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NCFE · RQF Level 3

NCFE CACHE Level 3 Technical Occupational Entry in Supporting Teaching and Learning (Diploma)

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

  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits53
  • Guided learning311 hours
  • Units in this qualification11

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adultsReal unit · NCFE
It teaches you to develop and maintain professional relationships with children, young people, and adults. You'll understand effective communication principles, confidentiality, data protection, and how social, professional, and cultural backgrounds influence relationships.

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 developmentReal unit · NCFE
You'll understand the requirements for competence in their work role and engage in personal and professional development. The unit includes reflecting on organisational practice, evaluating performance, agreeing development plans, and using learning opportunities.

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 organisationsReal unit · NCFE
You'll gain knowledge of the education system structure from early years to post-compulsory education, including roles and responsibilities within schools and colleges. The unit also covers teamwork, educational ethos, mission, aims, values, and the purpose of education.

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 procedures in education
Support English and maths skillsReal unit · NCFE
It teaches you to identify individual English and maths support needs and provide appropriate assistance to help learners access teaching and learning. You'll collate information, assess learning demands, and apply support strategies.

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 learningReal unit · NCFE
This unit covers the purpose and characteristics of assessment for learning and the use of assessment strategies to promote learning. You'll support learners in reviewing their progress and contribute to the evaluation and maintenance of assessment processes.

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 activitiesReal unit · NCFE
You'll learn to contribute to the planning, preparation, and support of learning activities for children and young people. The unit also covers observing, reporting on learner participation and progress, and contributing to activity evaluation.

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 environmentReal unit · NCFE
This unit equips learners with skills to support health and safety in learning environments. You'll plan and provide safe indoor and outdoor spaces, recognise and manage risks, support children and young people in risk assessment, and respond to accidents appropriately.

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 peopleReal unit · NCFE
This unit covers policies and procedures for promoting positive behaviour in children and young people within learning environments. You'll learn to encourage positive behaviour and manage challenging behaviour effectively.

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 environmentReal unit · NCFE
You'll understand policies and procedures related to ICT use in teaching and learning, prepare ICT resources, and support their effective use. The unit includes knowledge of relevant legislation and risk minimisation in the learning environment.

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 developReal unit · NCFE
You'll study the expected developmental patterns of children and young people from birth to 19 years. The unit covers biological and external factors influencing development, monitoring techniques, and interventions to support development effectively.

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 peopleReal unit · NCFE
You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of safeguarding children and young people, including relevant legislation, guidelines, policies, and procedures. The unit emphasises partnership working and maintaining safe learning environments to protect children and young people.

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 wellbeing

The honest bit

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Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 3 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.

Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adultsEngage in personal and professional developmentSchools and colleges as organisationsSupport English and maths skillsSupport 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 stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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NCFE CACHE Level 3 Technical Occupational Entry in Supporting Teaching and Learning (Diploma)
  • 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
  • Develop own skills and practice to facilitate learner involvement
  • Enable learners to identify, reflect and use their learning to enhance their future personal development
  • Prepare and maintain the learning environment
  • Provide learners with support to use ILT
  • Support implementation of the early years curriculum
  • Support the use of information and communication technology for teaching and 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.
Future FluencyAll ten future skillsSee how every unit is contextualised by the tenExplore →

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.

Build and maintain effective relationships with families to ensure a learner centred approachBuild and maintain relationships with learners to ensure a learner-centred approachDevelop own skills and practice to facilitate learner involvementEnable learners to identify, reflect and use their learning to enhance their future personal developmentPrepare and maintain the learning environmentProvide learners with support to use ILTSupport implementation of the early years curriculumSupport the use of information and communication technology for teaching and learningUse Information and Communication Technology to Support Pupils' Learning

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.
Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adultsLevel 3

Applied to your own work

This unit enables learners to develop and maintain professional relationships with children, young people, and adults. Learners will understand effective communication principles, confidentiality, data protection, and how social, professional, and cultural backgrounds influence relationships.

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 NCFE CACHE Level 3 Technical Occupational Entry in Supporting Teaching and Learning (Diploma)

11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.

  1. Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults
  2. Engage in personal and professional development
  3. Schools and colleges as organisations
  4. Support English and maths skills
  5. Support assessment for learning
  6. Support children and young people during learning activities

and 5 more in the full unit list below.

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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