CACHE Level 3 Award in Supporting Teaching and Learning

course syllabus

Unit 1: Schools and Colleges as Organisations

Learning Outcome 1 – Understand the structure of education from early years to post-compulsory education

Learning Outcome 2 – Understand how schools and colleges are organised in terms of roles and responsibilities

Learning Outcome 3 – Understand teamwork in schools and colleges

Learning Outcome 4 – Understand educational ethos, mission, aims and values

Learning Outcome 5 – Understand the purpose of policies and procedures in education

Unit 2: Support Health and Safety in a Learning Environment

Learning Outcome 1 – Understand how to plan and provide environments that support children and young people’s health and safety

Learning Outcome 2 – Understand how to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a learning environment or during off-site visits

Learning Outcome 3 – Understand how to support children and young people to assess and manage risk for themselves

Learning Outcome 4 – Understand appropriate responses to accidents, incidents, emergencies and illness in the learning environment and during off-site visits

Learning Outcome 5 – Understand own role in assisting in the administration of medication

Unit 3: Understand How to Safeguard Children and Young People

Learning Outcome 1 – Understand legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people

Learning Outcome 2 – Understand how to work in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people

Learning Outcome 3 – Understand the need to ensure children and young people’s safety and protection in the learning environment

Learning Outcome 4 – Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed

Learning Outcome 5 – Understand how to work with children and young people to support their well-being

Unit 4: Understand How Children and Young People Develop

Learning Outcome 1 – Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth to nineteen years

Learning Outcome 2 – Understand the factors that influence children and young people’s development and how these affect practice

Learning Outcome 3 – Understand how to monitor children and young people’s development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern