Diploma in Education

Details

This course is for teachers and trainers working in Further Education Colleges, Adult and Community Learning, 14-19 units in Schools and Academies, Private Training Organisations, Prison Education and the Public services (Police, Paramedics, Fire Service) The diploma is the full teaching qualification for the further education sector.

Success Rates

The teacher training department is run by highly qualified and experienced staff. The department has a long history of excellent success rates which exceed the national averages on all courses.

Will the course give me what I want?

Course Content

The course covers the following units:

• Teaching, learning and assessment in education and training
• Theories, principles and models in education and training
• Understanding and Managing behaviour in a learning environment
• Preparing for the personal tutoring role
• Delivering Employability Skills 

• Developing teaching, learning and assessment in education and training
• Teaching  in a specialist area
• Action Research
• Wider Professional Practice in education and training

Outline of Skills and Knowledge

The aim of the diploma is to provide teachers, training and tutors in, or intending to enter, a full teaching role with the underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills in order to effectively fulfil the full teacher role and to claim Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills status (QTLS).

What have students who have taken this course in the past progressed to?

Successful candidates have gone on to achieve Qualified Teaching and Learning skills status and/or have secured permanent teaching employment or progressed on to further studies in education.