T Level Technical Qualification in Education and Early Years

What you will learn

The Level 3 technical qualification in Education and Early Years will provide you with the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to progress into skilled employment or higher-level technical training or study within the early years sector.

T Levels are new, two-year (1800 hours), technical study programmes, designed with employers to give young people the skills that industry needs.

This qualification has been developed in collaboration with employers, leading health and science sector bodies, and expert practitioners which has ensured these technical qualifications reflect the needs of the health and science sector and specialist occupations they serve – in turn supporting your preparation for work or further study in the sector.

The T Level qualification in Early Years will include the following mandatory elements:

• a ‘core’ set of underpinning knowledge, concepts and skills: ‘core content’. The core content for the Early Years T Level will cover the following areas - supporting education, safeguarding, behaviour, working with others, child development, equality and diversity, and observation/assessment.

• specialist content covering occupational or industry-specific skills: ‘occupational specialist content’

• industry placement with an employer (420 hours) In addition to this, maths, English, and general digital skills will be integrated within the qualification in occupationally relevant contexts.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand how to support young children in education

• Understand safeguarding, health, safety and wellbeing

• Understand child development

• Understand the principles of observation and assessment

• Understand the principles of reflective practice

• Understand behaviour management in the early years

• Understand the principles of equality and diversity

• Understand the principles in working with families where English is an additional language