CACHE Award in Supporting Teaching & Learning in Schools Level 3

This distance learning CACHE Award in Supporting Teaching & Learning in Schools Level 3 course is designed to provide you with a comprehensive level of knowledge to enable you to have a better opportunity for progress and achievement in the challenging field of Education.

Course description:

This Award is suitable for those not yet working in a Level 3 school role but could achieve at this Level. It is also suitable as initial training. The Level 3 Certificate is suitable for those working in unsupervised roles that support pupils learning.

This qualification will provide an understanding of the knowledge needed when working directly with children or young people in primary, secondary or special schools. They include learning about children and young people's development, safeguarding their welfare and communication.

Course Content:

• How learning materials, resources and equipment can help childrens learning
• How curriculum specific equipment and resources can help pupils learning
• The responsibilities of the different teams operating within the school
• The role and responsibilities of the Teaching Assistant in supporting colleagues
• Communicating with the senior managers
• Social and Emotional Development
• The five broad social and emotional aspects of learning
• The stages of social and emotional development
• Influences on child development
• Signs of emotional distress
• Effects of emotional distress
• Some causes of emotional distress in pupils
• How to support and encourage children to express emotions
• Encourage responsibility
• Self expression

• Appropriate methods which help pupils recognise and express emotions
• The Curriculum
• Circle time sessions
• Structure of circle time sessions
• Handling sensitive and controversial issues
• Observing and Recording
• Observe the performance of individual pupils or groups of pupils
• The purpose of observation
• Planning the observation
• Methods of observation
• Time sampling
• Event sampling
• Structured observation
• Naturalistic observation
• Participative observation
• Longitudinal observation

• Target child observation
• Recording observations
• Providing feedback
• Constructive feedback
• Confidentiality
• The school policies on Confidentiality
• Data Protection Act 1998
• Freedom of Information Act 2000
• Factors which influence teaching and learning
• Variables which affect a teaching situation
• The influence of other people
• The way the pupil learns
• The characteristics of the pupil
• Characteristics of effective learning activities
• Planning and evaluating learning activities

• The importance of feedback to pupils
• Ideas for giving students meaningful and timely feedback
• The importance of feedback on teaching
• The role of the Teaching Assistant when giving feedback
• Contributing to teachers and pupils records
• Accessing filing and storing records
• Contributing to the records
• Data Protection
• Assist in the Delivery of Learning Activities
• Support the teacher in delivering learning activities
• Use learning materials appropriately
• Helping pupils to follow instructions
• Motivating pupils
• The national picture
• Assessment, progression and qualifications
• Types of schools

• Teachers
• The School Organisation Policies and Procedures
• The Governing body and Academies
• Subject leaders
• Staff guidance policies and procedures
• The purpose of the school development plan and its relevance to the teaching Assistants role
• Organising and maintaining the classroom environment
• Goals of a quality learning environment
• Effective classroom organisation and maintenance
• Prepare and maintain the learning environment
• Prepare the learning resources
• Prepare learning materials for use
• Monitor and maintain the learning environment and resources
• Use learning materials, resources and equipment effectively, appropriately and safely
• Effective use of equipment, resources and materials
• Appropriate use of equipment, resources and materials

• Safe use of materials, resources and equipment
• Use of chemicals and other substances hazardous to health
• The content of staff guidance policies and procedures
• General school policies and procedures
• Legal Requirements
• The legal responsibilities of a school relating to the duty of care and the welfare of children
• Legal responsibilities of those responsible for education policy and practice in England, Wales or Northern Ireland
• Growth and Development - including physical, intellectual, language, emotional and social
• Physical development
• Intellectual development
• Language development
• Emotional development
• Social development
• Factors which affect Growth and Development
• Supporting the Development of Reading Skills
• National and community factors
• Communication and interaction
• The cues and strategies used by learners as they develop reading skills
• Helping children develop decoding strategies
• The main methods for teaching reading skills
• The school policy and procedures relating to the development of learners reading skills
• Supporting the Development of Writing Skills
• Progression in the skills and knowledge is summarised in the eight level scales.
• Learning objectives for writing
• The stages of speaking and listening skills development
• Encourage learners to use speaking and listening skills correctly
• Developing effective listening skills
• Developing general speaking skills
• Non-standard English and the importance of respecting its use
• Why it is important to respect the use of non-standard English
• The school policy for speaking and listening
• Communication
• Immediate care for accidents and ailments
• Procedures and Policy
• Reporting accidents
• Health, Hygiene and Child Protection
• Assist pupils in meeting their health and hygiene needs
• Helping children to protect themselves against abuse
• Procedures to follow in cases of child abuse
• Caring for children who have suffered abuse
• The School policy regarding suspicion of or disclosure of child abuse
• Reporting concerns
• Publication of serious case review overview reports
• Recognition of bullying
• Helping and supporting bullies and their victims
• Self Harming
• Responding to concerns that a colleague has been failing to comply with safeguarding procedures
• Why practitioners are vulnerable against allegations
• Provide support and guidance for pupils in the correct and safe use of ICT equipment
• Encouraging independent learning
• The role of the Teaching Assistant

Qualification Information:

To gain the CACHE Level 3 Award in Supporting Teaching & Learning in Schools you will need to pass all four units to achieve the 12 credits necessary.

A registration fee of £52.00 is due within four weeks of enrolment if you wish to receive your CACHE certificate on successful completion of your course.

Method of study:

Online Version

Our online A-Level courses are fully digitised versions of the paper-courses, so you can study on any PC or smart device when connected to the internet.

As with the paper course, your online learning programme is completely flexible, so you can study at a pace that suits you.

All of our online course content is broken down into bite size chunks to make your learning more manageable and effective.

Method of assessment:

The course contains a number of assignments which your tutor will mark and give you valuable feedback on. We call these Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs). You need only send the TMAs to your tutor for comment, not the self-assessment exercises which are also part of the course to help you gauge your progress.

Course duration:

This course can be taken over a 12 month period but you can complete it as fast or as slowly as you wish.

Tutor support:

You will have access to a tutor via email who will mark your work, guide you through the course and assist you with any problems you may have. In addition you will be supplied with a comprehensive Study Guide which will help you through the study and assessment process.

Currently there are no Q&As for this course. Be the first to ask a question.