How you’d get this certificate
- 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 NCFE has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NCFE awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NCFE.
Education and Training, Supporting Teaching and Learning
These are the units NCFE 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 NCFE. It does the teaching and the mapping. NCFE 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
Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of developing positive relationships with children, young people and adults
- Understand legislation, policies and procedures for confidentiality and sharing information, including data protection
- Develop professional relationships with children and young people
- Communicate with children and young people
- Develop professional relationships with adults
- Support children and young people in developing relationships
- Support inclusion and inclusive practices in work with children and young people
Engage in personal and professional development Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is required for competence in own work role
- Reflect on organisational practice
- Evaluate own performance
- Agree a personal development plan
- Use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development
Schools and colleges as organisations Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure of education from early years to post- compulsory education
- Understand how schools and colleges are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities
- Understand teamwork in schools and colleges
- Understand educational ethos, mission, aims and values
- Understand the purpose of policies and schools and procedures in education
Support English and maths skills* Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Identify learner needs for English and maths support
- Provide English support to help learners access teaching and learning
- Provide maths support to help learners access teaching and learning
Support assessment for learning Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and characteristics of assessment for learning
- Use assessment strategies to promote learning
- Support learners in reviewing their learning strategies and achievements
- Contribute to reviewing assessment for learning
- Maintain learner records
Support children and young people during learning activities Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to planning learning activities
- Prepare for learning activities
- Support learning activities
- Observe and report on learner participation and progress
- Contribute to the evaluation of learning activities
Support health and safety in a learning environment Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan and provide environments that support children and young people’s health and safety
- Understand how to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a learning environment or during off-site visits
- Understand how to support children and young people to assess and manage risk for themselves
- Understand appropriate responses to accidents, incidents, emergencies and illness in the learning environment and during off-site visits
- Understand own role in assisting in the administration of medication
Support positive behaviour in children and young people Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand policies and procedures for promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour in a learning environment
- Promote positive behaviour
- Manage behaviour that challenges in a learning environment
Support the use of ICT in the learning environment Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the policy and procedures for the use of ICT for teaching and learning
- Understand how to prepare ICT resources for use in teaching and learning
- Support the use of ICT for teaching and learning
Understand how children and young people develop Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to 19 years
- Understand the factors that influence children and young people’s development and how these affect practice
- Understand how to monitor children and young people’s development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern
Understand how to safeguard children and young people Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
- Understand how to work in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people
- Understand the need to ensure children and young people’s safety and protection in the learning environment
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
- Understand how to work with children and young people to support their well-being
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.
- Standard
Build and maintain effective relationships with families to ensure a learner centred approach
- Standard
Build and maintain relationships with learners to ensure a learner-centred approach
- Standard
Contribute to assessment for learning
- Standard
Develop and promote positive relationships
- Standard
Provide learners with support to use ILT
- Standard
Support implementation of the early years curriculum
- Standard
Support others in developing their practice
- Standard
Support the use of information and communication technology for teaching and learning
The credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NCFE 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
Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adultsEngage in personal and professional developmentSchools and colleges as organisationsSupport English and maths skills*Support assessment for learningSupport children and young people during learning activitiesSupport health and safety in a learning environmentSupport positive behaviour in children and young people
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 Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Understand how to safeguard children and young people” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
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.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with families to ensure a learner centred approach
- Build and maintain relationships with learners to ensure a learner-centred approach
- Contribute to assessment for learning
- Develop and promote positive relationships
- Provide learners with support to use ILT
- Support implementation of the early years curriculum
- Support others in developing their practice
- Support the use of information and communication technology for teaching and learning
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 Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your own work
This unit focuses on developing professional relationships with children, young people, and adults. Learners will understand effective communication, the impact of diverse backgrounds, and legislation relating to confidentiality and information sharing.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NCFE CACHE Level 3 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults
- Engage in personal and professional development
- Schools and colleges as organisations
- Support English and maths skills*
- Support assessment for learning
- Support children and young people during learning activities
and 5 more in the full unit list below.
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