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Awarding Body: Focus Awards
Focus Awards is an Ofqual regulated Awarding Organisation. This guarantees that all of their qualifications confirm to a high standard.
The Level 2 Certificate in Supporting Teaching & Learning in Schools (RQF) is a UK OFQUAL accredited 100% online, competency-based Teaching Assistant (TA) qualification. This qualification is suitable for those interested in working as a teaching assistant or learning support assistant. This qualification provides the knowledge and understanding needed to work directly with young people or children to support the assessment for learning, developing relationships, promoting equality and diversity, and understanding how to safeguard children and young people’s well-being
This Level 2 Certificate is for those who wish to become a teaching assistant or those working in primary, secondary or special schools as Teaching Assistants, Learning Support Assistants, SEN Teaching Assistants, or Early Years Setting, etc.
This Level 2 Teaching Assistant qualification is designed to be completed online at your own pace that suits you the best. This Level 2 course can take as little as 4 weeks or up to 9 months for you to become a qualified teaching assistant. You have a great opportunity of fast-track completion earlier at the pace and time of your choice. The qualification is delivered through our virtual learning environment (VLE) with compete online tutor support to facilitate you to achieve your success rate accordingly.
All units within this OFQUAL regulated Level 2 qualification are internally assessed by our qualified assessors and externally verified by the awarding organisation. The assessment takes the form of written assignment, detailed guidance for which will be provided by the tutor, and witness testimony signed by your supervisor at your work place. You will receive tutor support once you are enrolled on our online VLE to assist you in reaching your goals.
The Level 2 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools helps learners enhance their career profiles. Successful completion of this 100% accredited online course enables learners to proceed to the following qualifications:
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There are no specific entry requirements for this qualification. However, the learners must be 16 years or above to get themselves enrolled in this course.
As this is a competence-based qualification, learners are required to be employed or hold a placement within an appropriate school environment, so they can demonstrate their skills and progression. You must be supervised by a qualified teacher willing to attest to a range of activities undertaken and to oversee your practical evidence gathering.
All units in the course will be assessed through a series of written assignments submitted to and marked by your course tutor. For some units, you must provide witness testimony to meet the assessment criteria requirement.
All prices include course fee, awarding body charges, OfQual approved certification, postage of certificate. The final certification you get is exactly the same, regardless of what route you pick. There are no strict deadlines for submission of individual coursework, allowing you room and flexibility to pace your studies; the only deadline is the overall course duration based on the option that you have selected above.
You can have instant access to the course; once you enrol on the course, you can start studying immediately.
Our courses are designed to provide a dedicated online tutor support to learners throughout the course for ongoing assistance.
Flexible payment plans to suit your budget; pay fee in easy monthly instalments.
You will receive your accredited certificate and transcript at no additional cost from our approved awarding body.
This course is essentially for those learners who either are, or wish to undertake a job as a teaching assistant, classroom assistant or learning support assistant within a school.
This course requires 30 credits for completion. Credits from the Award can be carried(if the learner already has this qualification)over and counted towards the certificate.
Our courses are OFQUAL approved as we work with an approved awarding organisation called “Focus Awards”. This is a well-respected awarding organisation for education and training courses. This is the confirmation of their status-https://register.ofqual.gov.uk/Detail/Index/1391?category=organisations&query=focus%20awards.
This course is for anyone who is looking to start a career as:
This course will open doors to your new career as a teaching assistant working with children in a school environment.
The learners are required to have a work placement in a school environment and must be supervised by a qualified teacher.
You will receive your course material right after getting enrolled in this course at our online Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
There is no time frame to complete the course. Learners can complete it within 4 weeks (fast track), or up to 9 months.
Have a quick look at the following chart for TA courses to know which course suits you the best:
Witness testimonies are classed as “supporting” evidence and provide additional information in the form of a statement of authentication from an occupationally competent individual who verifies all relevant details of a learner’s workplace activities and validates that the learner can conduct a skill or task. In some instances, the course requires the learner to demonstrate certain skills such as “Positive working relationships” or “motivate and support children and young people’s positive behaviour”, all of which are very difficult to prove using documentary evidence alone. Hence, an expert witness is tasked with providing a written record of learner’s performance at the workplace, precisely describing the activity undertaken against targeted assessment criteria confirming if these have been followed in the work setting. Witness testimonies are compulsory in certain units and this will be clearly stated in the relevant Assignment Guide. Moreover, it is to be noted that you will need to write a reflective account as well along with providing the witness testimony.
A reflective account is the supporting written evidence/ learner’s statement that indicates how the learner performed the activity testified by the workplace supervisor, what went well and what did not, what you learnt and what you should have done. You also mention what strategies you will adapt for improvement. Please note that there is no separate document for writing a reflective account. Reflective account/learner’s statement is given in the same Submission Cover Sheet (Assessment Brief document).
An occupationally competent individual i.e. a work placement supervisor, a learning resources manager, or even a teacher you are directly working with as a teaching assistant is requested to complete the Witness Statement form. Without this independent verification, it is impossible for us to approve your tasks.
There is only one witness statement form to be filled by your workplace supervisor only. This form will cover all the assessment criteria from relevant units/ modules of the accredited course that require a witness testimony.
Feel free to provide your supervisor with the Witness Statement form as soon as you have done appropriate planning and your mentor is available to fill the provided form. There is no hard and fast rule on when to undertake the activities. Some of you might choose an activity to undertake every other day and some might do every week. It varies from situation to situation.
Firstly, a witness statement is a source of evidence and does not confirm the achievement of assessment criteria or confer an assessment decision. For that purpose, the assessor needs to:
Moreover, if the supervisor has not witnessed you performing some of the targeted assessment criteria in your undertaken activities, the assessor will have to conduct an observation directly observing your activity to confirm the fulfillment of the remaining assessment criteria.
As teachers, we are bound to follow professional ethics. There is an element of trust that our trainee teaching assistants and the expert witness won’t present an inaccurate account of the activity undertaken. However, we will be vigilant and investigate where we are concerned that the sessions have not taken place as claimed.
Please refer to our main FAQs section or Contact Us; we have experienced course advisers who will be happy to assist you!
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