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Advanced Diploma in Teaching, Training and Assessing Learning

This Learning program is at least 100 Guided Learning Hours in length. Learners in this program engage in a combination of classroom based and realistic working environment based activities.? At the end of the program students should be able to:

Describe the learning environment and the identification of good and bad learningexperiences
Explain the importance of learning styles
Carry out a diagnostic meeting with a learner resulting in a learning plan
Write learning aims and objectives
Produce a learning programme
Produce session plans
Structure the plans in a way that encourages, consolidates and assesses learning
Select and adapt appropriate resources
Plan for evaluation
Deliver a planned teaching/learning session
Manage the teaching/learning environment
Demonstrate effective communication skills
Identify and describe a range of assessment methods
Use an assessment activity
Record and use results appropriately
Identify and describe appropriate methods of evaluation
Apply evaluation methods to sessions and learning programme
Reflect on their own learning and practice
Prepare an action plan for own development

Learners in this program will be assessed through on-going methods and final assessments of multiple choice test, and practical assessments.

Benefits

The Diploma in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector can enhance career development in a wide range of fields but has particular relevance to those working in vocational education, training, coaching and mentoring, and workers in the voluntary sector.

The course is designed to provide education and training for those hoping to enter, or entering, the education section to provide teaching, principally in the areas of training or instruction in the lifelong learning sector. Learners gain the knowledge, understanding, skills and techniques, personal qualities and attitudes essential for successful performance in within the context of teaching.

Awarding Body

Edexcel BTEC and Hong Kong Communication Art Centre

Courses


Part A	Advanced Diploma Specialist Advanced Diploma
Part B	Sales Team Management and Leadership
Part C	Electives
Part D	Supervised Teaching Practice (STP)

Part A - Advanced Diploma

Identifying learners needs
Plan and prepare learning
Delivering learning
Assess outcomes
Evaluation
Assessment: A summative multiple choice paper and holistic report

Part A - Specialist Advanced Diploma

As for Advanced Diploma; plus

E-Learning (25 hours)
Assessing Competence Certificate (25 hours

Part B –Sales Team Management and Leadership

This part is designed for the people who would like to operate their own tutorial centers or develop their career in educational industry. Its aim is to equip the educators and administrators with effective selling and management skills.

The content includes how to schedule and analyze a weekly sales plan in order to develop a successful sales system, identify the roles of a manager and a leader, teambuilding techniques, human resources management,? how to increase the sales volume, etc.

Part C – Electives

Students have to select one of the following courses as electives:
Teaching Techniques for Tutorial Class (補習課程導師教學技巧)

Teaching Techniques for Memory Study
(記憶學課程導師教學技巧)
Teaching Techniques for Mahmood RumJahn’s Phonics Class (林慕德唱快學英語課程教學技巧)
Teaching Techniques for Handcraft & Flour Flowers Class (手工藝 / 粉花製作課程教學技巧)

Part D – Supervised Teaching Practice (STP)
The objectives for the STP are:

1. Working as a team
2. Lesson Planning
3. Classroom techniques
4. Language analysis for teaching
5. Assessing learner achievements
6. Accurate language models
7. Developing teaching materials
8. Student rapport
9. Providing feedback
10. Classroom management

The STP includes teaching, observations, feedback sessions, writing a teaching journal, lesson planning and compiling a portfolio. This unit is assessed by observation of classroom teaching and by a portfolio of written work.