Agored Cymru · RQF Level 4

Agored Cymru Level 4 Award in Learning Coaching (QCF)

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 4
  • Total credits11
  • Guided learning196.5 hours
  • Units in this qualification6

Awarded by Agored Cymru · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

These are the units Agored Cymru 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.

An Introduction to the Welsh Education Context for Learning CoachingReal unit · Agored Cymru

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the context of the education system in WalesAS6 - A6.1FK.1.1FK2.1FP2.1
  • Understand the legislative parametres that impact on the work of a Learning CoachAK6.1AP6.1
  • Understand a range of typical pupil data to support learner tracking and progressAK7.1AP7.1
Coaching for Learning _Learners aged 14-19_Real unit · Agored Cymru

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the functions of Learning CoachingCM1.1
  • Understand how to assess young people’s achievements and barriers to learningCM2.6
  • Engage young people (in 1 to 1 and group settings) in a realistic assessment of their learning development, achievement and potentialCM2.2
  • Co-ordinate components of an individualised Learning Pathway to maximise learning opportunities for young peopleCM2.2, CM2.5, CM2.6, CM2.9, CM2.10, CM2.11, CM3.6
  • Engage young people in defining and achieving realistic learning development goalsCM2.5, CM2.2
  • Review the outcomes o
Learning Coaching: Supporting Young People to Manage the Change Process in Group SettingsReal unit · Agored Cymru

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand and implement the mentoring processCM2.1, CM2.9
  • Organise and initiate mentoring support in group settingsCM2.2, CM2.5, CM2.6, CM2.7, CM2.8, CM3.1
  • Demonstrate effective mentoring skills in group settingsCM2.2, CM2.9, CM2.5, CM2.7, CM2.10, CM2.11
  • Review the outcomes of the mentoring processKAD10.6, KAD10.9SA17
Learning Coaching: Supporting Young People to Manage the Change Process in One-to-One SettingsReal unit · Agored Cymru

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand and implement the mentoring processCM2.1, CM2.9
  • Organise and initiate mentoring support in 1 to 1 settingsCM2.2, CM2.5, CM2.6, CM2.7, CM2.8, CM3.1
  • Demonstrate effective mentoring skills in 1 to 1 settingsCM2.2, CM2.5, CM2.7, CM2.9, CM2.10, CM2.11
  • Review the outcomes of the mentoring processKAD10.5, KAD10.9SA17
Learning Coaching: The Learning ProcessReal unit · Agored Cymru

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how young people learnKABD3.3SA9
  • Understand how personal, social and emotional factors affect the learning, progress and development of young peopleKAA2.1, KAA2.3SA1, SA2
  • Understand the application of theoretical concepts of learning stylesKAA2.5, KAA2.6, KAC7.3SA1, SA6, SB1, SB2
  • Review the outcomes of the learning coaching planKAD10.6, KAD10.9SA17
Reflective Practice within the Learning Coach FunctionReal unit · Agored Cymru

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand reflective practiceAP4.3CP3.1
  • Engage in reflective practiceAP4.2AP2.2CP3.1

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 4 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.

An Introduction to the Welsh Education Context for Learning CoachingCoaching for Learning _Learners aged 14-19_Learning Coaching: Supporting Young People to Manage the Change Process in Group SettingsLearning Coaching: Supporting Young People to Manage the Change Process in One-to-One SettingsLearning Coaching: The Learning ProcessReflective Practice within the Learning Coach Function

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

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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.
An Introduction to the Welsh Education Context for Learning CoachingLevel 4

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

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How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for Agored Cymru Level 4 Award in Learning Coaching (QCF)

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Agored Cymru.

  1. An Introduction to the Welsh Education Context for Learning Coaching
  2. Coaching for Learning _Learners aged 14-19_
  3. Learning Coaching: Supporting Young People to Manage the Change Process in Group Settings
  4. Learning Coaching: Supporting Young People to Manage the Change Process in One-to-One Settings
  5. Learning Coaching: The Learning Process
  6. Reflective Practice within the Learning Coach Function
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 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.

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