Course Curriculum
Focus Awards Level 4 Certificate for Higher Level Teaching Assistant (RQF) course comprises seven mandatory units. These are as follows:
- Awareness of special educational needs
- Child development and welfare
- Curriculum planning, delivery and assessment
- Developing skills to promote positive working relationships
- Promoting positive behaviour in children and young people
- Providing support for individual learners and small groups
- Understand the Higher Level Teaching Assistant role
****Qualification Curriculum****
**Focus Awards Level 4 Certificate for Higher Level Teaching Assistant (RQF)**
- Unit 1: Understand the Higher Level Teaching Assistant role
- Unit 2: Child development and welfare
- Unit 3: Awareness of special educational needs
- Unit 4: Promoting Positive Behaviour in Children and Young People
- Unit 5: Providing support for individual learners and small groups
- Unit 6: Developing skills to promote positive working relationships
- Unit 7: Curriculum planning, delivery and assessment
Learning Outcomes
- Inclusive Teaching and Learning
- Teaching, Learning and Assessment Approaches
- Providing opportunities for English, Maths, ICT and Wider Skills
- Theories of Learning
- Communication
- Induction, Icebreakers and Ground Rules
- Creating a Scheme of Work
- Devising an Inclusive Teaching and Learning Plan (Session Plan)
- Understand the Higher Level Teaching Assistant role
- Self-Evaluation and Continuing Professional Development
Learning Duration
- Focus Awards Level 4 Certificate for Higher Level Teaching Assistant (RQF) Total Qualification Time
It is an estimate of the total amount of time anticipated that a learner would spend to demonstrate mastery of all learning outcomes to achieve the award of the qualification. The whole qualification time is defined as GLH and an estimate of the time a learner will devote to preparation, study, and assessment. It does not underlie supervision by a lecturer, supervisor, or tutor. In the case of qualification, the credit value is defined by TQT, and one credit corresponds to ten hours of learning. Guided Learning Hours for this qualification is 87.
Total Qualification Time for this qualification is 380 hours.
The total credit value for this qualification is 36
- Focus Awards Level 4 Certificate for Higher Level Teaching Assistant (RQF) Guided Learning Hours
These hours comprise all real-time contact time, hours of lectures or tutorials or supervision of a learner, tutor, trainer or other education providers.
Progression
- Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training
- Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training
- Level 3 Award in Understanding the Principles and Practices of Assessment
- Level 3 Award in Assessing Competence in the Work Environment
- Level 3 Award in Assessing Vocational Related Achievement
- Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement
- Level 4 Award in Understanding the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
- Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
- Level 4 Certificate in Leading the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
- Level 4 Award in Learning and Development
- Level 4 Diploma in Learning and Development
Assessment
The qualification assessments will be taken through tutor-marked assignments. Upon completing each unit, the learner must attempt a series of questions with comprehensive answers, which will be marked by the tutor. The tutor-marked tasks are required to be assessed by a professional as well.
Thereupon, to ensure all the course assignments have met the standards properly by both the learners and assessors, the tasks are subjected to internal and external moderation.
NB: Learners are required to be working within a school as a teaching assistant. The work setting can either be a primary, secondary or special school with pupils aged 5+ and studying Key Stage 1 or above.
Method of Assessment:
- Unit 1: In Unit 1, you need to complete a variety of writing assignments
- Unit 2: In Unit 2, there should be an assessment taken in the workplace, primarily evaluating learners’ work, professional discussions with audio-video evidence
- Unit 3: In Unit 3, you will be demonstrated through your delivered work items and
- audio-video evidence after evaluating learners in a training context.
Focus Awards Level 4 Certificate for Higher Level Teaching Assistant (RQF) Video Assessment
You have to plan many things, such as observation, questioning/ professional discussion, and inspection of supporting work product evidence.
Detailed assignment instructions will be made available to you in the “Guidance for Achieving the Unit” section of your learning portal with a careful and clear explanation.
You have to submit all your assignments via the online portal
Certification
Successful candidates will be awarded a Focus Awards Level 4 Certificate for Higher Level Teaching Assistant (RQF) from Focus Awards Limited.
