To be accepted onto this course you will need five GCSE's at grades 4-9 (to include English, Maths and Science)
We are blazing a trail for ambitious students through this prestigious new qualification. Designed with great input from employers, the content is up-to-date, relevant, engaging, and can lead straight into a career. This T Level programme will prepare you for working with young children and their families. You will spend 20% of your time on a placement, giving you great insight into the industry and a head-start in your career. We will develop your skills for a variety of workplaces, such as schools and private homes.
This course is ideal for School Leavers who want to pursue a career working with, or educating, children. The course provides a route into apprenticeships, university or employment.
T Levels are two-year, technical programmes designed with employers to give young people the skills that industry needs. They give students aged 16 to 18 a technical alternative to A Levels and will help them to get a skilled job. T Levels will provide a mixture of:
- Technical knowledge and practical skills specific to their chosen industry or occupation
- An industry placement of at least 45 days in their chosen industry or occupation
- Relevant maths, English and digital skills
- Common workplace skills
- An industry placement of at least 45 days in their chosen industry or occupation
- Relevant maths, English and digital skills
- Common workplace skills
What experience and skills will you gain?
The core units are:
- Education context: an overview of childcare and education 0-19; working in the sector, roles and responsibilities plus career opportunities
- Child development: expected patterns of development from 0-19 including language, social interaction, wellbeing, transitions and significant events
- Supporting education: different key stages, skills and characteristics that support education, pedagogical approaches, the role of metacognition, using technology and factors affecting development of literacy and mathematics
- Safeguarding, health and wellbeing: statutory guidance, legal requirements, children at risk and in need, signs of danger or abuse and impacts
- Behaviour: the stages of development and factors that impact behaviour and therefore the implications for managing behaviour
- Observation and assessment: purposes and importance of assessment
- Equality and diversity: legislation, regulation and codes of practice
- Special educational needs and disability (SEND): principles of inclusion, relevant laws, codes of practice and professionals/organisations
- English as an Additional Language (EAL): stages of acquiring language and factors affecting it, strategies to support those learning EAL
- Parents, families and carers: working effectively with these people
- Working with others: agencies and services that support children, families and carers, developing professional boundaries and relationships
- Reflective practice: current priorities and debates in education, continuing professional development, development feedback and strategies.
- The Early Years Education and Childcare Specialist Unit will focus on:
- Supporting and promoting children’s play, development and early education
- Developing relationships with children to facilitate their development
- Planning, providing and reviewing care, play and educational opportunities to enable children to progress
- Safeguarding and promoting the health, safety and wellbeing of children
- Working in partnership with colleagues, parents, carers and other professionals to support children’s development
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Campus
This course will be delivered at Lambeth College - Clapham
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What do you need to apply?
5 GCSE at 4 and above must include English GCSE.
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How will you be assessed?
Assessment is through two exams, employer set project industry placement and an occupational specialism project.
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Where can this course take you?
On completion of this course, you could continue studying through an apprenticeship to grow your skills in the workplace or study a related subject at university, such as early years or teaching
