Evaluate and improve own application of theories and principles of learning and communication to inclusive learning and teaching
Applying theories and principles for planning and enabling learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of theories and principles of learning and communication to inclusive learning and teaching
- Apply theories and principles of learning and communication to inclusive learning and teaching
- Meet the expectations of the minimum core in relation to the applications of theories and principles for planning and enabling inclusive learning and teaching
- Evaluate and improve own application of theories and principles of learning and communication to inclusive learning and teaching
Assessing learners in lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Use types and methods of assessment to meet the needs of learners
- Conduct and record assessments in accordance with internal and external processes and requirements
- Understand expectations in relation to the minimum core in assessing learners in lifelong learning
- Evaluate own assessment practice
Assessing learners in lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Use types and methods of assessment to meet the needs of learners
- Conduct and record assessments in accordance with internal and external processes and requirements
- Understand expectations in relation to the minimum core in assessing learners in lifelong learning
- Evaluate own assessment practice
Assessment and support for the recognition of prior learning through the accreditation of learning outcomesReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and demonstrate how to work with models of recognition and accreditation of prior learning
- Provide guidance to learners on recognition and accreditation of prior learning (APL) when selecting their target qualifications
- Understand and demonstrate how to ensure appropriate guidance and reliable and valid assessment for learners following the APL route
- Understand and demonstrate how to provide effective formative guidance for learners
- Understand and demonstrate how to work with the assessment team to lead guidance and assessment for learners
- Assess and feedback on evidence presen
Continuing personal and professional developmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of theories, principles and models of reflective practice to continuing personal and professional development
- Understand own continuing personal and professional development needs
- Engage in continuing personal and professional development to improve own practice
Curriculum development for inclusive practiceReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand contexts in which education and training are provided in the lifelong learning sector
- Understand the impact of theories, principles and models of curriculum design on inclusive learning and teaching
- Apply theories, principles and models of curriculum design to curriculum development and practice
- Evaluate and improve own practice in inclusive curriculum design and development
Delivering lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Use inclusive learning and teaching approaches in accordance with internal processes and external requirements
- Communicate with learners and other learning professionals to enhance learning
- Understand how technology can enhance learning and teaching
- Understand the use of minimum core in relation to delivering lifelong learning
- Evaluate own practice in delivering inclusive learning and teaching
Delivering lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Use inclusive learning and teaching approaches in accordance with internal processes and external requirements
- Communicate with learners and other learning professionals to encourage learning
- Understand how technology can enhance learning and teaching
- Understand expectations of the minimum core in relation to delivering lifelong learning
- Evaluate own practice in delivering inclusive learning and teaching
Develop and prepare resources for learning and developmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles underpinning development and preparation of resources for learning and development
- Develop resources to meet learning and development needs
Develop learning and development programmesReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of learning and development programmes
- Develop learning and development programmes
- Review learning and development programmes
Developing, using and organising resources within the lifelong learning sectorReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and use of resources
- Develop and use inclusive resources
- Understand how to organise and enable access to resources
- Understand legal requirements and responsibilities relating to the development and use of resources
- Understand how to evaluate own practice in relation to development and use of resources
Developing, using and organising resources within the lifelong learning sectorReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and use of resources
- Develop and use inclusive resources
- Understand how to organise and enable access to resources
- Understand legal requirements and responsibilities relating to the development and use of resources
- Understand how to evaluate own practice in relation to development and use of resources
ESOL and the learnersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the significance of language change for ESOL learners
- Understand the significance of language variety for ESOL learners
- Understand the relationship between language and social processes
- Understand factors which influence litreacy and language acquisition, learning and use
ESOL theories and frameworksReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories and principles relating to language acquisition and learning
- Understand theories and principles relating to litreacy learning and development
- Understand how language can be described and analysed
- Understand the processes involved in the development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
Effective partnership working in the learning and teaching contextReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and nature of partnership working
- Understand the purpose, aims and objectives of a partnership
- Understand the structure and management of a partnership
