Description
The TQUK Level 3 Diploma in Specialist Support for Teaching & Learning in Schools (RQF) Qualification is to enable you to gain a recognised (RQF) qualification as a Teaching Assistant.
This qualification will enable you to apply for teaching assistant positions within any school across the UK. It is fully Regulated by OFQUAL, and OFSTED approved.
Who is this qualification for?
The TQUK Level 3 Diploma in Specialist Support for Teaching & Learning in Schools (RQF) Qualification course is for persons looking to become a qualified Teaching Assistants to then go on and secure a job in either a Primary or Secondary school.
OFQUAL Qualification Details
Qualification reference number – 601/4423/3
Credit Value – 44
Study time – 232 GLH
OFQUAL REGULATED | ACCEPTED IN ALL UK SCHOOLS | OFSTED APPROVED
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Certification Fee
The Certification fee for this qualification is £95.00 of which is only payable upon successful completion.
Units Covered
Unit 1 – Promote children and young people’s positive behaviour.
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand policies and procedures for promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour.
- Be able to promote positive behaviour.
- Be able to manage inappropriate behaviour.
- Be able to respond to challenging behaviour.
- Be able to contribute to reviews of behaviour and behaviour policies.
Unit 2 – Support Children and Young People’s Health and Safety
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand how to plan and provide environments and services that support children and young people’s health and safety.
- Be able to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a work setting or 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 work settings and off-site visits.
Unit 3 – Communication and professional relationships with children, young people, and adults
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the principles of developing positive relationships with children, young people, and adults.
- Understand how to communicate with children, young people, and adults.
- Understand legislation, policies and procedures for confidentiality and sharing information, including data protection.
Unit 4 – Develop professional relationships with children, young people, and adults.
Learner Outcomes:
- 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 comply with policies and procedures for confidentiality, sharing information and data protection.
Unit 5 – Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion in work with children and young people.
Learner Outcomes:
- Be able to promote equality and diversity in work with children and young people.
- Understand the impact of prejudice and discrimination on children and young people.
- Be able to support inclusion and inclusive practices in work with children and young people.
Unit 6 – Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the main legislation, Guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people.
- Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people.
- Understand the importance of ensuring children and young people’s safety and protection in the work setting.
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed.
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been bullied.
- Understand how to work with children and young people to support their safety and wellbeing.
- Understand the importance of e- safety for children and young people.
Unit 7 – Support Learning Activities
Learner Outcomes:
- 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.
- Be able to evaluate own practice in relation to supporting literacy, numeracy, and ICT.
Unit 8 – Schools as organisations
Learner Outcomes:
- Know the structure of education from early years to post-compulsory education.
- Understand how schools are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities.
- Understand school ethos, mission, aims and values.
- Know about the legislation affecting schools.
Unit 9 – Support assessment for learning
Learner Outcomes:
- 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.
Unit 10 – Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings.
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand what is required for competence in own work role.
- Be able to reflect on 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 11 – Understand Child and Young Person Development
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth – 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.
- Understand the importance of early intervention to support the speech, language and communication needs of children and young people.
- Understand the potential effects of transitions on children and young people’s development
Unit 12 – Support Children and young people to achieve their education potential
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the principles, values and current legislation that supports work to help children and young people achieve their educational potential
- Be able to support children and young people to identify and articulate their learning needs, set goals and plan actions
- Be able to support children and young people to work towards their educational goals
- Be able to review educational achievements with children and young people.
Unit 13 – Support children and young people to make positive changes in their lives.
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand how to support children and young people to make positive changes in their lives.
- Be able to support children and young people to make positive changes in their lives.
- Be able to review support to children and young people to make positive changes in their lives.
Unit 14 – Facilitate the learning and development of children and young people through mentoring.
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand how to facilitate the learning and development needs of children and young people through mentoring.
- Be able to support children and young people to address their individual learning and development needs.
- Be able to promote the wellbeing, resilience and achievement of individual children and young people through mentoring.
- Be able to review the effectiveness of the mentoring process.
Assessments
Assessments are a great way of checking your progress allowing you to apply your learning to real-world situations. Through the TQUK Level 3 Diploma in Specialist Support for Teaching & Learning in Schools (RQF) Qualification, you will be assessed by a series of written assignments and classroom observations, which are submitted to and marked by your personal 1-2-1 tutor.
All assignments are set by TQUK. Upon verification of the activities, exercises and assignments, a certificate of achievement will be awarded by TQUK, as confirmation that your written work has met all the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the course.
Please Note: a work placement of at least 50 hours is required to complete this option. This workplace MUST be in a school setting. This can either be a primary, secondary, or special school, however you MUST also ensure that the pupils you work with are aged 5+ and are studying at Key Stage 1 or above.
As part of this work placement, you must first ensure that a member of staff with occupational competence is able to provide supervision and sign the witness testimonies, to prove you have achieved the work-based learning outcomes of this course.
Please note: There is no examination required for this course.
What’s included.
You will have access to a personal 1-2-1 Tutor, via email, who will mark your work and guide you through the course to help you prepare for your assignments. You will be provided with all course materials to complete your TQUK Level 3 Diploma in Specialist Support for Teaching & Learning in Schools (RQF) Qualification along with full Tutor support. The materials provided will enable you to complete your qualification in full.
Study Time
The guided study hours OF 232 to complete your TQUK Level 3 Diploma in Specialist Support for Teaching & Learning in Schools (RQF) Qualification are an approximate figure and are dependent upon how much time you can dedicate to your studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. You should allow enough time to complete assignments/ question papers to ensure satisfactory outcomes are met.
The approximate amount of time required to complete the TQUK Level 3 Diploma in Specialist Support for Teaching & Learning in Schools (RQF) Qualification is: 232 hours.
You will have an initial 12 months in which to complete this qualification.
Entry Requirements
You must:
- Have reading and writing skills adequate to meet the requirements of the qualification and be able to complete the written assessments to a good standard.
- Be working in an appropriate school for a minimum of 12 hours per week or 50 hours over the duration of the qualification. This can include voluntary or unpaid work.
- Have a colleague who is willing to work in the capacity of an Expert Witness for you throughout the duration of the qualification, to complete the Observations and Expert Witness Testimonies. Your Expert Witness must hold either a Specialist HLTA qualification at Level 4, or a Teaching Qualification at a minimum of Level 4.
- Must have grade C and above in both English and Maths
The Role of a Teaching Assistant
As a Teaching Assistant you are responsible for carrying out practical and administrative tasks, and you are required to work under the direction of the class teacher in the supervision and support of pupils’ learning. In doing this you are helping to make more time available for the Teacher to teach daily.
Teaching Assistants work under the direction and supervision of Teachers to help promote effective learning and teaching usually for children that may encounter learning difficulties. They carry out tasks delegated to them by the Teacher to work with children on both a 1-2-1 basis and taking small groups to support learning.
The Teaching Assistant will be responsible for contributing to the following areas:
- supporting the Teacher
- supporting the pupil
- supporting the curriculum
- supporting the school