OTHM Qualifications · RQF Level 5
OTHM Level 5 Diploma 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 5
- Total credits120
- Guided learning360 hours
- Units in this qualification30
Awarded by OTHM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Action Learning for Teaching in a Specialist Area of DisabilityReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
It teaches you to understand the impact of specific impairments on teaching and learning. You'll investigate effective practices in specialist disability areas, analyse communication and access challenges, and apply findings to enhance inclusive teaching approaches.
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 PedagogyReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
It teaches you to use action learning to develop subject-specific pedagogy. You'll identify areas of interest, investigate current good practice, collabourate to enhance reflective skills, evaluate their practice, and apply learning to improve teaching in their subject area.
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 ResearchReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll understand the purpose, nature, and methodologies of action research. The unit develops skills to initiate, plan, and carry out action research projects, including formulating research questions and critically evaluating outcomes to inform professional practice.
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 SkillsReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll understand the distinction between employability and employment skills and the personal qualities needed for effective delivery. The unit includes planning and delivering creative, innovative, and inclusive employability skills sessions.
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 ProgrammesReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit equips learners with knowledge of the principles underpinning the development of learning and development programmes. You'll be able to design, implement, and review programmes that consider adult learning principles, learning styles, and factors influencing effective delivery.
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 DevelopmentReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll understand the principles underpinning the development and preparation of learning and development resources. The unit includes developing resources that meet learning needs while considering accessibility, inclusivity, and relevant legislation.
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 TrainingReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit provides skills and understanding necessary to develop effective teaching, learning, and assessment strategies within educational environments.
What you'll be able to do
- 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3
Developing, Using and Organising Resources Within a Specialist AreaReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
It teaches you to understand the purpose and use of resources in their specialist area. You'll develop inclusive resources, organise access to them, and understand legal responsibilities related to resource development and use.
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 ContextReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit covers the purpose, structure, and management of partnership working in learning and teaching contexts. You'll understand how to communicate effectively with stakeholders, measure partnership outcomes, and report on partnership activities.
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 DevelopmentReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit provides learners with an understanding of workforce development opportunities and the importance of engaging with employers. You'll learn to communicate effectively, identify employer needs, and design and facilitate tailored workplace learning and development programmes.
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 · OTHM Qualifications
You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of equality and diversity within the UK context. The unit covers the features of cultures that promote equality, the impact of discrimination, and legal and ethical responsibilities, enabling learners to actively promote equality and value diversity in lifelong learning.
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 ProgrammesReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit covers the principles and methods of evaluating learning programmes. You'll develop skills in data collection and analysis and understand how evaluation results can inform improvements and demonstrate accountability.
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 OrganisationsReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit covers the principles and practices of learning needs analysis within organisations. You'll learn to conduct learning needs analysis using appropriate methods and agree organisational learning and development plans with relevant stakeholders.
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 · OTHM Qualifications
This unit provides learners with an understanding of factors influencing learning and the impact of policy and regulatory frameworks on inclusive practice. You'll explore roles and responsibilities and learn how to create and maintain an inclusive learning environment.
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 AssessmentReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll learn to plan, evaluate, maintain, and improve the internal quality assurance of assessment. The unit covers managing information and ensuring compliance with legal and good practice requirements in assessment quality assurance.
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 GroupsReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll understand the principles and practices of managing learning and development within groups. The unit covers group dynamics, roles, and characteristics of effective learning environments, enabling learners to establish supportive group settings and apply appropriate management methodologies.
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 RoleReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll explore the role and responsibilities of a coach, including the boundaries of the coaching role. The unit also covers the use of coaching in specific contexts and how to identify client goals and outcomes effectively.
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 RoleReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll prepare for the mentoring role by understanding their responsibilities, boundaries, and ethical considerations. The unit covers identifying client goals, the use of mentoring in specific contexts, and the skills and experience required to support mentee development effectively.
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 · OTHM Qualifications
This unit provides learners with an understanding of the personal tutoring role, including responsibilities and professional boundaries. You'll consider factors affecting learners' approaches and learn to create personal learning targets and support plans.
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 TeachingReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll gain knowledge of the physiological and psychological aspects of hearing, the effects of acquired hearing loss, and how amplification and lip-reading can be optimised. The unit also covers the phonology of spoken English relevant to lip-reading teaching.
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 ActivitiesReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll explore specialist delivery techniques and learning activities within a specific area. The unit covers the development, application, and evaluation of these techniques to enhance learning, considering factors influencing selection and effectiveness in practice.
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 · OTHM Qualifications
This unit provides learners with knowledge of education and training aims, philosophy, and key qualifications within a specialist area. You'll apply inclusive teaching principles and use resources effectively to support learning.
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 TrainingReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit provides foundational knowledge and skills related to teaching, learning, and assessment in education and training contexts, emphasising inclusive practices and learner engagement.
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 TrainingReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit focuses on the application of various learning theories, principles, and models to practice in education and training, helping educators understand how these frameworks influence learning outcomes.
What you'll be able to do
- 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4
Understanding Theories and Frameworks for Teaching Disabled LearnersReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
You'll study key theories and research informing the teaching of disabled learners. The unit covers factors influencing inclusive practice, the social model of disability, and the impact of policy and regulatory frameworks on provision.
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 EnvironmentReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit provides learners with an understanding of behaviours in learning environments, including their characteristics and impact. You'll study relevant legislation and policies and apply behaviour management theories to maintain purposeful learning settings.
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 and Managing Behaviours in a Learning EnvironmentReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
It teaches you to understand factors leading to disruptive behaviours in learning environments. You'll study organisational policies and develop skills to promote positive behaviours and manage challenging situations effectively.
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the potential factors that can lead to behaviours that disrupt a learning environment.
- Understand organisational policies and procedures relating to the management of behaviours within the learning environment.
- Promote positive behaviours that contribute to a purposeful and productive learning environment.
- Manage behaviours that disrupt a purposeful learning environment effectively and fairly.
- Evaluate your own practices in managing behaviours within a learning environment, identifying areas for improvement.
Understanding the Principles and Practices of Externally Assuring the Quality of AssessmentReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of external quality assurance in assessment. You'll study its purpose, principles of fairness, validity, and reliability, and the processes involved in planning, evaluating, maintaining, and improving assessment quality externally.
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 · OTHM Qualifications
You'll understand the context and principles of internal quality assurance in assessment. The unit covers planning, monitoring, and improving assessment quality internally, including roles and responsibilities, techniques, and criteria to ensure consistent and effective quality assurance practices.
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 TrainingReal unit · OTHM Qualifications
This unit explores professional development areas for educators, emphasising the importance of wider professional networks and practices to enhance learning outcomes.
What you'll be able to do
- 1.1 and 1.2
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.
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 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.
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
Training & Development Specialist
Your career here is what you make it. We'll give you the tools, the support, and the opportunities, but ultimately, your growth is in your hands. If you're someone who loves learning and helping others do the same, you'll find plenty of room to build a fantastic career with us.
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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.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Which job do you mean?
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.
How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
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.
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
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.
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.