- Understand how to measure and report on a partnership’s outputs
- Understand how to communicate effectively within a partnership
- Understand the wider context within which a partnership operates
Effective partnership working in the learning and teaching contextReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and nature of partnership working
- Understand the purpose, aims and objectives of a partnership
- Understand the structure and management of a partnership
- Understand how to measure and report on a partnership’s outputs
- Understand how to communicate effectively within a partnership
- Understand the wider context within which a partnership operates
Enabling learning through assessmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories, principles and applications of formal and informal assessment
- Design formal and informal assessments to enable learning and progression
- Conduct formal and informal assessments to enable learning and progression
- Understand minimum core expectations in relation to enabling learning and assessment
- Evaluate and improve own assessment practice
Enabling learning through assessmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories, principles and applications of formal and informal assessment
- Design formal and informal assessments to enable learning and progression
- Conduct formal and informal assessments to enable learning and progression
- Meet minimum core expectations in relation to enabling learning and assessment
- Evaluate and improve own assessment practice
Engage learners in the learning and development processReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles and purpose of engaging learners in learning and development
- Understand the role of mentoring in facilitating learning
- Assist and engage the learner in the learning and development process
- Assist the learner in reviewing their own progress
Engage with employers to develop and support learning provisionReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand information relating to employers developing provision for learners
- Understand how to engage with employers for the benefit of learners
- Engage with employers for the benefit of learners
- Evaluate the effect of employer provision on the learner and partner organisation
Engage with employers to facilitate workforce developmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the opportunities available for workforce development
- Understand how to engage with employers to promote workforce development
- Understand how to design learning and development opportunities in the workplace
- Understand how to facilitate learning and development opportunities in the workplace
- Engage with employers on workforce development issues
- Work with employers to facilitate workforce development solutions
Equality and diversityReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of a culture which promotes equality and values diversity
- Understand the importance of promoting equality and valuing diversity in lifelong learning
- Promote equality and value diversity
- Understand how to help others in the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity
- Review own contribution to promoting equality and valuing diversity in lifelong learning
Equality and diversityReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of a culture which promotes equality and values diversity
- Understand the importance of promoting equality and valuing diversity in lifelong learning
- Promote equality and value diversity
- Understand how to help others in the promotion of equality and valuing of diversity
- Review own contribution to promoting equality and valuing diversity in lifelong learning
Evaluating learning programmesReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of evaluating learning programmes
- Understand and use 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
Identify individual learning and development needsReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of learning needs analysis for individuals
- Conduct learning needs analysis for individuals
- Agree individual learning and development needs
Identify the learning needs of organisationsReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of learning needs analysis for organisations
- Conduct learning needs analysis for the organisation
- Agree organisational learning and development plans with relevant people
Improving numeracy knowledge, understanding and practiceReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundamental attributes of mathematics and numeracy
- Understand the attributes of procedures within mathematics and numeracy
- Understand how learning theories and the origins and status of mathematics impact on numeracy teaching
- Use evaluation of practice to improve numeracy learning and teaching
Inclusive learning and teaching for disabled learnersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand specialist areas of disability and their impact on learning
- Understand how to work with others to support the needs of disabled learners
- Plan inclusive learning and teaching for disabled learners
- Use inclusive learning and teaching approaches
- Evaluate and improve own practice
Inclusive practiceReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors which influence learning
- Understand the impact of policy and regulatory frameworks on inclusive practice
- Understand roles and responsibilities relating to inclusive practice
- Understand how to create and maintain an inclusive learning environment
- Understand how to evaluate own inclusive practice
Inclusive practiceReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors which influence learning
- Understand the impact of policy and regulatory frameworks on inclusive practice
- Understand roles and responsibilities relating to inclusive practice
- Understand how to create and maintain an inclusive learning environment
- Understand how to evaluate own inclusive practice
Internally assure the quality of assessmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the internal quality assurance of assessment
- Internally evaluate the quality of assessment
- Internally maintain and improve the quality of assessment
- Manage information relevant to the internal quality assurance of assessment
