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ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 5

ATHE Level 5 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 5
  • Total credits90
  • Guided learning270 hours
  • Units in this qualification6

Awarded by ATHE Ltd · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Unlike our core portfolio of qualifications, which offer broad appeal and are open to all our centres, Bespoke Qualifications are tailored to centres’ specialist course content and meet the needs of their learners and sector. You can browse our portfolio by level to the right of this page.

These are the units ATHE Ltd 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.

An Introduction to Education and TeachingReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll develop a foundational understanding of the historical development of education and teaching. The unit examines educational philosophies and analyses the evolving roles and responsibilities of teachers in contemporary settings.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the historical evolution of education and teaching practices.
  • Understand the philosophical principles that underpin teaching and learning methodologies.
  • Understand how the roles and responsibilities of teachers have changed over time.
Health and Safety and the Well-being of Children and Young PeopleReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll gain comprehensive knowledge of health, safety, child protection, and safeguarding legislation, policies, and procedures. The unit explores factors affecting children and young people's well-being and how to support risk management effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand appropriate legislation related to health, safety, child protection and safeguarding.
  • Understand appropriate policies related to health, safety, child protection and safeguarding.
  • Understand appropriate procedures related to health, safety, child protection and safeguarding.
  • Understand factors influencing the health, safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
  • Understand how to provide support in managing risks to children and young people’s health, safety and wellbeing.
  • Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused.
  • Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been harmed.
  • Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been bullied.
Human Development and GrowthReal unit · ATHE Ltd
It teaches you to understand human development patterns across physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains from infancy to adolescence. It includes key developmental theories and considers the impact of transitions on development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the typical pattern of human development through different developmental stages, from childhood to adolescence.
  • Understand various theories and approaches to child development, including cognitive, social, and emotional development.
  • Understand the potential effects of transitions, such as starting school or moving to a new area, on children and young people's development.
Roles and Responsibilities of the Teaching AssistantReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll understand the roles and responsibilities of Teaching Assistants within educational settings. The unit highlights the importance of teamwork, professional ethics, and establishing effective communication and collabouration.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the various roles and responsibilities of a Teaching Assistant within an educational setting.
  • Understand the importance of teamwork and collaboration within an organisation providing teaching and learning.
  • Demonstrate professional work ethics in the context of supporting teaching and learning.
  • Establish effective communication and collaboration within an organisation providing teaching and learning.
School/College as a Learning OrganisationReal unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit provides learners with knowledge of the education system's structure and stages within a specified country. It covers the purpose, mission, aims, values, roles, governance, legislation, and policies of teaching and learning organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the structure of the education system and the different stages of education within a specified country.
  • Understand the purpose, mission, aims, and values of a teaching and learning organisation.
  • Understand the different roles within a teaching and learning organisation, including governance responsibilities and organisational structures.
  • Know the importance of legislation relating to education and training, as well as organisational policies and procedures.
Supporting Teaching and LearningReal unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit equips learners with skills to assist teachers in planning and preparing teaching and learning activities. You'll provide support during lessons and assessments and assist students with identified needs to enhance learning experiences.

What you'll be able to do

  • Assist the teacher in planning teaching and learning activities.
  • Prepare learning resources to support teaching and learning activities.
  • Prepare activities to support teaching and learning activities.
  • Provide support to students during teaching and learning activities.
  • Provide support to teachers during teaching and learning activities.
  • Provide support during assessment activities.
  • Support students with identifying their learning needs.
  • Support students with setting learning goals.
  • Support students with planning actions to achieve their learning goals.
  • Make preparations for the conduct of tests.
  • Make preparations for the conduct of examinations.
  • Design displays to enhance the learning environment.
  • Set up displays to enhance the learning environment.
  • Manage extra-curricular activities for students.

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.

An Introduction to Education and TeachingHealth and Safety and the Well-being of Children and Young PeopleHuman Development and GrowthRoles and Responsibilities of the Teaching AssistantSchool/College as a Learning OrganisationSupporting Teaching and Learning

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator

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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.

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Where 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.

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ATHE Level 5 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning
  • Contribute to the planning and evaluation of teaching and learning
  • Provide effective support for your colleagues
  • Provide support for learning activities in life sciences and related industries
  • Providing Specialist Learning Support
  • Support implementation of the early years curriculum
  • Support pupils’ learning activities
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.
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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.

Contribute to the planning and evaluation of teaching and learningProvide effective support for your colleaguesProvide support for learning activities in life sciences and related industriesProviding Specialist Learning SupportSupport implementation of the early years curriculumSupport pupils’ learning activities

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
An Introduction to Education and TeachingLevel 5

Applied to your own work

Learners will develop a foundational understanding of the historical development of education and teaching. The unit examines educational philosophies and analyses the evolving roles and responsibilities of teachers in contemporary settings.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  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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Built for ATHE Level 5 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.

  1. An Introduction to Education and Teaching
  2. Health and Safety and the Well-being of Children and Young People
  3. Human Development and Growth
  4. Roles and Responsibilities of the Teaching Assistant
  5. School/College as a Learning Organisation
  6. Supporting Teaching and Learning
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.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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.

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