Award in Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS) City and Guilds 7303: Level 3

The aim of this course is
To provide sufficiently qualified or experienced candidates with the threshold teaching qualification.

This course will help you to
• Understand your own role, responsibilities and boundaries of role in relation to teaching

• Understand teaching and learning approaches in your specialist area

• Demonstrate session planning skills

• Understand how to deliver inclusive sessions which motivate learners

• Understand the use of different assessment methods and the need for record keeping 
 
Who should attend?
People considering teaching or teachers who are new to employment in the lifelong learning sector - further and higher education, adult and community education, work based learning, private training.
Previous teaching experience is not essential.

How to book
To book a place simply click the ‘Register Now’ button that appears at the bottom of this page.

If this is a paid course, you don’t need to pay online – we will post an invoice out to you and you will receive a 10% discount for booking online. If you have a training voucher please add details to the 'Additional Information' box and we will apply this discount to your invoice.

If you don’t know your Membership rate you can still register and someone from our Admin Team will contact you to confirm your payment rate.

Once you have registered, you will immediately receive an email to confirm your registration and a second email confirming your booking will be sent one week prior to the training date.

You can also book onto this course by returning a completed copy of the WEA Application Form, together with payment, to our Admin Team. Please click here to download a WEA Application Form.

If you have any queries or need some additional help with booking please contact us on 0161 787 7795.

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Trainer profile
Hazel Payg from the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) will facilitate the course. WEA is the UK’s largest voluntary sector provider of adult learning.

Assessment and certification
Award in Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS) City and Guilds 7303: Level 3. Assessment will be through a variety of written assignments plus a ‘micro’ teaching session.

Date and time
This is a 30 hour programme, which runs over 6 weekly sessions from 22nd February 2011 to 29th March 2011 (9.30am - 3.00pm each Tuesday).

Tuesday 22nd February 2011
Tuesday 1st March 2011
Tuesday 8th March 2011
Tuesday 15th March 2011
Tuesday 22nd March 2011
Tuesday 29th March 2011

Other information
PTLLS is the new minimum requirement for people who wish to teach in post-16 education; it is the first step to a full teacher qualification.