Ascentis · RQF Level 5
Ascentis Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training
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 learning360 hours
- Units in this qualification43
Awarded by Ascentis · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
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 learning for teaching in a specialist area of disabilityReal unit · Ascentis
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
Action learning to support development of subject specific pedagogyReal unit · Ascentis
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 · Ascentis
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
Delivering employability skillsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the differences between employability skills and employment skills
- Understand the influence of personal qualities and skills on the delivery of employability skills
- Use techniques, strategies and practices that reflect the workplace in the delivery of employability skills
- Evaluate own delivery of employability skills
Develop and prepare resources for learning and developmentReal unit · Ascentis
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 · Ascentis
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 subject pedagogy and understanding - GCSE English LanguageReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Engage and inspire reluctant learners to re-engage in GCSE English Language learning
- Use assessment approaches to support GCSE English Language learning
- Plan teaching and learning to meet GCSE Englsih Language curriculum requirements and the needs of individual learners
- Develop learners' reading, writing and spoken language skills for GCSE English Language
- Use research to develop and improve own practice in GCSE English Language teaching
Developing subject pedagogy and understanding - GCSE MathematicsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Motivate and inspire reluctant learners to re-engage in mathematics learning
- Use assessment approaches to support GCSE mathematics learning
- Plan teaching and learning to meet GCSE mathematics curriculum requirements and the diverse needs of learners
- Use active learning strategies and connected, challenging teaching methods to make GCSE mathematics teaching and learning more effective
- Develop an in-depth understanding of mathematics at GCSE and at higher levels
- Use research to develop and improve own practice in GCSE mathematics teaching
Developing teaching, learning and assessment in education and trainingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate practice in own area of specialism
- Apply theories, principles and models of learning, communication and assessment to planning inclusive teaching and learning
- Apply theories of behaviour management to creating and maintaining a safe, inclusive teaching and learning environment
- Apply theories, principles and models of learning and communication to delivering inclusive teaching and learning
- Apply theories, models and principles of assessment to assessing learning in education and training
- Implement expectations of
Developing, using and organising resources in a specialist areaReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and use of resources in own specialist area
- Develop and use inclusive resources in own specialist area
- Understand how to organise and enable access to resources
- Understand legal requirements and responsibilities relating to the development and use of resources
- Evaluate own practice in relation to development and use of resources in own specialist area
ESOL and the learnersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the significance of language change and variety for ESOL learners
- Understand the relationship between language and social processes
- Understand factors that influence litreacy and language acquisition, learning and use
- Understand the use of assessment approaches to meet the needs of ESOL learners
- Understand how to promote learning and learner support within litreacy and language teaching and learning
- Understand how to liaise with others to promote the inclusion of litreacy and language skills in learning programmes
ESOL theories and frameworksReal unit · Ascentis
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
- Analyse spoken and written language
- Understand the processes involved in the development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
Effective partnership working in the learning and teaching contextReal unit · Ascentis
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
Engage with employers to facilitate workforce developmentReal unit · Ascentis
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 · 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 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 · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and methods of evaluating learning programmes
- Plan the evaluation of a learning programme
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a learning programme
Identify the learning needs of organisationsReal unit · Ascentis
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
Inclusive practiceReal unit · Ascentis
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 · Ascentis
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 ESOL and the learnersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the significance of language change and variety for litreacy and ESOL learners
- Understand the relationship between language and social processes
- Understand factors that influence litreacy and language acquisition, learning and use
- Understand the use of English as a medium for teaching and learning
- Understand the use of assessment approaches to meet the needs of litreacy and ESOL learners
- Understand how to promote learning and learner support within litreacy, ESOL and language teaching and learning
- Understand how to liaise with others to promote the inclusion of litreacy and la
Literacy and ESOL theories and frameworksReal unit · Ascentis
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
- Analyse spoken and written language
- Understand the processes involved in the development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills of litreacy and ESOL learners
Literacy and the learnersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the significance of language change and variety for litreacy learners
- Understand the relationship between language and social processes
- Understand factors that influence litreacy and language acquisition, learning and use
- Understand the use of assessment approaches to meet the needs of litreacy learners
- Understand how to promote learning and learner support within litreacy and language teaching and learning
- Understand how to liaise with others to promote the inclusion of litreacy and language skills in learning programmes
Literacy theories and frameworksReal unit · Ascentis
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
- Analyse spoken and written language
- Understand the processes involved in the development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills
Literacy, ESOL and the learnersReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the significance of language change and variety for litreacy and ESOL learners
- Understand the relationship between language and social processes
- Understand factors that influence litreacy, ESOL and language acquisition, learning and use
- Understand the use of assessment approaches to meet the needs of litreacy and ESOL learners
- Understand how to promote learning and learner support within litreacy and language teaching and learning
- Understand how to liaise with others to promote the inclusion of litreacy and language skills in learning programmes
Manage learning and development in groupsReal unit · Ascentis
