The Units you’ll cover on this course are:
Unit 1: Schools and colleges as organisations
Prepare yourself for work in a learning environment. Gain knowledge of the structures of education; how schools are organised; school ethos, mission, aims and values; legislative and policy frameworks, as well as the wider context in which schools operate.
Unit 2: Support health and safety in a learning environment
Develop the skills to support children and young people’s health and safety in a learning environment. You’ll learn to recognise, manage and assess risks to health, safety and security; uncover responses to accidents, incidents, and emergencies; and find out how to administer medication.
Unit 3: Understand how to safeguard children and young people
Acquire an understanding of essential procedures necessary to safeguard children and young adults. You’ll learn about affiliating with organisations, responding to evidence regarding abuse or harm, and steps to ensure the well-being of children and young adults. The unit contains material on e-safety.
Unit 4: Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults
Identify the knowledge and competence needed to effectively communicate and develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults.
Unit 5: Understand how children and young people develop
Discover how children and young people develop from birth to 19 years, including key underpinning theoretical perspectives. You’ll gain insight into varying factors that influence development, as well as what actions to take should any differences in development occur.
Unit 6: Support positive behaviour in children and young people
Develop the skills to support positive behaviour in children and young people. You’ll look at policies and procedures, learn how to promote positive behaviour and manage challenging behaviour of learners.
Unit 7: Support children and young people during learning activities
Recognise the skills needed to support all learning activities, including planning, preparation, delivery, assessment and the review cycle.
Unit 8: Support English and math skills
Gain the ability to provide English and maths support across teaching and learning. You’ll learn a range of strategies that develop a learner’s confidence to read, write, communicate and solve mathematical problems.
Unit 9: Support the use of ICT in the learning environment
Develop the capacity to offer ICT support across all teaching and learning environments. You’ll become familiar with policies and procedures, resource preparation, as well as the skills needed to promote learning and support learners to review their achievements.
Unit 10: Support assessment for learning
Attain the knowledge to support assessment learning. You’ll gain awareness for assessment strategies to promote learning and support learners to review their learning strategies and achievements. You’ll also recognise the importance of working with teachers to review assessments for learning processes and outcomes.
Unit 11: Engage in personal and professional development
This unit is vital to people working with children or young people in a range of learning environments. You’ll consider your own personal development, reflective practice and performance evaluation.
Students are required to compile a portfolio of evidence which demonstrates their learning against each of the assessment criteria of the course. Portfolios are assessed by a tutor. Some portfolio evidence will need to be witnessed by a competent person in the workplace hence students must be employed in a school or arrange and complete a work experience placement. To achieve the qualification candidates must achieve 32 credits by completing all 11 mandatory units. To successfully complete a unit, each candidate has to provide evidence satisfying all the performance and knowledge standards in that unit.
Work Placement
A voluntary or paid work placement of up to 100 hours is required to complete this course. This involves building a portfolio in a Teaching environment. If that’s not a possibility for you right now, we offer a variant of this course which doesn’t require a practical assessment, Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools L3 Award.
In 2015, NCFE acquired CACHE. As of September 2017, our CACHE courses will now be known as NCFE CACHE, and you will receive your certificate from both awarding bodies.
This qualification comes with NCFE CACHE Level 3 certification. NCFE CACHE have been developing courses in the childcare, education and healthcare sectors since 1945 and are one of the most reputable awarding bodies for qualifications in the UK and overseas. Practitioners working in these areas are much more employable having gained NCFE CACHE certification and many employers specifically ask for their qualifications when taking on members of staff.
You have up to a year to complete this course, we suggest a number of study hours of up to 200 hours, which is around 30 minutes per day for 12 months. This is usually ample time for learners, even with full-time jobs and other commitments. Don’t worry if you go over the year though, we can organise an extension to your course for a small fee, which also extends your tutor support.
Don’t forget, you need to allocate hours for your placement, too!
Throughout this course, you may be expected to complete assignments, essays, research projects, presentations, video/audio recordings, and practical learning sessions to meet the requirements of your course. This information will be included in your study pack detailing exactly what you need to do to accomplish your goals as a student.
There will be a requirement for you to have a class teacher/mentor/supervisor who will also add evidence of your competence to your portfolio. It’s important that you provide the contact details of these individuals and the schools that they work at to your tutor.
Q: Tell me about my Tutor Support?
You will have access to your personal tutor, via email and telephone, who will mark your assignments, guide you through your course and provide feedback. In addition, you will be supplied with a comprehensive Study Guide which will help you through the study and assessment process. This is especially useful if you haven’t studied for a while.
Q: What skills are needed to enrol onto this course?
You don’t need any prior skills in the subject area to start this course. Our Level 3 Certificate has been perfectly designed to enable you to enrol straight onto this course rather than start at Level 2.
Q: What is included in the cost of my course?
We provide all the specially written learning materials you require to study this course at home. The course fee also includes tutor support for up to 12 months.
Q: Are there any additional costs?
You will receive everything you need to complete this course within the study pack we send to you.
If a class teacher is unable to observe and provide supporting evidence for you, we can provide an assessor to come out to assess you. Fees to be discuss if you require us to send you an assessor to observe you.
Q: Is there a required reading list?
No, all of the study materials are supplied within your learning pack.
Q: Do I have to sit an exam?
No, this course is assessed by coursework alone.
Q: What if I live outside the UK?
That’s fine, this course can be studied anywhere as long as you you meet all the requirements of the above question regarding Tutor Support.
Q: What do I do if I still have questions?
Please check our FAQs section or Contact Us, we are happy to answer any questions you have.
