NCFE CACHE Level 3 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning

Description

This qualification provides learners with an understanding of the knowledge needed when working directly with children and young people in a school or college environment.

It will enable learners to gain an understanding of elements including children and young people’s development, safeguarding their welfare, and communication and professional relationships.

This qualification aims to:

• Focus on the study of supporting teaching and learning

• Offer breadth and depth of study, incorporating a key core of knowledge

• Provide opportunities to acquire a number of practical and technical skills

The objectives of this qualification are to:

• Provide learners with knowledge and understanding needed to work in a school or college environment

• Provide a stepping stone into further learning within the sector

As learners need to show competence in both skills and knowledge, they will need to be working or be ona practical placement during the duration of the taught programme of study, in a learning environment (school or college). CACHE recommends that the learner undertakes 100 hours of placement in a real workenvironment. Simulation is not allowed

What's Included

To achieve the qualification, learners must pass the following mandatory units through a range of internally and externally assessed criteria:

• Unit 1: Schools and colleges as organisations

• Unit 2: Support health and safety in a learning environment

• Unit 3: Understand how to safeguard children and young people

• Unit 4: Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults

• Unit 5: Understand how children and young people develop

• Unit 6: Support positive behaviour in children and young people

• Unit 7: Support children and young people during learning activities

• Unit 8: Support English and maths skills

• Unit 9: Support the use of ICT in the learning environment

• Unit 10: Support assessment for learning

• Unit 11: Engage in personal and professional development