Role specific training offers support for your teaching methods and approaches, whether you are new to technical education or whether you are experienced and want to enhance your practice focused on the challenges of T Levels.
Route specific courses focus on what you need for delivery and assessment, critical legislation and planning considerations, as well as teaching approaches and practical skills development.
To access role and route courses, please sign up or log in to the Professional Development Platform.
Teaching T Levels is split into two workstreams: Enhanced Pedagogy and Vocational and Professional Upskilling. We also offer a Teaching T Levels in Schools course for staff in schools and sixth forms.
Enhanced Pedagogy
This course will help you develop your pedagogical and professional practice as a vocational and technical teacher. You will explore different pedagogical approaches to help you design and deliver a successful T Level curriculum. You will also explore T-Shaped Learning, subject specific terminology and consider how to support your learners to develop behaviours for their employability journey.
Course delivery: We recommend you complete the online on demand course first at a time that suits you. This will ensure you are prepared for the live online/face-to-face course and will help you get the most from your CPD activity.
Vocational and Professional Upskilling
This course will help you develop your professional practice as a vocational and technical teacher. You will explore the importance of your dual professional role and keeping a clear line of sight to work throughout your T Level curriculum. You will also gain an understanding of the importance of developing a strong employer relationship and consider the knowledge, skills and behaviours learners need to be successful in the workplace.
Course delivery: We recommend you complete the online on demand course first at a time that suits you. This will ensure you are prepared for the live online/face-to-face course and will help you get the most from your CPD activity.
Teaching T Levels in Schools
This course supports school teachers to develop their pedagogical practice in the context of teaching T Levels. It will help to bring the world of work and industry practices into your classrooms, laboratories, and workshops, enabling you to deliver a rich curriculum with intent.
The course will help you:
Course delivery: We recommend you complete the online on demand course first at a time that suits you. This will ensure you are prepared for the live online/face-to-face course and will help you get the most from your CPD activity.
These courses focus on subject-specific T Levels and have been developed for the sector, by the sector. They are available on demand through FutureLearn, live online or face to face on-site at college campuses.
Introducing T Levels courses are route-specific courses and are suitable for frontline teachers and middle managers. These courses focus on:
Teaching and Learning on T Level courses are subject-specific courses suitable for teaching staff. These courses focus on:
Delivery of the Catering T Level has been deferred beyond 2024, therefore the below courses are currently unavailable.
This suite of courses will provide you with practical support to help you deliver the embedded English, Maths and Digital competencies in your T Level courses. You will gain an understanding of the General Competencies for T Levels for each of these core skills and take away a range of practical approaches to teaching, learning and assessment that will help to build your skills, knowledge and confidence so that your learners can progress.
Course delivery: A mixture of online and face-to-face courses. The online courses can be accessed through the Professional Development Platform once you have inputted your T Level Occupational Specialism.
In-house training can be facilitated for your team as a group, either face-to-face or virtually. Please contact your Area Relationship and Development Lead for more information.
This course will build your understanding of how the key principles of assessment are put into practice for T Levels. You will consider possible approaches to formative assessment for T Level programmes and you will also explore the assessment approaches used in the T Levels you teach and how to best support your learners for assessment.
This course will help you to:
Course delivery: These courses will be available for self-directed study online via FutureLearn and for scheduled sessions through interactive live online delivery. Taking both courses will maximise the impact of your CPD activity.