NCFE CACHE Level 3 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning

• Learn the structure of education from early years to post-compulsory education
• Understand how schools and colleges are organised regarding roles and responsibilities
• Know the importance of teamwork in schools and colleges
• Understand the ethos, mission, aims and values of education
• Learn the importance of policies and procedures in education

• Understand how to provide environments that support children and young people's health and safety
• Learn how to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a learning environment or during off-site visits
• Know 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
• Know the responsibilities of your own role is assisting the administration of medication

• Know the 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
• Learn the importance of ensuring the safety and protection of children and young people in the learning environment
• Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
• Learn how to support wellbeing when working with children and young people

• 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

• Understand the 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

• Learn the policies and procedures for promoting the positive behaviour of children and young people
• Know how to promote positive behaviour
• Be able to control and manage challenging behaviour in a learning environment

• Be able to participate in planning within a learning environment
• Know how to prepare for learning activities
• Understand how to support learning activities
• Be able to observe and feedback on participation and progress
• Know how to contribute to evaluating learning activities

• Understand the different learner needs for English and Maths support
• Know how to provide English support to provide access for teaching and learning
• Know how to provide Maths support to provide access for teaching and learning

• Know the policies and procedures for using ICT within teaching and learning
• Understand the preparation of ICT resources within teaching and learning
• Be able to support the use of ICT within teaching and learning

• Know the purpose and characteristics of assessment for learning
• Be able to use assessment strategies to promote learning
• Learn how to support learners in reviewing strategies and achievements in their learning

• Know what is required to effectively complete your own role
• Be able to reflect on practice within an organisation
• Learn how to evaluate own performance

All units are internally assessed. Assessment enables the learner’s workplace practice to provide evidence for individual units as well as the whole qualification. This course requires an assessment of your practical skills within your working environment. It is essential that you secure a placement that can provide you with a suitably qualified teacher and workplace assessor who can observe you, comment on your skills and write a report to meet the assessment requirements. This direct observation will be used as evidence towards your qualification. Methods of assessment could include:

• Direct observation of practice
• Witness evidence when directed by the sector skills assessment strategy
• Professional discussion
• Reflection on own practice in real work situations
• Written assignments

This course is assessed by a series of assignments which are submitted to your tutor for marking and a range of evidence types gained from a work placement. No external examination is required.

This course will take approximately 350 hours to complete. During this course, you will also need to complete a recommended 100 placement hours. You will receive a full year to complete the course, which is a lot more time than you will need. This allows you to work at your own pace, without the pressure of tight deadlines.

You will study this course by distance learning, which will enable you to take control of your studies. You can study at your own pace from a place that suits you. All your learning materials will be posted or emailed to you online, depending on the learning method you choose. You will also receive our tutor support by email, so help is only ever a click away.

Upon successful completion of the course, you will achieve an NCFE CACHE Level 3 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning. A certificate will be provided to you as recognition of your achievement.

With this course, you can achieve 16 UCAS points based on the grade you achieve. You can find out more about UCAS points here.

NCFE is a leading provider of vocational and technical courses as well as an educational charity. With over 170 years of experience in providing an outstanding education experience, NCFE work with industry experts to create smarter solutions to the greatest learning needs.

They are one of the largest technical and vocational awarding bodies in the United Kingdom and their qualifications are awarded to thousands of people each year.

In 2015, CACHE (The Council for Awards in Care, Health, and Education) became a part of NCFE.

Once you have enrolled on your NCFE CACHE course, you will have access to the NCFE CACHE Alumni membership for two years. NCFE CACHE Alumni is a professional membership network for those who work in the care, health, and education industries, providing valuable resources and advice for your studies when working towards/with a NCFE CACHE qualification.

Once you have successfully completed this course, you can apply for a position as a teaching assistant, learning support assistant, or special educational needs assistant. Alternatively, you can also progress your studies further and complete the next stage in your level 3 nested qualification in supporting teaching and learning.