Teaching and learning

These modules explore a range of ideas to increase participation, motivation and achievement. They include ideas for using teaching styles and strategies that reflect applied or experiential learning. These ideas are central to the delivery of the Diploma.

What makes good applied learning?

• Introduces you to applied learning techniques.
• Demonstrates ways to embed applied learning techniques in your teaching.
• Provides advice on how to write clear aims and outcomes.
• Helps you to understand the importance of providing differentiated learning activities, the need to review whether learning has taken place and the use of assessment for learning techniques.

Effective teaching and learning strategies

• Outlines a range of teaching and learning strategies that have been proven to have a significant impact on learner achievement.
• Provides practical examples of strategies from the Diploma and other applied courses, for example evidence from the first year of delivery of the Diploma, including additional and specialist learning.

Personalising learning

• Helps you to identify the need to personalise learning for your learners.
• Allows you to explore the principles that underpin personalised learning and how they can be applied.
• Provides you with an opportunity to reflect on your current practice.
• Allows you to identify what changes you can make to personalise learning.
• Gives you an opportunity to identify ways of focusing teaching and learning on the skills and interests of learners and removing barriers to learning.

Learning styles

• Shows you ways to identify different learning styles.
• Explores ways to engage learners with different learning styles, whatever their line of learning or level.
• Helps you to adopt pedagogical approaches to promote active and experiential learning throughout Diploma delivery.

Classroom management

• Explores a range of positive strategies to engage learners in the classroom and manage behaviour.
• Explores how to meet the needs of all the individual learners within a group.

Line-specific specialist support

• Builds on your existing knowledge of the structure of the Diploma and explores your individual line of learning right down to unit level.
• Provides you with an opportunity to identify key roles responsible for quality assurance and standards of assessment, including the roles of Lead and Domain assessors.

Supporting Diploma projects

• Provides you with an overview of the requirements of the project in the Diploma at different levels.
• Explores a range of projects in different lines of learning.
• Allows you to investigate the skills development required for learners to undertake the project.

Embedding personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS) in Diploma line of learning delivery

• Provides an overview of PLTS and explains why they are an essential part of the Diploma.
• Enables you to identify ways to successfully embed PLTS within teaching and learning across the whole Diploma.

Face-to-face support is flexible – many modules can be delivered in combination with each other.

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