Level 5 Learning and Skills Teacher Apprenticeship Standards

As an apprentice you will learn the below skills:

• Integrate subject and pedagogic research into teaching activity to enhance teaching and support changes of practice
• Identify, consider and take steps to minimise the impact of barriers to learning
• Contextualise English and mathematics in a way that promotes understanding of key topics
• Use a variety of teaching and assessment methods depending on the learning environment and learners’ needs
• Encourage learners to set challenging goals
• Promote understanding of equality and diversity and sustainable development
• Demonstrate through their teaching the wider context (policy, economic, societal, technological, legal, cultural and environmental) of the subject, recognising the implications for professional practice
• Design and use resources that are inclusive and add value to learners’ development
• Engage and inspire all learners
• Identify and set outcomes to enable each learner to achieve or exceed targets
• Provide ongoing learner feedback
• Use the results of initial and diagnostic assessment to plan learning and differentiated support at the start of and throughout the learners’ journey
• Encourage learners to develop: autonomy and resilience, personal and interpersonal effectiveness, social awareness and respect for others, essential employability skills, a solutions mindset, and the ability to create change
• Use assessment data to regularly review and develop own and others’ practice and to report emerging gaps in progression and achievement amongst groups of learners
• Support the implementation and execution of safeguarding procedures and promote the welfare of children, young people and/or adults in accordance with statutory provisions
• Prepare learners for their transition through education, further training, and into employment
• Comply with internal and external regulations, legislation and guidance, such as: teaching, learning and assessment, recording, storing and sharing information relating to learners
• Adapt communication style, method, and terminology to reflect the needs of the audience including individual learners, colleagues, stakeholders
• Engage learners to establish standards of behaviour, mutual respect and safe working
• Challenge learners to address inappropriate behaviour or viewpoints
• Continually update and maintain their own knowledge and skills as a teaching professional and a subject specialist as part of managing their own continual professional development (CPD)
• Be proactive in seeking and responding to feedback from varied sources including learner voice, peers, colleagues, employers and stakeholders to improve own practice
• Manage workload through preparation and prioritisation, time management, and responsiveness to change
• Act within, the statutory frameworks which set out their professional duties and responsibilities
• Use innovative and up to date digital and online technologies in a way that is safe to improve teaching, learning and assessment