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NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning (RQF)
Key Points
- Understand how to competently carry out the role of a teaching assistant
- Learn how to provide support to children and young people in their learning
- Develop essential communication skills to work with individuals of all abilities and needs
- Fully revised and updated course for 2020
- Develop essential knowledge for working in a school environment
- Become a fully qualified teaching assistant
- This qualification is aimed at learners working in roles that offer specialist support for pupils’ learning in primary, secondary or special schools, as well as colleges
About your Level 3 Diploma
All new for 2020, this Level 3 Diploma boasts a fully revised and updated syllabus to reflect the latest best practices and educational methodologies for supporting children and young people in both primary and secondary education settings.
This qualification is also aimed at learners working in roles that provide specialist support for pupils’ learning in primary, secondary or special schools, as well as colleges.
This Level 3 Diploma will fully prepare you to work in an educational setting with children and young people, including those with learning disabilities and with special educational needs.
You will be provided with the knowledge needed to collaborate with colleagues in preparing lessons and deliver planned activities in a safe, supportive, and structured way.
This Diploma will teach you everything from the principles of safeguarding, inclusivity, developing positive relationships with children and young people to the importance of communication, including those with differing and/or special needs.
You will develop the knowledge needed to collaborate with colleagues in preparing lessons and deliver planned activities in a safe, supportive, and structured way.
The Diploma will focuses on learners from 5 years of age although there a requirement to undertake some learning on the development of early years provision (theory).
Upon completing this course, you will be ready to embark on your career in education, providing a source of support for both your class teacher and the children.
Getting Started
Stonebridge Associated Colleges is one of the UK’s leading distance learning providers. Our online offering allows you to learn from anywhere. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.
The online learning portal will give you access to all your course materials, whenever you want to study them.
You will have the support of a dedicated tutor throughout the course, who will mark your assignments and answer any questions, should you get stuck.
By studying online, you can dictate the pace of your learning as there are no physical classes or timetables. That means you can work your learning around your existing commitments.
You can start studying towards your Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools right away. From the moment you enrol you will have full access to the course materials, so you can start your new career in no time.
Qualification: NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning (RQF)
On successful completion of our NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning (RQF) you will receive a qualification listed on the RQF at level 3 (Qualification Reference Number: 603/2496/X). This course has also been assigned 53 credits.
Requirements for Entry
There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds. However, please note that you must have a placement or be working in a suitable educational setting. The recommended number of placement, or work experience hours, differs if learners have completed the Certificate in Supporting Teaching & Learning qualification.
In order to successfully complete this qualification, every student must participate in real work experience. It is recommended that your placement, or job role, will allow between 50 hours (minimum) - 200 hours, (OR up to an additional 100 hours if the Certificate in Supporting Teaching & Learning has already been successfully completed). This placement can be either paid or voluntary, so long as it provides the necessary evidence that the student needs to pass the course and allows the learner to demonstrate their practice over a period of time. This qualification allows the placement to be in a school or a College but excludes:
- After school clubs
- Colleges
- Distance learning colleges
- Pre-schools
Along with the first set of course materials, you will also receive a comprehensive course guide. This will outline the placement requirements, how to set it up and the type of activities that will be assessed, including examples of the paperwork that you will submit to your assessor for evidence.
Please note: You must be at least 16 years of age to join this course.
Professional Membership
On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):
Stonebridge is a NCFE CACHE registered Centre
NCFE CACHE is the UK's longest established awarding body, recognised as a highly professional and responsive organisation, committed to maintaining excellent customer service and a friendly approach.
NCFE CACHE is one of the UK’s fastest growing national awarding bodies, designing and awarding qualifications that are nationally recognised to meet the needs of learners and employers.
Accreditation by NCFE CACHE is a guarantee of quality. It means that the college has been inspected and approved by an independent and experienced education professional and is quality audited biannually by NCFE CACHE. The centre delivering the programmes has been licensed by NCFE CACHE on the basis of its own quality systems. At the end of an accredited course, successful learners will also receive an NCFE CACHE Award certificate of achievement.
NCFE CACHE provide a wide range of qualifications accredited by Ofqual at different levels and in a variety of subject areas. NCFE CACHE also offer NVQs, Key Skills, Basic Skills and Entry Level qualifications.
Accreditation by NCFE CACHE is a guarantee of quality. It means that the college has been inspected and approved by an independent and experienced education professional and is quality audited biannually by NCFE CACHE . The centre delivering the programmes has been licensed by NCFE CACHE on the basis of its own quality systems. At the end of an accredited course, successful learners will also receive an NCFE CACHE Award certificate of achievement.
