Active IQ · RQF Level 4
Active IQ Level 4 Certificate 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 4
- Total credits36
- Guided learning140 hours
- Units in this qualification43
Awarded by Active IQ · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Active IQ 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 to support development of subject specific pedagogyReal unit · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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
Analysing English language for literacy and language teachingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between forms of language and meaning
- Understand structural features of language
Assess occupational competence in the work environmentReal unit · Active IQ
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 understandingReal unit · Active IQ
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
Assessing learners in education and trainingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Use types and methods of assessment to meet the needs of individual learners
- Carry out assessments in accordance with internal and external requirements
- Implement the minimum core when assessing learners
- Evaluate own assessment practice
Assessment and support for the recognition of prior learning through the accreditation of learning outcomesReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Promote understanding of recognition and accreditation of prior learning with external stakeholders
- Understand how to provide guidance for learners
- Support learners to recognise prior learning and achievement
- Assess evidence presented by learners
- Evaluate and improve practice
Delivering education and trainingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Use inclusive teaching and learning approaches in accordance with internal and external requirements
- Communicate with learners and other learning professionals to promote learning and progression
- Use technologies in delivering inclusive teaching and learning
- Implement the minimum core when delivering inclusive teaching and learning
- Evaluate own practice in delivering inclusive teaching and learning
Delivering employability skillsReal unit · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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 in a specialist areaReal unit · Active IQ
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
Effective partnership working in the learning and teaching contextReal unit · Active IQ
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 learners in the learning and development processReal unit · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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 individual learning and development needsReal unit · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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
Manage learning and development in groupsReal unit · Active IQ
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
Managing behaviours in a learning environmentReal unit · Active IQ
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
Planning to meet the needs of learners in education and trainingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Use initial and diagnostic assessment to agree individual learning goals with learners
- Plan inclusive teaching and learning in accordance with internal and external requirements
- Implement the minimum core in planning inclusive teaching and learning
- Evaluate own practice when planning inclusive teaching and learning
Preparing for the coaching roleReal unit · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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
Reading skills for literacy and language teachingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Read written texts
- Respond to written texts
Speaking and listening skills for literacy and language teachingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Present information
- Listen and respond to non verbal and verbal information
Specialist delivery techniques and activitiesReal unit · Active IQ
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 in a specialist areaReal unit · Active IQ
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
Understanding and managing behaviours in a learning environmentReal unit · Active IQ
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 roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and trainingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the teaching role and responsibilities in education and training
- Understand ways to maintain a safe and supportive learning environment
- Understand the relationships between teachers and other professionals in education and training
Understanding the principles and practices of externally assuring the quality of assessmentReal unit · Active IQ
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 · Active IQ
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
Using mathematics: academic subjectsReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret mathematical situations in academic subjects
- Process mathematical problems in academic subjects
- Analyse mathematical findings from academic subjects
- Use mathematical communication in academic subjects
Using mathematics: personal and public lifeReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret mathematical situations in personal and public life
- Process mathematical problems in personal and public life
- Analyse mathematical findings from personal and public life
- Use mathematical communication in personal and public life
Using mathematics: professional and vocational contextsReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Interpret mathematical situations in professional and vocational contexts
- Process mathematical problems in professional and vocational contexts
- Analyse mathematical findings from professional and vocational contexts
- Use mathematical communication in professional and vocational contexts
Using resources for education and trainingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Use resources in the delivery of inclusive teaching and learning
- Implement the minimum core when using resources in the delivery of inclusive teaching and learning
- Evaluate own use of resources in the delivery of inclusive teaching and learning
Working with the 14-19 age range in education and trainingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Understand national developments in educational provision for the 14-19 age range
- Understand roles and responsibilities of teachers working with the 14-19 age range
- Plan learning to meet the needs of individual 14-19 learners
- Deliver learning to meet the needs of individual 14-19 learners
- Evaluate own practice in working with the 14-19 age range
Writing skills for literacy and language teachingReal unit · Active IQ
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare written texts
- Produce written texts
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.
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.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
- Assess Learning
- Assess learner achievement
- Deliver Alexander Technique Teaching
- Develop own skills and practice to facilitate learner involvement
- Encourage Involvement of the Learner
- Influence and develop adult learning strategy
- Manage learning and development in groups
- 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.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 9 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 Active IQ Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training
43 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Active IQ.
- Action learning to support development of subject specific pedagogy
- Action research
- Analysing English language for literacy and language teaching
- Assess occupational competence in the work environment
- Assess vocational skills, knowledge and understanding
- Assessing learners in education and training
and 37 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.