- Maintain legal and good practice requirements when internally monitoring and maintaining the quality of assessment
Literacy and the learnersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the significance of language change for litreacy learners
- Understand the significance of language variety for litreacy learners
- Understand the relationship between language and social processes
- Understand factors which influence litreacy and language acquisition, learning and use
Literacy theories and frameworksReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories and principles relating to language acquisition and learning
- Understand theories and principles relating to litreacy learning and development
- Understand how language can be described and analysed
- Understand the processes involved in the development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
Literacy, ESOL and the learnersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the significance of language change for litreacy and ESOL learners
- Understand the significance of language variety for litreacy and ESOL learners
- Understand the relationship between language and social processes
- Understand factors which influence litreacy and language acquisition, learning and use
Manage learning and development in groupsReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of managing learning and development in groups
- Manage group learning and development environments
- Apply methodologies to manage learning and development in groups
- Manage learning and development in groups to comply with legal and organisational requirements
Numeracy and the learnersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the links between popular perceptions of mathematics and their roles within numeracy learning
- Understand how numeracy can impact on different contexts and subjects
- Use assessment processes to identify the skills and aspirations of numeracy learners
- Use inclusive approaches to meet the individual needs of numeracy learners
- Promote learning support and learner support within numeracy learning and teaching
- Understand how to liaise with others to promote the inclusion of numeracy and wider skills in learning programmes
Planning to meet the needs of learnersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Agree individual learning goals with learners
- Plan inclusive learning and teaching in accordance with internal processes and external requirements
- Understand expectations of the minimum core in relation to planning inclusive learning and teaching
- Evaluate own practice in planning inclusive learning and teaching
Planning to meet the needs of learnersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Agree individual learning goals with learners
- Plan inclusive learning and teaching in accordance with internal processes and external requirements
- Understand expectations of the minimum core in relation to planning inclusive learning and teaching
- Evaluate own practice in planning inclusive learning and teaching
Preparing for the Coaching RoleReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to coaching
- Understand ways to identify individual coaching needs
- Understand techniques to establish and maintain a coaching relationship
- Understand how to review progress through coaching
Preparing for the Coaching RoleReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to coaching
- Understand how to identify individual coaching needs
- Understand techniques that establish and maintain an effective coaching relationship
- Understand how to review progress through coaching
Preparing for the Mentoring RoleReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to mentoring
- Understand how to identify individual mentoring needs
- Understand techniques that establish and maintain an effective mentoring relationship
- Understand how to review progress through mentoring
Preparing for the mentoring roleReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to mentoring
- Understand ways to identify individual mentoring needs
- Understand techniques to establish and maintain a mentoring relationship
- Understand how to review progress through mentoring
Principles of assessment in lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how types and methods of assessment are used in lifelong learning
- Understand how to involve learners in the assessment process
- Understand requirements for keeping records of assessment in lifelong learning
Principles of assessment in lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand types and methods of assessment used in lifelong learning
- Understand ways to involve learners in the assessment process
- Understand requirements for keeping records of assessment in lifelong learning
Provide information and advice to learners and employersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand information and advice available for learners and employers
- Understand own boundaries and limitations in relation to providing information and advice
- Provide information and advice to learners and employers
- Assist learners and employers to access information and advice
Quality procedures within the lifelong learning sectorReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of evaluation and quality assurance
- Understand the principles of quality improvement
- Understand the quality improvement procedures relevant to own practice
- Understand how to ensure that own practice meets internal and external quality requirements
Quality procedures within the lifelong learning sectorReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of evaluation and quality assurance
- Understand the principles of quality improvement
- Understand the quality improvement procedures relevant to own practice
- Understand how to ensure that own practice meets internal and external quality requirements
Roles, responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in lifelong learning
- Understand the relationships between teachers and other professionals in lifelong learning
- Understand own responsibility for maintaining a safe and supportive learning environment
Roles, responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in lifelong learning
- Understand the relationships between teachers and other professionals in lifelong learning
- Understand own responsibility for maintaining a safe and supportive learning environment
