Learning for the apprentice:

• Provides the opportunity to develop valuable and purposeful skills in assessing students’ learning and progress and understand where their key skills and challenges lie, to help them reach their potential.
• Enables you to stretch yourself and take on additional responsibilities at work.
• Supports your professional development plans.
• Enables you to understand the needs of individual learners throughout the year, so that your practice can be adapted accordingly to enable you to better support the needs of your learners.
• Supports your development of key professional behaviours and ways to communicate with all stakeholders in a student’s learning – including colleagues, external agencies, parents and the student themselves.
• Offers a supportive environment for learning, with coaching from experienced and highly qualified tutors and peer networking opportunities.

Benefits of in-house educational testing for school

• Deliver a demonstrable positive impact on outcomes for students in the school.
• Have staff trained to understand the needs of individual learners so that support can be adapted accordingly.
• Develop their internal expertise instead of relying on external agencies.
• Reduce costs and lengthy waits often associated with using external support, by having a competent educational test user in-house.
• Improve collaboration with external agencies by enabling staff to effectively understand and discuss written reports from other professionals.
• Delegate testing to an additional, trained member of staff, freeing up their SENCOs time.
• Develop the capacity to conduct educational testing throughout the year, rather than simply focussing on termly assessments.
• Provide a personalised testing experience as opposed to standard computer licences.
• Benefit from training that is delivered online with minimal disruption to the school schedule and with practice-led projects that make an impact in school straight away.

Who is this course suitable for?

• Schools may choose to upskill one or more, HLTA or Teaching Assistant to provide valuable support for the SENCO.
• The course provides a valuable CPD for the school SENCO.

What are the entry requirements

Although it is an open access qualification, an apprentice would typically be expected to have already achieved GCSE Maths and English, Grade C or above or 4/5. Some elements of this apprenticeship do require a reasonably high level of ability for English and Maths but rest-assured that due to the supportive nature of the qualification, even apprentices completing their functional skills qualifications would find this achievable.

How will you be assessed?

All apprentices that successfully complete the Learning and Skills Assessor Apprenticeship will receive a Certificate awarded by the EPA Organisation. The certificate will be recognised by the DfE and the Institute for Apprenticeships. The assessment will result in either a ‘fail’, ‘pass’ or ‘distinction’.

Fund educational testing using your Apprenticeship Levy

Fully fund this new, exciting apprenticeship programme that will bring educational assessment and testing skills in-house by utilising your Apprenticeship Levy.

The levy can then be used to cover the cost of the apprenticeship training and assessment. The way in which the levy applies depends on the type of school and the overall employer

• Upskill a member of your staff team to plan and conduct assessment and testing activities that will help you to better understand the needs of your pupils and develop skills and expertise in the field of learning and development.

Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing (CCET)

There is an additional fee of £75 + VAT to upgrade the apprenticeship to include Certificate of Competence in Educational Testing (CCET).

This applies only to those wishing to study the optional content covering the Theories of intelligence. 
You can register your interest for the CCET top-up course when you sign up for the apprenticeship.

How to enroll

• You may choose to register one or more members of your staff to attend this training or they may register themselves.

Educational and Sporting Futures Training is delighted to work alongside Real Group, leading provider of training in educational testing and professional assessment to utilise specialist learning resources and expertise.