Our NCFE CACHE accredited courses are accredited to various levels (from level 1 – level 5). These courses lead to a nationally recognised NCFE CACHE certificate for successful learners. That means that the course is independently accredited at a level of learning equivalent to that level on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Last year over a quarter of a million learners from almost 1000 training organisations chose NCFE CACHE as the awarding body to help them move their careers forward.
If you would like to visit NCFE CACHE ’s website, please click here.
The units are broken down for your here so that you can see what your qualification will include. However, the assignments you complete have been designed so that you can complete multiple tasks together where possible and you will see a different number of assignments in your personal portfolio; you will still be completing the whole qualification.
Unit 1: Schools and colleges as organisations
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the structure of education from early years to postcompulsory 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
Unit 2: Support health and safety in a learning environment
On completion of this unit you will:
- 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
Unit 3: Understand how to safeguard children and young people
On completion of this unit you will:
- 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 well-being
Unit 4: Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults
On completion of this unit you will:
- 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
- Be able to develop professional relationships with children and young people
- Be able to communicate with children and young people
- Be able to develop professional relationships with adults
- Be able to support children and young people in developing relationships
- Be able to support inclusion and inclusive practices in work with children and young people
Unit 5: Understand how children and young people develop
On completion of this unit you will:
- 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
Unit 6: Support positive behaviour in children and young people
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand policies and procedures for promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour in a learning environment
- Be able to promote positive behaviour
- Be able to manage behaviour that challenges in a learning environment
Unit 7: Support children and young people during learning activities
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able to contribute to planning learning activities
- Be able to prepare for learning activities
- Be able to support learning activities
- Be able to observe and report on learner participation and progress
- Be able to contribute to the evaluation of learning activities
Unit 8: Support English and maths skills
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able to identify learner needs for English and maths support
- Be able to provide English support to help learners access teaching and learning
- Be able to provide maths support to help learners access teaching and learning
Unit 9: Support the use of ICT in the learning environment
On completion of this unit you will:
- 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
- Be able to support the use of ICT for teaching and learning
Unit 10: Support assessment for learning
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the purpose and characteristics of assessment for learning
- Be able to use assessment strategies to promote learning
- Be able to support learners in reviewing their learning strategies and achievements
- Be able to contribute to reviewing assessment for learning
- Be able to maintain learner records
Unit 11: Engage in personal and professional development
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand what is required for competence in own work role
- Be able to reflect on organisational practice
- Be able to evaluate own performance
- Be able to agree a personal development plan
- Be able to use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development
Unit 12: Support children and young people’s speech, language and communication
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the importance of speech, language and communication for children and young people’s overall development
- Understand the role of support staff when supporting speech, language and communication development in the learning environment
- Be able to provide support for the speech, language and communication development of children and young people in the learning environment
- Be able to contribute to maintaining a positive environment that supports speech, language and communication
Unit 13: Understand how to support bilingual learners
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand how to contribute to the assessment of bilingual learners
- Understand how to support bilingual learners to access the curriculum
Unit 14: Understand how to support learning of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the principles of inclusive practice and the rights of disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs
- Understand how to obtain information about individual needs, capabilities and interests of disabled children and young people, and those with special educational needs
- Understand the special educational needs of children and young people with cognition and learning needs
- Understand the special educational needs of children and young people with emotional, behavioural and social development needs
- Understand the special educational needs of learners with sensory and/or physical needs
- Understand the kinds of strategies needed to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
Unit 15: Support children and young people during transitions
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the range and impact of transitions that children and young people may experience
- Be able to recognise and respond to transitions in children and young people’s lives
- Be able to support children and young people to manage transitions in their lives
Unit 16: Support the role of play, leisure and extra-curricular activities for children and young people
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the nature and importance of play and leisure
- Understand own role in relation to the requirements of play and leisure activities
- Understand how to balance risk and challenge with the benefits of the play and leisure opportunity
At the end of each unit, learners must complete an assessment paper which will be sent to their tutor for marking.
This method of continal assessment ensures your assessor can consistently support your progress and give you the assistance you need throughout your course.
What's Included
- All study materials
- Study Guide
- Full Tutor and Admin support
- The course fee includes the awarding body registration and certification fee (valued at up to £96.00).
NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning (RQF)
Key Points
- Understand how to competently carry out the role of a teaching assistant
- Learn how to provide support to children and young people in their learning
- Develop essential communication skills to work with individuals of all abilities and needs
- Fully revised and updated course for 2020
- Develop essential knowledge for working in a school environment
- Become a fully qualified teaching assistant
- This qualification is aimed at learners working in roles that offer specialist support for pupils’ learning in primary, secondary or special schools, as well as colleges
About your Level 3 Diploma
All new for 2020, this Level 3 Diploma boasts a fully revised and updated syllabus to reflect the latest best practices and educational methodologies for supporting children and young people in both primary and secondary education settings.
This qualification is also aimed at learners working in roles that provide specialist support for pupils’ learning in primary, secondary or special schools, as well as colleges.
This Level 3 Diploma will fully prepare you to work in an educational setting with children and young people, including those with learning disabilities and with special educational needs.
You will be provided with the knowledge needed to collaborate with colleagues in preparing lessons and deliver planned activities in a safe, supportive, and structured way.
This Diploma will teach you everything from the principles of safeguarding, inclusivity, developing positive relationships with children and young people to the importance of communication, including those with differing and/or special needs.
You will develop the knowledge needed to collaborate with colleagues in preparing lessons and deliver planned activities in a safe, supportive, and structured way.
The Diploma will focuses on learners from 5 years of age although there a requirement to undertake some learning on the development of early years provision (theory).
Upon completing this course, you will be ready to embark on your career in education, providing a source of support for both your class teacher and the children.
Getting Started
Stonebridge Associated Colleges is one of the UK’s leading distance learning providers. Our online offering allows you to learn from anywhere. All you need is a computer and an internet connection.
The online learning portal will give you access to all your course materials, whenever you want to study them.
You will have the support of a dedicated tutor throughout the course, who will mark your assignments and answer any questions, should you get stuck.
By studying online, you can dictate the pace of your learning as there are no physical classes or timetables. That means you can work your learning around your existing commitments.
You can start studying towards your Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools right away. From the moment you enrol you will have full access to the course materials, so you can start your new career in no time.
Qualification: NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning (RQF)
On successful completion of our NCFE CACHE Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Teaching and Learning (RQF) you will receive a qualification listed on the RQF at level 3 (Qualification Reference Number: 603/2496/X). This course has also been assigned 53 credits.
Requirements for Entry
There is no experience or previous qualifications required for enrolment on this course. It is available to all students, of all academic backgrounds. However, please note that you must have a placement or be working in a suitable educational setting. The recommended number of placement, or work experience hours, differs if learners have completed the Certificate in Supporting Teaching & Learning qualification.
In order to successfully complete this qualification, every student must participate in real work experience. It is recommended that your placement, or job role, will allow between 50 hours (minimum) - 200 hours, (OR up to an additional 100 hours if the Certificate in Supporting Teaching & Learning has already been successfully completed). This placement can be either paid or voluntary, so long as it provides the necessary evidence that the student needs to pass the course and allows the learner to demonstrate their practice over a period of time. This qualification allows the placement to be in a school or a College but excludes:
- After school clubs
- Colleges
- Distance learning colleges
- Pre-schools
Along with the first set of course materials, you will also receive a comprehensive course guide. This will outline the placement requirements, how to set it up and the type of activities that will be assessed, including examples of the paperwork that you will submit to your assessor for evidence.
Please note: You must be at least 16 years of age to join this course.
Professional Membership
On completion of this course you will be eligible to join the following Professional Associations(s):
Stonebridge is a NCFE CACHE registered Centre
NCFE CACHE is the UK's longest established awarding body, recognised as a highly professional and responsive organisation, committed to maintaining excellent customer service and a friendly approach.
NCFE CACHE is one of the UK’s fastest growing national awarding bodies, designing and awarding qualifications that are nationally recognised to meet the needs of learners and employers.
Accreditation by NCFE CACHE is a guarantee of quality. It means that the college has been inspected and approved by an independent and experienced education professional and is quality audited biannually by NCFE CACHE. The centre delivering the programmes has been licensed by NCFE CACHE on the basis of its own quality systems. At the end of an accredited course, successful learners will also receive an NCFE CACHE Award certificate of achievement.
NCFE CACHE provide a wide range of qualifications accredited by Ofqual at different levels and in a variety of subject areas. NCFE CACHE also offer NVQs, Key Skills, Basic Skills and Entry Level qualifications.
Accreditation by NCFE CACHE is a guarantee of quality. It means that the college has been inspected and approved by an independent and experienced education professional and is quality audited biannually by NCFE CACHE . The centre delivering the programmes has been licensed by NCFE CACHE on the basis of its own quality systems. At the end of an accredited course, successful learners will also receive an NCFE CACHE Award certificate of achievement.
