Teaching in a Specialist Area

Overview

Framework:
RQF
Level:
Level 4
Unit No:
J/505/1096
Credits:
15
Guided learning hours:
50 hours

Assessment Guidance

None

Unit Learning Outcomes

1

Understand the aims and philosophy of education and training in a specialist area.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1
    Explain key aims of education and training in own specialist area.
  • 1.2
    Analyse philosophical issues relating to education and training in own specialist area.
2

Understand the aims and structure of key qualifications and learning programmes available to learners in a specialist area.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1
    Describe the aims and structure of key qualifications in own specialist area.
  • 2.2
    Describe the aims and structure of learning programmes in own specialist area.
  • 2.3
    Explain how own approach to planning and preparation for the delivery of a learning programme in own specialist area enables its aims to be met.
3

Understand principles of inclusive teaching and learning and key curriculum issues in a specialist area.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1
    Analyse the inclusiveness of own approach to the planning and preparation of a learning programme in own specialist area.
  • 3.2
    Explain how own approach to the planning and preparation of a learning programme in own specialist area takes account of key curriculum issues, including the role of new and emerging technologies.
4

Understand how to use resources for inclusive teaching and learning in a specialist area.

Assessment Criteria

  • 4.1
    Analyse ways in which teaching and learning resources, including new and emerging technologies, meet the individual needs of learners in own specialist area.
  • 4.2
    Analyse the inclusiveness of own use of teaching and learning resources in a specialist area.
5

Be able to work with others within a specialist area to develop own practice.

Assessment Criteria

  • 5.1
    Liaise with others within a specialist area to develop own practice.
  • 5.2
    Review the impact of liaison with other teachers and trainers within own specialist area on own practice.
6

Be able to evaluate, improve and update own knowledge and skills in a specialist area.

Assessment Criteria

  • 6.1
    Review the effectiveness of own knowledge and skills in a specialist area.
  • 6.2
    Identify own strengths and areas for improvement in relation to practice in a specialist area.
  • 6.3
    Identify opportunities to improve and update own knowledge and skills in a specialist area.