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- The centre assesses, and GQA Qualifications Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from GQA Qualifications Limited.
This qualification develops knowledge and skills for those providing direct learning support. It covers principles and practices of assessment, resource development, and reflective practice. Furthermore, it is suitable for individuals seeking to evaluate and improve learning and development provision within an employing organisation.
These are the units GQA Qualifications Limited 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 GQA Qualifications Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. GQA Qualifications Limited 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 · GQA Qualifications Limited
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 · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
- Carry out assessments of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
- Provide required information following the assessment of vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
- Maintain legal and good practice requirements when assessing vocational skills, knowledge and understanding.
Develop and prepare resources for learning and development Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles that underpin the development and preparation of resources for learning and development.
- Develop resources to meet identified learning and development needs, taking into account different learning styles and preferences.
Engage learners in the learning and development process Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and purpose of engaging learners in learning and development activities
- Understand the role of mentoring in facilitating learning and development
- Assist and engage the learner effectively in the learning and development process
- Assist the learner in reviewing their own progress and identifying areas for improvement
Engage with employers to develop and support learning provision Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
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 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 · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different contexts for evaluation and quality improvement of learning and development provision.
- Understand the methods and processes involved in the evaluation of learning and development activities and programmes.
- Evaluate learning and development provision in accordance with organisational requirements and quality standards.
- Improve learning and development provision, ensuring that regulatory and organisational requirements are consistently met.
Facilitate learning and development for individuals Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of one-to-one learning and development
- Facilitate one-to-one learning and development effectively
- 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 · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the 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 · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and practices of learning needs analysis for individuals
- Conduct a thorough learning needs analysis for individuals
- Agree individual learning and development needs with relevant parties
Plan and prepare specific learning and development opportunities Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan learning and development opportunities that are appropriate for the learner
- Prepare specific learning and development opportunities to meet identified learner needs
Provide information and advice to learners and employers Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand information and advice available for learners and employers regarding learning and development
- Understand own boundaries and limitations in relation to providing information and advice to learners and employers
- Provide appropriate information and advice to learners and employers
- Assist learners and employers to access relevant information and advice
Reflect on and improve own practice in learning and development Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different approaches to reflective practice and the processes associated with continuing professional development.
- Reflect on own performance as a learning and development practitioner, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
- Improve own learning and development practice through planned professional development activities and reflective practice.
Understand the principles and practices of learning and development Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and context of learning and development within organisations.
- Understand the stages of the learning and development cycle, from needs analysis to evaluation.
- Understand the diverse needs of learners in relation to learning and development, including different learning styles and accessibility requirements.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of the learning and development practitioner in supporting learners and delivering effective training.
- Understand the relevant legislative and organisational requirements in relation to learning and development, including data protection, equality and diversity, and health and safety.
Understanding the Employing Organisation Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of their employing organisation, including its different departments and functions.
- Understand the key aims and objectives of their organisation and how these are achieved.
- Understand their own contribution to their organisation’s key aims and objectives and how their role supports the organisation's success.
- Understand the opportunities for entry, professional development and progression within their organisation, including available training and career pathways.
Understanding the principles and practices of assessment Real unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and requirements of assessment.
- Understand different types of assessment method.
- Understand how to plan assessment.
- Understand how to involve learners and others in assessment.
- Understand how to make assessment decisions.
- Understand quality assurance of the assessment process.
- Understand how to manage information relating to assessment.
- Understand the legal and good practice requirements in relation to assessment.
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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Develop as a reflective supported employment practitioner
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Develop yourself as a reflective supported employment practitioner
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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 family learning provision
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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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Manage personal development and reflect on current practice
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Plan Learning
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Plan and prepare learning and development programmes
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Plan and prepare specific learning and development opportunities
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Reflect on and develop practice
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Reflect on and update own knowledge and practice
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Reflect on and update own knowledge and practice
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Reflect on, develop and maintain own skills and practice in learning and development
Showing 18 of 19 standards these units map to.
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Learning Management Specialist
This work can lead to roles managing learning systems and teams, or shaping learning technology strategy across a business.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
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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.
- Develop as a reflective supported employment practitioner
- Develop yourself as a reflective supported employment practitioner
- 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 family learning provision
- Evaluate and improve learning and development provision
- Identify Individual Learning and Development
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 work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop skills to plan and conduct assessments of occupational competence in work environments. The unit covers assessment planning, evidence evaluation, decision-making, reporting, and adherence to legal and good practice requirements.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for GQA PAA\VQ-SET Level 3 Certificate in Learning and Development
15 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited.
- 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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