Our NCFE CACHE accredited courses are accredited to various levels (from level 1 – level 5). These courses lead to a nationally recognised NCFE CACHE certificate for successful learners. That means that the course is independently accredited at a level of learning equivalent to that level on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Last year over a quarter of a million learners from almost 1000 training organisations chose NCFE CACHE as the awarding body to help them move their careers forward.
If you would like to visit NCFE CACHE ’s website, please click here.
The units are broken down for your here so that you can see what your qualification will include. However, the assignments you complete have been designed so that you can complete multiple tasks together where possible and you will see a different number of assignments in your personal portfolio; you will still be completing the whole qualification.
Unit 1: Schools and colleges as organisations
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the structure of education from early years to postcompulsory 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
Unit 2: Support health and safety in a learning environment
On completion of this unit you will:
- 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
Unit 3: Understand how to safeguard children and young people
On completion of this unit you will:
- 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 well-being
Unit 4: Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults
On completion of this unit you will:
- 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
- Be able to develop professional relationships with children and young people
- Be able to communicate with children and young people
- Be able to develop professional relationships with adults
- Be able to support children and young people in developing relationships
- Be able to support inclusion and inclusive practices in work with children and young people
Unit 5: Understand how children and young people develop
On completion of this unit you will:
- 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
Unit 6: Support positive behaviour in children and young people
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand policies and procedures for promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour in a learning environment
- Be able to promote positive behaviour
- Be able to manage behaviour that challenges in a learning environment
Unit 7: Support children and young people during learning activities
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able to contribute to planning learning activities
- Be able to prepare for learning activities
- Be able to support learning activities
- Be able to observe and report on learner participation and progress
- Be able to contribute to the evaluation of learning activities
Unit 8: Support English and maths skills
On completion of this unit you will:
- Be able to identify learner needs for English and maths support
- Be able to provide English support to help learners access teaching and learning
- Be able to provide maths support to help learners access teaching and learning
Unit 9: Support the use of ICT in the learning environment
On completion of this unit you will:
- 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
- Be able to support the use of ICT for teaching and learning
Unit 10: Support assessment for learning
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the purpose and characteristics of assessment for learning
- Be able to use assessment strategies to promote learning
- Be able to support learners in reviewing their learning strategies and achievements
- Be able to contribute to reviewing assessment for learning
- Be able to maintain learner records
Unit 11: Engage in personal and professional development
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand what is required for competence in own work role
- Be able to reflect on organisational practice
- Be able to evaluate own performance
- Be able to agree a personal development plan
- Be able to use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development
Unit 12: Support children and young people’s speech, language and communication
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the importance of speech, language and communication for children and young people’s overall development
- Understand the role of support staff when supporting speech, language and communication development in the learning environment
- Be able to provide support for the speech, language and communication development of children and young people in the learning environment
- Be able to contribute to maintaining a positive environment that supports speech, language and communication
Unit 13: Understand how to support bilingual learners
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand how to contribute to the assessment of bilingual learners
- Understand how to support bilingual learners to access the curriculum
Unit 14: Understand how to support learning of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the principles of inclusive practice and the rights of disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs
- Understand how to obtain information about individual needs, capabilities and interests of disabled children and young people, and those with special educational needs
- Understand the special educational needs of children and young people with cognition and learning needs
- Understand the special educational needs of children and young people with emotional, behavioural and social development needs
- Understand the special educational needs of learners with sensory and/or physical needs
- Understand the kinds of strategies needed to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
Unit 15: Support children and young people during transitions
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the range and impact of transitions that children and young people may experience
- Be able to recognise and respond to transitions in children and young people’s lives
- Be able to support children and young people to manage transitions in their lives
Unit 16: Support the role of play, leisure and extra-curricular activities for children and young people
On completion of this unit you will:
- Understand the nature and importance of play and leisure
- Understand own role in relation to the requirements of play and leisure activities
- Understand how to balance risk and challenge with the benefits of the play and leisure opportunity
At the end of each unit, learners must complete an assessment paper which will be sent to their tutor for marking.
This method of continal assessment ensures your assessor can consistently support your progress and give you the assistance you need throughout your course.
What's Included
- All study materials
- Study Guide
- Full Tutor and Admin support
- The course fee includes the awarding body registration and certification fee (valued at up to £96.00).
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Alternatively, please complete the form below and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
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Alternatively, please complete the form below and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
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