This unit aims to prepare the learner for working in a learning environment.
The unit includes the following topics:
- The structure of education from early years to post-compulsory education.
- How schools and colleges are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities.
- Teamwork in schools and colleges.
- Educational ethos, mission, aims and values.
This unit provides the knowledge and understanding required to support children and young people’s health and safety in a learning environment.
The unit includes the following topics:
- Plan and provide environments that support children and young people’s health and safety.
- Recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a learning environment or during off-site visits.
- Support children and young people to assess and manage risk for themselves.
- Appropriate responses to accidents, incidents, emergencies and illness in the learning environment and during off-site visits.
- Own role in assisting in the administration of medication.
This unit provides the knowledge and understanding required to support the safeguarding of children and young people.
The unit includes the following topics:
- Legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people.
- How to work in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people.
- The need to ensure children and young people’s safety and protection in the learning environment.
- How to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed.
- How to work with children and young people to support their well-being.
This unit provides the knowledge and understanding which underpins effective communication and professional relationships with children, young people and adults. It covers the competence required to develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults.
The unit includes the following topics:
- The principles of developing positive relationships with children, young people and adults.
- Legislation, policies and procedures for confidentiality and sharing information, including data protection.
- Develop professional relationships with children and young people.
- Communicate with children and young people.
- Develop professional relationships with adults.
- Support children and young people in developing relationship.
- Support inclusion and inclusive practices in work with children and young people.
This unit provides knowledge and understanding of how children and young people from birth to 19 years develop, including underpinning theoretical perspectives. It also includes actions taken when differences in development are identified.
The unit includes the following topics:
- The expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to 19 years.
- The factors that influence children and young people’s development and how these affect practice.
- Monitor children and young people’s development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern.
This unit provides the knowledge, understanding and skills required to support children and young people’s positive behaviour. It requires demonstration of competence in promoting positive behaviour and managing behaviour that challenges.
The unit includes the following topics:
- Policies and procedures for promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour in a learning environment.
- Promote positive behaviour.
- Manage behaviour that challenges in a learning environment.
This unit provides the knowledge, understanding and skills to support learning activities in different learning environments. It requires competence in supporting the planning, delivery, assessment and review cycle.
The unit includes the following topics:
- Contribute to planning learning activities.
- Prepare for learning activities.
- Support learning activities.
- Observe and report on learner participation and progress.
- Contribute to the evaluation of learning activities.
This unit provides the knowledge, understanding and skills to provide English and Maths support across teaching and learning.
The unit includes the following topics:
- Identify learner needs for English and maths support.
- Provide English support to help learners access teaching and learning.
- Provide maths support to help learners access teaching and learning.
This unit provides the knowledge, understanding and skills to provide ICT support across teaching and learning. It requires knowledge of policies and procedures for the use of ICT in the learning environment and the demonstration of competence in using ICT to promote learning and support learners to review their achievements.
The unit includes the following topics:
- Policy and procedures for the use of ICT for teaching and learning.
- Prepare ICT resources for use in teaching and learning.
- Support the use of ICT for teaching and learning.
This unit provides the knowledge, understanding and skills to support assessment for learning. It requires demonstration of competence in using assessment strategies to promote learning, supporting learners to review their learning strategies and achievements, and working with the teacher to review assessment for learning processes and outcomes.
The unit includes the following topics:
- Purpose and characteristics of assessment for learning.
- Use assessment strategies to promote learning.
- Support learners in reviewing their learning strategies and achievements.
- Contribute to reviewing assessment for learning.
- Maintain learner records.
This unit is aimed at those who work with children and young people in a wide range of learning environments. The unit considers personal development and reflective practice, which are both fundamental to this role.
The unit includes the following topics:
- What is required for competence in own work role.
- Reflect on organisational practice.
- Evaluate own performance.
- Agree a personal development plan.
- Use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development.
This unit aims to provide a basis for understanding the importance of speech, language and communication for children and young people’s overall development and interaction with others. It also explores ways to support children and young people in the development of their speech, language and communication skills.
The unit includes the following topics:
- The importance of speech, language and communication for children and young people’s overall development.
- The role of support staff when supporting speech, language and communication development in the learning environment.
- Provide support for the speech, language and communication development of children and young people in the learning environment.
- Contribute to maintaining a positive environment that supports speech, language and communication.
This unit provides the knowledge and understanding to support bilingual learners in a learning environment.
The unit includes the following topics:
- Contribute to the assessment of bilingual learners.
- Support bilingual learners to access the curriculum.
This unit provides the knowledge and understanding to provide support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in the learning environment.
The unit includes the following topics:
- The principles of inclusive practice and the rights of disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs.
- Obtain information about individual needs, capabilities and interests of disabled children and young people, and those with special educational needs.
- Special educational needs of children and young people with cognition and learning needs.
- Special educational needs of children and young people with emotional, behavioural and social development needs.
- Special educational needs of learners with sensory and/or physical needs.
- The kinds of strategies needed to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
The unit includes the following topics:
This unit provides the knowledge and understanding required to support children and young people’s play and leisure. It requires knowledge of play and leisure activities and helping children and young people to manage risk and challenge. This unit also explores enrichment through an extra-curricular activity such as a study club, recreational activity, sports team or performing arts activity.
The unit includes the following topics:
- The nature and importance of play and leisure.
- Own role in relation to the requirements of play and leisure activities.
- Balance risk and challenge with the benefits of the play and leisure opportunity.
