Level 3 Award in Education and Training

Level 3 Award in Education and Training is an introduction to teaching. The Award is appropriate for teachers, tutors and trainers who may be working within an FE college, a Community Learning and Skills provider or an Independent Learning provider, and for those delivering work-based training – for example, within voluntary, community, private and public organisations.

The Award gives the learner an introduction to teaching and explores roles and responsibilities associated with the teaching role. It covers the planning and delivering of sessions, including engaging and motivating learners and establishing ground rules within a learning environment.

It explores the different assessment methods and the need for record-keeping. The delivery of an observed microteaching session or an assessed practice in a real work environment is a requirement of this qualification.

There are several features of this qualification that make it very appropriate for its target learners

There are Ascentis-devised assessment tasks designed to cover all the assessment criteria within the units

• Assessment tasks are designed to be holistic and relevant to learners working or intending to work within a wider range of learning environments in the Further Education and Skills sector

• Centre-devised assessment tasks are permissible provided they are approved by Ascentis before commencement of delivery

• It can be achieved by pre-service or in-service learners

This qualification replaces the Level 3 Award in Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector and the Level 4 Award in Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS) introduced in 2007 and updated in 2011.

Aims

The aims of the qualification are to enable learners:

• To understand the roles and responsibilities in relation to teaching

• To understand appropriate teaching and learning approaches within their specialist area

• To plan, deliver and evaluate microteaching sessions or assessed practice in a real work environment 4 To understand the use of assessment methods and record-keeping