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 OTHM Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and OTHM Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OTHM Qualifications.
The OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training is a qualification aimed at providing learners with the requisite knowledge, skills, and understanding required in the field of education and training. The qualification requires a structured teaching and assessment approach to develop the competencies necessary for educators and trainers in various educational settings.
These are the units OTHM Qualifications 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.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with OTHM Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. OTHM Qualifications sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Action Learning for Teaching in a Specialist Area of Disability Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of a specific impairment on teaching and learning
- Understand how to investigate effective practice in a specialist area of disability
- Investigate practice in a specialist area of disability
- Apply learning from an investigation of practice to own professional practice
Action Learning to Support Development of Subject Specific Pedagogy Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify an area of interest related to practice in your own subject specific area
- Investigate current good practice in your own subject specific area
- Work with others to improve your own skills in reflective practice
- Evaluate your own practice in a subject specific area
- Apply learning from investigation of an area of interest to your own practice in a subject specific area
- Present findings from investigation of an area of interest in your own subject specific area
Action Research Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
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
Delivering Employability Skills Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key differences between employability skills and employment skills.
- Understand the personal qualities, skills, and competencies required for effective employability skills delivery.
- Understand how to plan and deliver creative, innovative, and inclusive sessions that are appropriate for employability skills delivery.
- Understand how to use group contracts, rewards, and penalties to reflect the expectations of the workplace.
- Use techniques and practices that accurately reflect the demands and expectations of the workplace.
- Understand the need for continuous personal development to reflect changing sector and marketplace requirements in employability skills.
Develop Learning and Development Programmes Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
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
Develop and Prepare Resources for Learning and Development Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles underpinning the development and preparation of resources for learning and development activities.
- Develop appropriate resources to meet identified learning and development needs.
- Prepare resources effectively for use in learning and development activities.
Developing Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Education and Training Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3
Developing, Using and Organising Resources Within a Specialist Area Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and use of resources in your own specialist area
- Develop and use inclusive resources in your 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
- Understand how to evaluate your own practice in relation to development and use of resources in your own specialist area
Effective Partnerships Working in the Learning and Teaching Context Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and nature of partnership working within the learning and teaching context.
- Understand the specific purpose, aims, and objectives of a given partnership.
- Understand the structure and management arrangements of a partnership.
- Understand how to measure and report on a partnership’s outputs and outcomes.
- Understand how to communicate effectively with all stakeholders within a partnership.
- Understand the wider context within which a partnership operates, including relevant policies and regulations.
Engage with Employers to Facilitate Workforces Development Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
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 Diversity Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
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
Evaluating Learning Programmes Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles that underpin the evaluation of learning programmes.
- Understand and apply a range of evaluation methods suitable for learning programmes.
- Understand how to collect relevant data for evaluating learning programmes.
- Analyse data collected to evaluate learning programmes effectively.
- Understand how the results of evaluations can be used to improve the design and delivery of learning programmes.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of own practice in the context of learning programme delivery.
Identify the Learning Needs of Organisations Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
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 Practice Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various factors that can influence learning processes.
- Understand the impact of relevant policies on inclusive practice in education and training.
- Understand the impact of relevant regulatory frameworks on inclusive practice in education and training.
- Understand the different roles and associated responsibilities relating to inclusive practice.
- Understand how to create a learning environment that promotes inclusivity.
- Understand how to maintain a learning environment that promotes inclusivity.
- Understand how to evaluate your own inclusive practice in education and training.
Internally Assure the Quality of Assessment Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the internal quality assurance processes for assessment activities.
- Internally evaluate the quality of assessment practices and procedures.
- Internally maintain the quality of assessment through consistent application of standards.
- Internally improve the quality of assessment through identifying and implementing enhancements.
- Manage information effectively that is relevant to the internal quality assurance of assessment.
- Maintain compliance with legal requirements when internally monitoring the quality of assessment.
- Maintain compliance with good practice guidelines when internally monitoring the quality of assessment.
- Maintain compliance with legal requirements when internally maintaining the quality of assessment.
- Maintain compliance with good practice guidelines when internally maintaining the quality of assessment.
