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How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer 1st4sport has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and 1st4sport awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from 1st4sport.

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01What it is

Search for qualifications to offer your learners, covering a range of sports and activities, helping to boost their skills and improve their employment prospects in the sport, physical activity and active leisure industry.

These are the units 1st4sport 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 1st4sport. It does the teaching and the mapping. 1st4sport sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Building Caring Relationships Real unit · 1st4sport
This unit focuses on building supportive professional relationships using coaching tools, analysing power dynamics and capital within coach education, and evaluating how wellbeing influences the role of coach educators. You'll develop understanding of relational and contextual factors in coach education.

What you'll be able to do

  • Develop relationships that effectively support professional development, utilising appropriate coaching tools
  • Analyse power dynamics and the use of capital within their coach education practice
  • Evaluate the impact of wellbeing on the role of coach educators
Ethical and Effective Practice Real unit · 1st4sport
You'll critique the professional skills and qualities required for ethical and effective coach educators, evaluate decision-making processes within coaching practice, and interpret the roles and responsibilities inherent in coach education settings.

What you'll be able to do

  • Critique the professional skills and qualities required of an ethical and effective coach educator
  • Evaluate decision-making processes within coach education practice
  • Interpret the specific roles and responsibilities within coach education
Evaluating and Reviewing Coach Learning, Development and Assessment Real unit · 1st4sport
It teaches you to analyse various assessment methods used in coach learning and development, evaluate tools for collecting evidence, and assess feedback methods that support ongoing coach learning. You'll understand principles of valid and reliable assessment within coaching contexts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse assessment methods for learning for coaches.
  • Evaluate methods and tools to collect and document evidence of coach learning.
  • Assess methods for generating feedback to coaches that supports ongoing learning.
Exploring Coach Learning, Development and Assessment Real unit · 1st4sport
You'll evaluate key learning theories that inform coaching practices, design learner-centred strategies, and align learning, development, and assessment designs to ensure coherence and effectiveness in coach education programmes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Evaluate learning theories which inform learning, assessing and coaching practices
  • Design learner-centred learning strategies that are appropriate for the context
  • Align learning, development and assessment design to ensure coherence and effectiveness
Planning and Initiating Coach Learning, Development and Assessment Real unit · 1st4sport
You'll learn to gather information about coaches' learning needs using relevant concepts and tools. The unit covers determining appropriate pedagogical methods and planning learning interactions aligned with identified needs and curriculum requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use relevant concepts and tools to gather comprehensive information about coach wants and needs
  • Determine appropriate methods to inform pedagogical approaches to coaching education
  • Plan for effective learning interactions, taking into consideration gathered information, the chosen pedagogical approach, and the curriculum
Supporting and Sustaining Coach Learning, Development and Assessment Real unit · 1st4sport
It teaches you to analyse how learner agency influences motivation in coach learning, determine information needed to identify skills and knowledge gaps, and evaluate methods to facilitate sustained learning through effective action planning.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse how agency affects motivation for supporting and sustaining coach learning
  • Determine the information needed to support the identification of skills and knowledge gaps in coaching practice
  • Evaluate methods to facilitate ongoing and supported learning through effective action planning
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03The standards

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.

  • Develop and apply ethical practice to coaching and mentoring

    Standard

  • Evaluate and review sports coaching programmes

    Standard

  • Evaluate the outcomes and impact of performance and practices

    Standard
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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by 1st4sport 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

Building Caring RelationshipsEthical and Effective PracticeEvaluating and Reviewing Coach Learning, Development and AssessmentExploring Coach Learning, Development and AssessmentPlanning and Initiating Coach Learning, Development and AssessmentSupporting and Sustaining Coach Learning, Development and Assessment

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 The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Planning and Initiating Coach Learning, Development and Assessment” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Planning and Initiating Coach Learning, Development and Assessment” 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

    “Evaluating and Reviewing Coach Learning, Development and Assessment” 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

    “Exploring Coach Learning, Development and Assessment” 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.

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.

See Your Progress Grow Illustration
1st4sport Level 4 Certificate in Coach Education and Development
  • Develop and apply ethical practice to coaching and mentoring
  • Evaluate and review sports coaching programmes
  • Evaluate the outcomes and impact of performance and practices
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.

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 Building Caring Relationships, one of this qualification's own units.

Building Caring Relationships Level 4

Applied to your own work

This unit focuses on building supportive professional relationships using coaching tools, analysing power dynamics and capital within coach education, and evaluating how wellbeing influences the role of coach educators. Learners will develop understanding of relational and contextual factors in coach education.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 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.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for 1st4sport Level 4 Certificate in Coach Education and Development

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by 1st4sport.

  1. Building Caring Relationships
  2. Ethical and Effective Practice
  3. Evaluating and Reviewing Coach Learning, Development and Assessment
  4. Exploring Coach Learning, Development and Assessment
  5. Planning and Initiating Coach Learning, Development and Assessment
  6. Supporting and Sustaining Coach Learning, Development and Assessment
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.

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