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- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer SFJ Awards has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and SFJ Awards awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from SFJ Awards.
The Level 3 Certificate in Learning and Development is an occupational qualification. It allows learners to develop skills in facilitating learning, assessing vocational skills, and providing information and advice to learners and employers.
These are the units SFJ 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with SFJ Awards. It does the teaching and the mapping. SFJ Awards sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Assess occupational competence in the work environment Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the assessment of occupational competence
- Make assessment decisions about occupational competence
- Provide required information following the assessment of occupational competence
- Maintain legal and good practice requirements when assessing occupational competence
Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding, ensuring they are valid, reliable, and fair.
- Carry out assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding, using appropriate methods and techniques.
- Provide required information following the assessment of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding, in a clear, concise, and timely manner.
- Maintain legal and good practice requirements when assessing vocational skills, knowledge and understanding, adhering to relevant regulations and ethical guidelines.
Develop and prepare resources for learning and development Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development and preparation of resources for learning and development.
- Develop resources to meet identified learning and development needs.
Engage learners in the learning and development process Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of engaging learners in learning and development
- Understand the purpose of engaging learners in learning and development
- Understand the role of mentoring in facilitating learning
- Assist and engage the learner effectively in the learning and development process
- Assist the learner in reviewing their own progress throughout the learning and development process
Engage with employers to develop and support learning provision Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand information relating to how employers develop provision for learners
- Understand how to engage with employers for the benefit of learners
- Engage with employers effectively for the benefit of learners
- Evaluate the effect of employer provision on the learner and partner organisation
Evaluate and improve learning and development provision Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different contexts for evaluation and quality improvement of learning and development provision.
- Understand the methods used in the evaluation of learning and development.
- Evaluate learning and development provision in accordance with organisational requirements.
- Improve learning and development provision ensuring regulatory and organisational requirements are met.
Facilitate learning and development for individuals Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles and practices of one to one learning and development
- Facilitate one to one learning and development
- Assist individual learners in applying new knowledge and skills in practical contexts
- Assist individual learners in reflecting on their learning and/or development
Facilitate learning and development in groups Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles and practices of learning and development in groups
- Facilitate learning and development in groups
- Assist groups to apply new knowledge and skills in practical contexts
- Assist learners to reflect on their learning and development undertaken in groups
Identify individual learning and development needs Real unit · SFJ 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 with relevant parties.
Plan and prepare specific learning and development opportunities Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Plan learning and development opportunities that are appropriate for the context
- Prepare specific learning and development opportunities to meet identified learner needs
Provide information and advice to learners and employers Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of information and advice available for learners, including educational pathways, career options, and financial support.
- Understand the range of information and advice available for employers, including training opportunities, funding options, and legal requirements.
- Understand own boundaries and limitations in relation to providing information and advice, including when to refer to specialist support.
- Provide accurate and relevant information to learners and employers, using appropriate communication methods.
- Provide clear and impartial advice to learners and employers, taking into account their individual needs and circumstances.
- Assist learners and employers to access information and advice from relevant sources, including online resources and support services.
Reflect on and improve own practice in learning and development Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand approaches to and processes associated with reflective practice and continuing professional development
- Reflect on own performance as a learning and development practitioner
- Improve own learning and development practice
Understand the principles and practices of learning and development Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and context of learning and development
- Understand the learning and development cycle
- Understand the needs of learners in relation to learning and development
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the learning and development practitioner
- Understand legislative and organisational requirements in relation to learning and development
Understanding the Employing Organisation Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of their organisation.
- Understand the key aims and objectives of their organisation.
- Understand their own contribution to their organisation’s key aims and objectives.
- Understand the opportunities for entry, professional development and progression within their organisation.
Understanding the principles and practices of assessment Real unit · SFJ Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and requirements of assessment, including validity, reliability, fairness, and authenticity
- Understand different types of assessment method, including their strengths and weaknesses, and how to select appropriate methods for different purposes
- Understand how to plan assessment, including setting clear objectives, developing assessment criteria, and creating assessment instruments
- Understand how to involve learners and others in assessment, including providing feedback, promoting self-assessment, and involving stakeholders
- Understand how to make assessment decisions, including interpreting evidence, applying assessment criteria, and making judgements about competence
- Understand quality assurance of the assessment process, including internal and external verification, standardisation, and continuous improvement
- Understand how to manage information relating to assessment, including recording results, maintaining confidentiality, and complying with data protection regulations
- Understand the legal and good practice requirements in relation to assessment, including equality and diversity, health and safety, and safeguarding
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Advise on learning and progression
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Engage and involve the learner in learning
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Engage and support learners in the learning and development process
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Engage in the strategic development of adult learning
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Evaluate and improve learning and development provision
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Identify Individual Learning and Development
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Identify collective learning and development needs
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Identify the learning and development needs of the groups you work with
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Plan and Prepare Family Learning Programmes
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Plan and prepare learning and development programmes
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Plan and prepare specific learning and development opportunities
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by SFJ Awards rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Assess occupational competence in the work environmentAssess vocational skills, knowledge and understandingDevelop and prepare resources for learning and developmentEngage learners in the learning and development processEngage with employers to develop and support learning provisionEvaluate and improve learning and development provisionFacilitate learning and development for individualsFacilitate learning and development in groups
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Plan and prepare specific learning and development opportunities” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Evaluate and improve learning and development provision” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Advise on learning and progression
- Engage and involve the learner in learning
- Engage and support learners in the learning and development process
- Engage in the strategic development of adult learning
- Evaluate and improve learning and development provision
- Identify Individual Learning and Development
- Identify collective learning and development needs
- Identify the learning and development needs of the groups you work with
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Assess occupational competence in the work environment, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit assesses a learning and development practitioner’s performance in carrying out assessments of occupational competence in a work environment. This unit requires evidence of using specific assessment methods.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for SFJ Awards Level 3 Certificate In Learning and Development
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by SFJ Awards.
- Assess occupational competence in the work environment
- Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding
- Develop and prepare resources for learning and development
- Engage learners in the learning and development process
- Engage with employers to develop and support learning provision
- Evaluate and improve learning and development provision
and 9 more in the full unit list below.
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