Manage Learning and Development in Groups Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
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
Preparing for the Coaching Role Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand your 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 Role Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
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 Role Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand your own role and responsibilities in relation to the personal tutoring role within an educational setting.
- Understand the various factors that can affect learners’ approaches to learning and their overall academic performance.
- Understand the specific use of personal tutoring within a defined educational context or institution.
- Understand how to create effective and achievable personal learning targets for individual learners.
Principles and Practice of Lip-reading Teaching Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the physiological processes involved in hearing.
- Understand the psychological functions related to hearing.
- Understand the various effects of acquired hearing loss on individuals.
- Understand the methods by which amplification devices can be optimised for individuals with hearing loss.
- Understand how lip-reading skills can be optimised for individuals with hearing loss.
- Understand the phonology of spoken English, including its sounds and structures.
- Apply knowledge of spoken English phonology to lip-reading learning.
- Apply knowledge of spoken English phonology to lip-reading teaching.
- Use specialist techniques for teaching lip-reading effectively.
- Apply appropriate methodologies for teaching lip-reading.
- Understand the range of assistive aids available to individuals with acquired hearing loss.
- Understand the services available to support individuals with acquired hearing loss.
Specialist Delivery Techniques and Activities Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
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 Area Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the aims and philosophy of education and training within a chosen specialist area.
- Understand the aims and structure of key qualifications and learning programmes available to learners in a chosen specialist area.
- Understand the principles of inclusive learning and teaching, and key curriculum issues relevant to a chosen specialist area.
- Understand how to effectively use resources to promote inclusive learning and teaching within a chosen specialist area.
- Work collaboratively with others within a chosen specialist area to develop own practice.
- Evaluate, improve, and update own knowledge and skills to maintain competence in a chosen specialist area.
Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Education and Training Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4
- 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4
Theories, Principles and Models in Education and Training Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4
Understanding Theories and Frameworks for Teaching Disabled Learners Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key theories and research findings that inform the learning and teaching of disabled young people and adults.
- Understand the various factors that influence inclusive practice for disabled learners in education and training.
- Understand the impact of relevant policy and regulatory frameworks on the provision of education and training for disabled young people and adults.
- Understand the factors that influence the design and delivery of the curriculum for disabled young people and adults.
Understanding and Managing Behaviours in a Learning Environment Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of different behaviours that may be observed in a learning environment.
- Understand the potential impact of different behaviours on the learning environment.
- Understand relevant legislation relating to the management of behaviours in a learning environment.
- Understand organisational policies relating to the management of behaviours in a learning environment.
- Apply theories of behaviour management to create a purposeful learning environment.
- Apply theories of behaviour management to maintain a purposeful learning environment.
- Evaluate your own practice in managing behaviours within a learning environment.
Understanding the Principles and Practices of Externally Assuring the Quality of Assessment Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
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 Assessment Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
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
Wider Professional Practice in Education and Training Real unit · OTHM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- 1.1 and 1.2
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Where this can lead
Training & Development Specialist
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OTHM Qualifications 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
Action Learning for Teaching in a Specialist Area of DisabilityAction Learning to Support Development of Subject Specific PedagogyAction ResearchDelivering Employability SkillsDevelop Learning and Development ProgrammesDevelop and Prepare Resources for Learning and DevelopmentDeveloping Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Education and TrainingDeveloping, Using and Organising Resources Within a Specialist Area
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 “Develop Learning and Development Programmes” 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
“Action Research” 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
“Manage Learning and Development in Groups” 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.
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 Action Learning for Teaching in a Specialist Area of Disability, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit enables learners to understand the impact of specific impairments on teaching and learning. Learners will investigate effective practices in specialist disability areas, analyse communication and access challenges, and apply findings to enhance inclusive teaching approaches.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OTHM Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training
29 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OTHM Qualifications.
- Action Learning for Teaching in a Specialist Area of Disability
- Action Learning to Support Development of Subject Specific Pedagogy
- Action Research
- Delivering Employability Skills
- Develop Learning and Development Programmes
- Develop and Prepare Resources for Learning and Development
and 23 more in the full unit list below.
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