CACHE Level 3 Teaching Assistant (RQF) Recognised Qualification & SEN Certificate Course.
*A placement in a school is NOT required in order to study and complete this qualification*
Units Covered Within Your Teaching Assistant Qualification:
Teaching Assistant Unit 1 – Schools and Colleges as Organisations
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the structure of education from early years to post-compulsory education
- Understand how schools and colleges are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities
- Understand teamwork in schools and colleges
- Understand educational ethos, mission, aims and values
- Understand the purpose of policies and procedures in education
Teaching Assistant Unit 2 – Support Health and Safety in a Learning Environment
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand hot to plan and provide environments that support children and young people’s health and safety
- Understand how to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a learning environment or during off-site visits
- Understand how to support children and young people to assess and manage risk for themselves
- Understand appropriate responses to accidents, incidents, emergencies and illness in the learning environment and during off-site visits
- Understand own role in assisting in the administration of medication
Teaching Assistant Unit 3 – Understand how Children and Young People Develop
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to 19 years
- Understand the factors that influence children and young people’s development and how these affect practice
- Understand how to monitor children and young people’s development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern
Teaching Assistant Unit 4 – Understand how to Safeguard Children and Young People
Learner Outcomes:
- Understand legislation guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
- Understand how to work in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people
- Understand the need to ensure children and young people’s safety and protection in the learning environment
- Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
- Understand how to work with children and young people to support their well-being
The Teaching Assistant Qualification
Qualification reference number – 603/2495/8
Credit Value - 12
Full recruitmnent support is given to all learners passing their qualifications, to help them find jobs within Primary & Secondary schools across the UK
Teaching Assistant qualification Assessment Process:
Assessments are a great way of checking your progress allowing you to apply your learning to real-world situations. Through the Teaching Assistant Level 3 (RQF) Course by NCFE CACHE, you will be assessed by a series of written assignments, which are submitted to and marked by your tutor.
All assignments are set by NCFE CACHE. Upon verification of the activities, exercises and assignments, a certificate of achievement will be awarded by NCFE, as confirmation that your written work has met all of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the teaching assistant course.
Please note: There is no examination required for this Teaching Assistant qualification course.
What's included with the Teaching Assistant qualification?
You will have access to a qualified 1-2-1 tutor throughout your Teaching Assistant qualification, via email, who will mark your work and guide you through your teaching assistant course to help you prepare for your assignments. You will be guided throughout your Teaching Assistant qualification study via our Learner Management System (LMS), this makes learning as simple as possible. Full tutor support will be given throughout your teaching assistant qualification level 3 course on a 1-2-1 basis to ensure your learning outcomes are met to a satisfactory standard.
Study Time
Study Hours are an approximate figure and are dependent upon how much time you can dedicate to your teaching assistant studies and how well you grasp the learning concepts in the course material. You should allow enough time to complete assignments/ question papers to ensure satisfactory outcomes are met.
The approximate amount of time required to complete the Teaching Assistant (Level 3) Course is: 120 hrs