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 · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the factors that influence the development and progression of numeracy learners
- Understand the use of assessment approaches to meet the needs of numeracy learners
- Understand the use of numeracy teaching approaches and resources to meet the needs of individual numeracy learners
- Understand how numeracy can impact on different contexts and subjects
- Promote learning support and learner support within numeracy teaching and learning
- Understand how to liaise with others to promote the inclusion of numeracy and wider skills in learning programmes
Numeracy knowledge and understandingReal unit · Ascentis
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
- Understand the links between the roles and perceptions of mathematics and numeracy within society
Preparing for the coaching roleReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to coaching
- Understand the use of coaching in a specific context
- Understand how to identify client goals and outcomes
Preparing for the mentoring roleReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to mentoring
- Understand the use of mentoring in a specific context
- Understand how to identify client goals and outcomes
Preparing for the personal tutoring roleReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own role and responsibilities in relation to the personal tutoring role
- Understand factors affecting learners’ approaches to learning
- Understand the use of personal tutoring in a specific context
- Understand how personal learning targets are created and monitored
Principles and practice of lipreading teachingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the physiological processes and psychological functions of hearing
- Understand the effects of acquired hearing loss
- Understand ways in which amplification and lipreading are optimised by those with hearing loss
- Understand the phonology of spoken English and its application to lipreading learning and teaching
- Use specialist techniques and methodology for teaching lipreading
- Understand assistive aids and services available to those with acquired hearing loss
Specialist delivery techniques and activitiesReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of specialist delivery techniques in a specific area
- Develop specialist delivery techniques and learning activities in own specific area
- Use specialist delivery techniques and learning activities
- Evaluate own practice in relation to specialist delivery techniques
Teaching Functional Skills EnglishReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to address barriers to learning functional English
- Use a range of assessment strategies to support functional English learners
- Plan inclusive teaching and learning for functional English learners
- Deliver inclusive teaching and learning for functional English learners
- Evaluate own practice in planning, delivering and assessing functional English
Teaching Functional Skills MathematicsReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise and address barriers to learning functional mathematics
- Use a range of assessment strategies to support functional mathematics learners
- Plan inclusive teaching and learning for functional mathematics
- Deliver inclusive teaching and learning for functional mathematics learners
- Evaluate own practice in planning, delivering and assessing functional mathematics
Teaching in a specialist areaReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the aims and philosophy of education and training in a specialist area
- Understand the aims and structure of key qualifications and learning programmes available to learners in a specialist area
- Understand principles of inclusive teaching and learning and key curriculum issues in a specialist area
- Understand how to use resources for inclusive teaching and learning 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
Teaching, learning and assessment in education and trainingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and training
- Use initial and diagnostic assessment to agree individual learning goals with learners
- Plan inclusive teaching and learning
- Create and maintain a safe, inclusive teaching and learning environment
- Deliver inclusive teaching and learning
- Assess learning in education and training
- Implement expectations of the minimum core in planning, delivering and assessing inclusive teaching and learning
- Evaluate own practice in planning, delivering
Theories, principles and models in education and trainingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the application of theories, principles and models of learning in education and training
- Understand the application of theories, principles and models of communication in education and training
- Understand the application of theories, principles and models of assessment in education and training
- Understand the application of theories and models of curriculum development within own area of specialism
- Understand the application of theories and models of reflection and evaluation to reviewing own practice
Understanding and managing behaviours in a learning environmentReal unit · Ascentis
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
- Apply theories of behaviour management to create and maintain a purposeful learning environment
- Evaluate own practice in managing behaviours in a learning environment
Understanding and managing behaviours in a learning environmentReal unit · Ascentis
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 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 the principles and practices of externally assuring the quality of assessmentReal unit · Ascentis
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 · Ascentis
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 · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key theories and research which inform the teaching and learning 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
- Understand how to work with others to support the needs of disabled learners
Wider professional practice and development in education and trainingReal unit · Ascentis
What you'll be able to do
- Understand professionalism and the influence of professional values in education and training
- Understand the policy context of education and training
- Understand the impact of accountability to stakeholders and external bodies on education and training
- Understand the organisational context of education and training
- Contribute to the quality improvement and quality assurance arrangements of an organisation
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.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
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- Prepare for coaching or mentoring sessions
Where this can lead
Learning Programme Specialist
Your career path here isn't a rigid ladder; it's more like a climbing frame. There are many ways to grow, specialise, and lead. We're here to help you figure out what that looks like for you, and give you the opportunities to get there. The most important thing is your drive to learn and make a difference.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Ascentis Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training
42 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Ascentis.
- Action learning for teaching in a specialist area of disability
- Action learning to support development of subject specific pedagogy
- Action research
- Delivering employability skills
- Develop and prepare resources for learning and development
- Develop learning and development programmes
and 36 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
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.