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From January 2011 anyone in receipt of government funding for teaching will require a PTLLS certificate. PTLLS stands for "Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector". Essentially anyone who delivers learning to one or more individuals will be covered by this regulation, whether the teaching is delivered in a classroom or at business premises. It will cover full time teachers delivering lessons in a college and at the same time will cover trainers and assessors providing courses and underpinning knowledge for work and vocational qualifications. The intention with PTLLS is to have a "one size fits all" qualification which will give all qualified teachers a substantive qualification that allows them to pass the necessary threshold to teach.


Indicative content
· own role, responsibilities and boundaries of role in relations to teaching.
· the teacher’s contractual obligations
· the Appropriate national codes of professional practice and their relevance to current adult learning.
· how to plan for inclusiveness (ensuring that the planned learning activities meet the needs of all learners)
· how to make learning programmes more accessible, and why this is important (link to recent White Papers, lifelong learning, etc)
· widening participation and how the individual can contribute to widening participation.
· the organisation’s recording procedures
· Identify appropriate assessment procedures for evaluating learners’ potential to achieve required learning outcome.
· teaching and learning approaches
· how to encourage learner motivation
· Explore other sources of learning support for the learner
· Recognise Learning styles and identifies learners learning styles
· How to define and record aims clearly on schemes of work and lesson plans
· Recognise that each lesson plan should clearly identify its aims and
outcomes/objectives.
· the rights of learners, equality and diversity in learning
· how to communicate effectively with colleagues.
· the limits of one’s own competence and when to seek advice.
· how to create an environment conducive to learning
· Recognise the advantages and disadvantages of a range of methods (eg lecture, discussion, role play)
· how to give feedback in such ways as to encourage learners and reinforce learning
· how to select and organise information effectively and ways of
presenting information and ideas
· concepts and benefits of keeping a reflective journal
· how to plan own personal development and identify areas for
improvement.
· Distinguishes between formative and summative assessment procedures
· the role of assessment in the overall evaluation of learning
programmes(summative)
· the purpose of self-, peer- and tutor assessments, and how these
relate to one another
· the advantages and disadvantages of different forms of assessment (eg practical, question and answer, short answer test)
· the range of assessment methods
· how to establish what constitutes acceptable levels of work to enable
learners to meet learning outcomes.
· practical procedures for conducting and recording assessment

Dates: 1 day a week for 6 weeks starting
16th March 2011
6th July 2011
11th October 2011

Venue:
CERT Business Suite
Immingham Resource Centre
Margaret Street
Immingham
DN40 1LE

Cost:
£450

Learning and Skills VCS Network 'Technology Beacon' Training Shipley College, Victoria Road, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, BD18 3LQ 10.00-12.30, Wednesday 25 April & Wednesday 23 May 2012         Ten people will become ‘Technology Beacons’ for the Involve Yorkshire & Humber's Learning and Skills VCS Network Virtual Network project.   These are valuable, free training opportunities with free equipment that will assist your organisation to develop virtual forms of collective communication.   Involve Y&H is running this partnership project with Shipley College to convert the physical meetings of the LSVN to virtual ones – but it’s essential that in doing this we take all our members with us.   There are two training days for ten volunteers to be Technology Beacons – basically these people need to have a basic grasp of IT and be willing to learn. Tara Phelan, leading the training, is an experienced trainer at Shipley College who has developed ways of doing this and would like to train LSVN members.

Price This training is free to all members of the Network. You can join the Network by completing the membership form and giving it to us on the day. 

  Book now! To book a space on either both or one of the days, please complete and return this booking form