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Certificate
in Further Education Teaching
City & Guilds
7407 - Stage 2
Course Code: NCG002
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The City & Guilds 7407 Certificate
in Further Education Teaching is based on the FENTO (Further Education
National Training Organisation) Occupational Standards, Stages One
and Two. The certificate is designed for full-time and part-time
teachers who are practising or starting out in post-16 education
and training.
The course is an introduction to teaching skills
and allows students to consider the 8 Key Areas of the FENTO standards
and the underpinning values of reflective practice and ethics. Provides
students with the ability to identify relevant theoretical
sources and to critically analyse these to extend their knowledge
and understanding.
Course Aims |
The course aims
to enable serving and new teachers to build their confidence
and skills in designing appropriate courses and schemes of
work and to teach these effectively.
The course is designed to prepare students
for careers in the teaching/training profession. The course
aims to enable teacher to teach or train students at Further
Education and Higher Education levels.
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Course
Market |
This course for those, currently teaching adults (full or
part time) in Further and Adult Education, Community, Adult
Education of Basic Skills.
Legislation introduced in 2001 requires that teachers new
to further education have the minimum of a Level 4 teaching
qualification.
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Course Structure |
| All modules are compulsory
Stage - 2
109 - Identify and assess learners needs
110 - Plan and manage the learning process
111 - Use techniques and facilitate learning
112 - Principles of learning
113 - Communication Seminar paper
114 - Develop resources
115 - Support and guidance
116 - Assessment
117 - Educational Issues
118 - Personal Development
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Duration |
This is a 24 week part-time day/evening
course . The programme criteria is a minimum of 130 hours for
study and practice, minimum study hours excluding tutorial
and support time is 90 hours and required teaching practice
is 40 hours. The hours stated are the minimum hours required
for this course, students must assign self-study hours outside
these stated hours.
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Assessment |
- City & Guilds 7407 course is assessed through
observed teaching practice and preparation of a portfolio
of coursework, which relates to your teaching.
- The assessment for Stage Two may be done unit by
unit, but learning may be improved if a more integrated
approach is taken. The assignments for units 109, 110,
111, 114 and 116 lend themselves to being linked together.
Assignment 118 also ties in with these units.
- An 80% attendance is required for this course.
- 2 tutor observations and 1 observation by an experienced
and qualified subject teacher.
- Coursework is assessed
on a Portfolio Base.
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Entry Requirements |
- Candidates must have at least 40 hours teaching during the
programme, access to a workplace-teaching mentor, and be appropriately
qualified in their teaching subject .
- Your Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a covering letter outlining
your specialist subject area and the level taught at.
- Ideally you should hold a GCSE in English at C, a minimum
of IELTS score 5.5 (though a score of 6 is preferred) or an
equivalent qualification.
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Exemptions |
No exemptions awarded. |
Progression |
On completion of this course, depending on the learners’ goal, achievement
and experience they could progress onto the Stage 3 of the Certificate
in Further Education Teaching or the Postgraduate Certificate in Education/Postgraduate
Diploma in Higher Education. |
Note: Commencement of any program is subject to
enrolment of a minimum of 5 students per program. NLC reserves the
right to withdraw any or all of the programs prior to its commencement,
without further notice.
Additional Information:
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UK NARIC website on http://www.naric.org.uk
(Here a C&G Level 4 is a Band 8 and Band 9 is an Bachelors
(Ordinary) Degree)
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