Mandatory Units

Unit 1: Communication and professional relationships with children, young people and adults - F/601/3327

• Understand the principles of developing positive relationships with children, young people and adults
• Understand how to communicate with children, young people and adults
• Understand legislation, policies and procedures for confidentiality and sharing information, including data protection

Unit 2: Schools as organisations - A/601/3326

• Know the structure of education from early years to post- compulsory education
• Understand how schools are organised in terms of roles andresponsibilities
• Understand school ethos, mission, aims and values
• Know about the legislation affecting schools
• Understand the purpose of school policies and procedures
• Understand the wider context in which schools operate

Unit 3: Understand Child and Young Person Development - L/601/1693

• Understand the expected pattern of development for children and young people from birth - 19 years.
• Understand the factors that influence children and young people’s development and how these affect practice.
• Understand how to monitor children and young people’s development and interventions that should take place if this is not following the expected pattern.
• Understand the importance of early intervention to support the speech, language and communication needs of children and young people.
• Understand the potential effects of transitions on children and young people’s development.

Unit 4: Understand How to Safeguard the Wellbeing of Children and Young People - Y/601/1695

• Understand the main legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding children and young people
• Understand the importance of working in partnership with other organisations to safeguard children and young people
• Understand the importance of ensuring children and young people’s safety and protection in the work setting
• Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused or harmed
• Understand how to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been bullied
• Understand how to work with children and young people to support their safety and wellbeing.
• Understand the importance of e-safety for children and young people

Unit 5: Support assessment for learning - A/601/4072

• Understand the purpose and characteristics of assessment for learning
• Be able to use assessment strategies to promote learning
• Be able to support learners in reviewing their learning strategies and achievements
• Be able to contribute to reviewing assessment for learning

Unit 6: Support learning activities - F/601/4073

• Be able to contribute to planning learning activities
• Be able to prepare for learning activities
• Be able to support learning activities
• Be able to observe and report on learner participation and progress
• Be able to contribute to the evaluation of learning activities
• Be able to evaluate own practice in relation to supporting literacy, numeracy and ICT

Unit 7: Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings - A/601/1429

• Understand what is required for competence in own work role
• Be able to reflect on practice
• Be able to evaluate own performance
• Be able to agree a personal development plan
• Be able to use learning opportunities and reflective practice to contribute to personal development

Unit 8: Promote children and young people’s positive behaviour - A/601/4069

• Understand policies and procedures for promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour
• Be able to promote positive behaviour
• Be able to manage inappropriate behaviour
• Be able to respond to challenging behaviour
• Be able to contribute to reviews of behaviour and behaviour policies

Unit 9: Support Children and Young People's Health and Safety - D/601/1696

• Understand how to plan and provide environments and services that support children and young people’s health and safety
• Be able to recognise and manage risks to health, safety and security in a work setting or off site visits
• Understand how to support children and young people to assess and manage risk for themselves
• Understand appropriate responses to accidents, incidents emergencies and illness in work settings and off site visits

Unit 10: Develop professional relationships with children, young people and adults - H/601/4065

• Be able to develop professional relationships with children and young people
• Be able to communicate with children and young people
• Be able to develop professional relationships with adults
• Be able to support children and young people in developing relationships
• Be able to comply with policies and procedures for confidentiality, sharing information and data protection

Unit 11: Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in work with children and young people - M/601/4070

• Be able to promote equality and diversity in work with children and young people
• Understand the impact of prejudice and discrimination on children and young people
• Be able to support inclusion and inclusive practices in work with children and young people

To achieve the TQUK 3 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools, learners must achieve a minimum of 32 credits overall from the Mandatory Units shown above. You can find a list of full unit details in the course qualification handbook. 

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Your induction will be arranged once you have finished all of the other enrolment modules, and will take place over the phone.

You can expect any work submitted to be marked within just 14 days unless agreed otherwise with your assessor. Your work may not be marked within 14 days if you submitted more than 3 assignments in a month.

As our qualifications are vocational and work-based courses, you are expected to conduct research and gain skills, knowledge and understanding from your working environment. Your assessor will provide you with assessment plans, which may include guidance and materials, as well as providing constructive feedback on the work that you complete.

Your assessor will provide you with assessment plans with work to complete, as well as their contact information. They will not reach out to you if you are not doing your work, you need to get in touch if you are having trouble with your assignments.

Your assessor should respond to any messages from you within just 3-working days, but it is usually sooner. If you have sent your assessor a message and you haven’t heard back from them, please let us know by emailing [email protected].

On completion of your course, there are steps that we must take to quality assure your qualification to then send to the awarding organisation.

1. The Assessor must review your work in full before submitting it to our IQA, this usually takes around 2 weeks.
2. The IQA will review any requests within 1-months, but this is usually sooner. If there are actions on your portfolio it will be sent to the assessor for them to complete, and then these steps will be repeated.
3. Once the IQA has quality checked and approved your portfolio for external sampling by the awarding body, the office will submit the claim for your certificate within 5 working days.
4. The awarding body will usually issue a certificate within 2-weeks from this point; however, they may request sampling of your work, in which case it can be up to one month.

The usual duration is 1-2 months from completion.