Teaching in a specialist areaReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
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 key qualifications and learning programmes qualifications available to learners in a specialist area
- Understand principles of inclusive learning and teaching and key curriculum issues in a specialist area
- Understand how to use resources for inclusive learning and teaching in a specialist area
- Work with others within a specialist area to develop own practice
- Evaluate, improve and update own knowledge and skills in a specialist area
The coaching and mentoring rolesReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and responsibilities of the coach and the mentor
- Understand techniques for a coaching and mentoring relationship
- Understand the stages of progression through a coaching and mentoring relationship
- Create an environment in which coaching and mentoring can take place
- Understand how to review the learner’s progress and achievements
The coaching and mentoring rolesReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and responsibilities of the coach and the mentor
- Understand techniques for a coaching and mentoring relationship
- Understand the stages of progression through a coaching and mentoring relationship
- Create an environment in which coaching and mentoring can take place
- Understand how to review the learner’s progress and achievements
The lifelong learning sectorReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope and nature of the lifelong learning sector
- Understand the impact of the policy context within which the lifelong learning sector operates
- Understand the roles, purposes and impact of regulators and funding bodies for the lifelong learning sector
- Understand the roles, purposes and impact of agencies involved in the quality and quality improvement of practice in the lifelong learning sector
The lifelong learning sectorReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope and nature of the lifelong learning sector
- Understand the impact of the policy context within which the lifelong learning sector operates
- Understand the roles, purposes and impact of regulators and funding bodies for the lifelong learning sector
- Understand the roles, purposes and impact of agencies involved in the quality and quality improvement of practice in the lifelong learning sector
Tutoring and course leadership in the lifelong learning sectorReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purposes, role and responsibilities of tutoring in the lifelong learning sector
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a course leader in the lifelong learning sector
- Establish effective tutoring relationships with learners
- Personalise learning for learners
- Evaluate and improve learning programmes
- Understand how to evaluate, improve and update own tutoring practice
- Understand how to evaluate, improve and update own course leadership practice
Understanding and managing behaviours in a learning environmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand potential factors leading to behaviours that disrupt a learning environment
- Understand organisational policies relating to managing behaviours in the learning environment
- Promote behaviours that contribute to a purposeful learning environment
- Manage behaviours that disrupt a purposeful learning environment
Understanding and managing behaviours in a learning environmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics and impact of behaviours in a learning environment
- Understand legislation and organisational policies relating to managing behaviours in a learning environment
- Promote behaviours that contribute to a purposeful learning environment
- Manage behaviours that disrupt a purposeful learning environment
- Evaluate own practice in managing behaviours in a learning environment
Understanding inclusive learning and teaching in lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand learning and teaching strategies in lifelong learning
- Understand how to create inclusive learning and teaching in lifelong learning
- Understand how to create a motivating learning environment
Understanding inclusive learning and teaching in lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand learning and teaching strategies in lifelong learning
- Understand how to create inclusive learning and teaching in lifelong learning
- Understand ways to create a motivating learning environment
Understanding the principles and practices of externally assuring the quality of assessmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context and principles of external quality assurance
- Understand how to plan the external quality assurance of assessment
- Understand how to externally evaluate the quality of assessment and internal quality assurance
- Understand how to externally maintain and improve the quality of assessment
- Understand how to manage information relevant to external quality assurance
- Understand the legal and good practice requirements relating to external quality assurance
Understanding the principles and practices of internally assuring the quality of assessmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the context and principles of internal quality assurance
- Understand how to plan the internal quality assurance of assessment
- Understand techniques and criteria for monitoring the quality of assessment internally
- Understand how to internally maintain and improve the quality of assessment
- Understand how to manage information relevant to the internal quality assurance of assessment
- Understand the legal and good practice requirements for the internal quality assurance of assessment
Understanding theories and frameworks for teaching disabled learnersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key theories and research which inform the learning and teaching of disabled young people and adults
- Understand factors influencing inclusive practice for disabled learners
- Understand the impact of policy and regulatory frameworks on provision for disabled young people and adults
- Understand factors that influence the curriculum for disabled young people and adults
Using inclusive learning and teaching approaches in lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Plan inclusive learning and teaching sessions
