This unit is underpinned by the overarching professional standards for teachers, tutors and trainers in the lifelong learning sector.
Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS)
The unit aims to develop learners’ knowledge and skills in relation to teaching in a specialist area. The specialist area may be a vocational or subject area. It includes consideration of the aims and philosophy of education and training in a specialist area and the aims and structure of key qualifications and learning programmes qualifications available to learners. It also includes curriculum issues, inclusive teaching and learning, and evaluating and improving own practice in a specialist area.
The learner will: 1. understand the aims and philosophy of education and training in a specialist area.
The learner can: 1.1 explain key aims of education and training in own specialist area
1.2 analyse philosophical issues relating to education and training in own specialist area.
The learner will: 2. understand the aims and structure of key qualifications and learning programmes available to learners in a specialist area.
The learner can: 2.1 describe the aims and structure of key qualifications in own specialist area
2.2 describe the aims and structure of learning programmes in own specialist area
2.3 explain how own approach to planning and preparation for the delivery of a learning programme in own specialist area enables its aims to be met.
The learner will: 3. understand principles of inclusive teaching
The learner can: 3.1 analyse the inclusiveness of own approach to the planning and preparation of a learning programme in own specialist area
3.2 explain how own approach to the planning and preparation of a learning programme in own specialist area takes account of key curriculum issues, including the role of new and emerging technologies.
The learner will: 4. understand how to use resources for inclusive teaching and learning in a specialist area.
The learner can: 4.1 analyse ways in which teaching and learning resources, including new and emerging technologies, meet the individual needs of learners in own specialist area
4.2 analyse the inclusiveness of own use of teaching and learning resources in a specialist area.
The learner will: 5. be able to work with others within a specialist area to develop own practice.
The learner can: 5.1 liaise with others within a specialist area to develop own practice
5.2 review the impact of liaison with other teachers and trainers within own specialist area on own practice.
The learner will: 6. be able to evaluate, improve and update own knowledge and skills in a specialist area.
The learner can: 6.1 review the effectiveness of own knowledge and skills in a specialist area
6.2 identify own strengths and areas for improvement in relation to practice in a specialist area
6.3 identify opportunities to improve and update own knowledge and skills in a specialist area.
