Earning Criteria

• This person is able to understand roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and training,  use initial and diagnostic assessment to agree individual learning goals with learners, plan inclusive teaching and learning, create and maintain a safe, inclusive teaching and learning environment, deliver inclusive teaching and learning
• This person is able to assess learning in education and training, implement expectations of the minimum core in planning, delivering and assessing inclusive teaching and learning, evaluate own practice in planning, delivering and assessing inclusive teaching and learning
• This person is able to investigate practice in own area of specialism, apply theories, principles and models of learning, communication and assessment to planning inclusive teaching and learning, apply theories of behaviour management to creating and maintaining a safe, inclusive teaching and learning environment, apply theories, principles and models of learning and communication to delivering inclusive teaching and learning
• This person is able to apply theories, models and principles of assessment to assessing learning in education and training, implement expectations of the minimum core in planning, delivering and assessing inclusive teaching and learning, apply theories and models of reflection and evaluation to the evaluation of own practices in planning, delivering and assessing inclusive teaching and learning.
• This person is able to understand the application of theories, principles and models of learning in education and training, understand the application of theories, principles and models of communication in education and training, understand the application of theories, principles and models of assessment in education and training
• This person is able to understand the application of theories and models of curriculum development within own specialism, understand the application of theories and models of reflection and evaluation to reviewing own practice.
• This person is able to understand professionalism and the influence of professional values in education and training, understand the policy context of education and training, understand the impact of accountability to stakeholders and external bodies on education and training, understand the organisational context of education and training, contribute to the quality improvement and quality assurance arrangements of own organisation.
• This qualification contains a range of optional units that the learner may have completed: 
• Delivering employability skills, Effective partnership working in the teaching and learning context, Equality and diversity, Evaluating learning programmes, Inclusive practice, Preparing for the coaching role, Preparing for the mentoring role, Preparing for the personal tutoring role, Principles and practice of lip-reading teaching
• Specialist delivery techniques and activities, Teaching in a specialist area, Understanding and managing behaviours in a learning environment, Action learning to support development of specific pedagogy, Action research, Developing, using and organising resources in a specialist area, Managing behaviours in a learning environment