- Deliver inclusive learning and teaching sessions
- Evaluate own practice in delivering inclusive learning and teaching
Using inclusive learning and teaching approaches in lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Plan inclusive learning and teaching sessions
- Deliver inclusive learning and teaching sessions
- Evaluate own practice in delivering inclusive learning and teaching
Using resources for lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Use resources in the delivery of inclusive learning and teaching
- Understand expectations of the minimum core in relation to using resources for lifelong learning
- Evaluate own use of resources in the delivery of inclusive learning and teaching
Using resources for lifelong learningReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Use resources in the delivery of inclusive learning and teaching
- Understand expectations of the minimum core in relation to using resources for lifelong learning
- Evaluate own use of resources in the delivery of inclusive learning and teaching
Using study skills approaches and techniques to enhance the learning of othersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to use study skills approaches and techniques to enhance the learning of others
- Enable learners to use study skills to enhance their learning
- Evaluate own practice in the use of study skills approaches and techniques to enhance the learning of others
Wider professional practiceReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of professionalism and core professional values in the lifelong learning sector
- Understand policies and regulatory requirements relating to the lifelong learning sector
- Contribute to quality improvement and quality assurance systems and procedures
- Understand how to develop learners’ wider skills in own specialist area
- Evaluate and improve own wider professional practice
Working with individual learnersReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of a coach, mentor and teacher in relation to working with individual learners
- Understand how to select strategies to meet the needs of individual learners
- Understand the multi-agency approach to the development of individual learners
- Understand the contribution of one-to-one coaching, mentoring and teaching to the development of individual learners
- Evaluate own practice in relation to one-to-one teaching and learning situations
Working with individuals and small groups in a learning environmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Use communication models in relation to working with individuals and small groups in a learning environment
- Use behaviour models in relation to working with small groups in a learning environment
- Understand how to promote learner participation and independence
- Understand the use of teaching and learning strategies to meet the needs of individuals and small groups
- Plan, enable and assess learning with individuals and small groups
- Understand how to evaluate own practice in working with individuals and small groups in a learning environment
Working with the 14-16 age range in the learning environmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current educational provision and ongoing developments for14-16 year olds
- Understand the learning and emotional needs of 14 to 16 year olds
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the teacher working with 14-16 year olds
- Demonstrate the use of techniques and strategies to manage the learning of 14-16 year olds
- Plan, enable and assess learning for 14-16 year olds
- Reflect and evaluate feedback to improve own practice in working with 14-16 year olds
Working with the 14-19 age range in the learning environmentReal unit · Laser Learning Awards
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
- Demonstrate the 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
- Reflect and evaluate feedback to improve own practice in working with 14-19 year olds with reference to theories and pri
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Action learning for teaching in a specialist area of disabilityAction learning to support development of subject specific pedagogyAction researchApplying theories and principles for planning and enabling inclusive learning and teachingApplying theories and principles for planning and enabling learningAssessing learners in lifelong learningAssessing learners in lifelong learningAssessment and support for the recognition of prior learning through the accreditation of learning outcomes
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
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Laser Level 5 Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (QCF)
- Develop, promote and support enrichment opportunities
- Encourage Involvement of the Learner
- Evaluate the quality of strategies to involve the learner
- Identify Individual Learning and Development
Where this can lead
Learning Evaluation Associate
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to build a truly impactful career in learning evaluation, whether that's as a deep technical expert or a future leader.
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Develop, promote and support enrichment opportunitiesEncourage Involvement of the LearnerEvaluate the quality of strategies to involve the learnerIdentify Individual Learning and Development
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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- Create
Built for Laser Level 5 Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (QCF)
57 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Laser Learning Awards.
- Action learning for teaching in a specialist area of disability
- Action learning to support development of subject specific pedagogy
- Action research
- Applying theories and principles for planning and enabling inclusive learning and teaching
- Applying theories and principles for planning and enabling learning
- Assessing learners in lifelong learning
and 51 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
Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is
take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying
for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with
you, on your real work, is for.
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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.