Award in Education and Training (AET)

• To use a variety of inclusive teaching skills and learning resources to accommodate different learner needs and learning styles.
• To identify and appreciate the role and responsibilities of a teacher and the relationship between different professionals in lifelong learning together with the teacher’s responsibility for maintaining a safe and supportive learning environment.
• To identify and appreciate teaching and learning strategies and approaches in lifelong learning, and how to use these to meet the needs of learners.
• To plan and deliver an inclusive teaching and learning session, creating appropriate resources.
• To manage the group interaction using classroom management techniques.
• To identify and appreciate the principles and practices of assessment.

Teaching methods will include whole group teaching and small group work in breakout rooms and the course tutors aim to provide a fun and relaxed learning environment on this intensive course.

You will be assessed by completing a portfolio at the conclusion of the course, which consists of answering a number of questions, plus compiling notes and handouts from the course. Additionally, in the final session, each candidate will deliver an assessed fifteen minute on-line teaching session to their colleagues, on a topic of their choice, with individual feedback from the tutors.

There will be a thirty minute lunch break and some brief, stretch and stroll screen breaks, as required.

Danielle Lloyd is the founder of the Teaching Entrepreneurs Association www.teateaching.com and has been teaching adults for 25 years. She has many years’ experience on the senior management team of an adult education college. She has a Masters degree in education and is an expert in teaching others how to teach.

Helen Stockton is a freelance writer and creative writing tutor. She has written a book on teaching creative writing and is presently engaged in a PhD with Lancaster University. She has been teaching adults for twenty two years and has many years’ experience of supporting teachers in their professional development.