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How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Open College Network Northern Ireland has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Open College Network Northern Ireland awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Open College Network Northern Ireland.

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01What it is

Open College Network Northern Ireland (OCN NI) is a Nationally Recognised Awarding organisation which offer high quality flexible, credit based qualifications

These are the units Open College Network Northern Ireland 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 Open College Network Northern Ireland. It does the teaching and the mapping. Open College Network Northern Ireland sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Assessing Learners and Learning Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
You'll understand the role of assessment in learning and develop skills to carry out assessments using appropriate methods. The unit covers formative and summative assessments, supporting learner progress, identifying needs, and providing constructive feedback.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of assessment in supporting and enhancing the learning process.
  • Understand different assessment methods and their suitability for various learning contexts.
  • Carry out assessments of learners, using appropriate methods for the learning context.
  • Provide constructive feedback to learners based on assessment outcomes.
Evaluating own Teaching Practice Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
You'll develop the ability to critically evaluate their own teaching practice. The unit covers identifying strengths and areas for development, assessing the effectiveness of teaching methods, and analysing learner feedback to improve practice.

What you'll be able to do

  • Evaluate own teaching practice, identifying strengths and areas for development.
Managing the Learning Environment Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
This unit provides knowledge and skills to create and manage a safe and positive learning environment. You'll identify hazards, promote positive behaviour, and implement strategies to maintain a supportive and secure setting.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of creating a safe and positive learning environment.
  • Understand the methods for managing a safe and positive learning environment.
  • Create a safe and positive learning environment for learners.
  • Manage a safe and positive learning environment, addressing any issues that arise.
Planning and Delivering Learning Activities Real unit · Open College Network Northern Ireland
This unit equips learners with the skills to design and deliver a learning programme to meet specific objectives. You'll analyse learner needs, consider learning styles, select assessment methods, and apply suitable teaching resources and techniques.

What you'll be able to do

  • Design a programme of learning to meet a specific set of objectives, considering learner needs, learning styles, and assessment methods.
  • Deliver a programme of learning to meet a specific set of objectives, using appropriate teaching methods, resources, and assessment strategies.
03The standards

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.

  • Assess Learning

    Standard

  • Plan Learning

    Standard

  • Plan and deliver learning

    Standard
04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Open College Network Northern Ireland 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

Assessing Learners and LearningEvaluating own Teaching PracticeManaging the Learning EnvironmentPlanning and Delivering Learning Activities

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 The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Planning and Delivering Learning Activities” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Planning and Delivering Learning Activities” 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

    “Evaluating own Teaching Practice” 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.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Managing the Learning Environment” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

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.

See Your Progress Grow Illustration
OCN NI Level 4 Certificate in Teaching: Adult and Continuing Education
  • Assess Learning
  • Plan Learning
  • Plan and deliver learning
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

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 Assessing Learners and Learning, one of this qualification's own units.

Assessing Learners and Learning Level 4

Applied to your own work

Learners will understand the role of assessment in learning and develop skills to carry out assessments using appropriate methods. The unit covers formative and summative assessments, supporting learner progress, identifying needs, and providing constructive feedback.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 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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Your Plan Illustration

Built for OCN NI Level 4 Certificate in Teaching: Adult and Continuing Education

4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Open College Network Northern Ireland.

  1. Assessing Learners and Learning
  2. Evaluating own Teaching Practice
  3. Managing the Learning Environment
  4. Planning and Delivering Learning Activities
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.

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