The Level 2 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools (RQF) is a UK OFQUAL-accredited, 100% online, competency-based Teaching Assistant (TA) qualification. It is designed for individuals interested in supporting child and young person development in educational settings.
This qualification equips learners with the necessary knowledge and understanding to contribute to teamwork in a learning environment for children and young people's development. Key areas covered include communication and professional relationships with children, promoting an effective learning environment, and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
Successful completion of this certificate demonstrates your ability to understand children, young people, and adults, maintain relationships with children and young people, and promote equality, diversity, and inclusion in your work. By enrolling in this programme, you will gain the skills needed to successfully complete your role as a teaching assistant and support children and young people's learning in a positive and inclusive manner.
This Level 2 certificate in support teaching and learning in schools is intended for individuals who want to work as teaching assistants or who are currently employed as teaching assistants, learning support assistants, SEN teaching assistants, early years setting, etc. in primary, secondary, or special schools.
You can earn this Level 2 Teaching Assistant qualification online at your own pace if that works best for you. To become a certified teaching assistant, you can complete this Level 2 course in as short as four weeks or as long as nine months. You have the opportunity to complete this course earlier at your own speed and convenience using the fast-track option that we provide. In order to help you reach your goals on time, the qualification is offered through our virtual learning environment (VLE) with competitive online tutor support.
This Level 2 Certificate in supporting teaching is governed by OFQUAL entirely, and is assessed internally by our certified assessors and externally verified by the awarding body. The assessment consists of a written task, for which the tutor will provide comprehensive instructions, and witness statements at work that have been signed by your supervisor. Once you are registered on our online VLE, you will get tutor support to help you accomplish your objectives.
The Level 2 Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools helps learners enhance their career profiles. Successful completion of this 100% accredited online course enables learners to proceed to the following qualifications:
Awarding Body: Focus Awards
Qualification Number: 601/7118/2
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Enquire NowThere are no specific entry requirements for this qualification. However, the learners must be 16 years or above to get themselves enrolled in this course.
As this is a competence-based qualification, learners are required to be employed or hold a placement within an appropriate school environment, so they can demonstrate their skills and progression. You must be supervised by a qualified teacher willing to attest to a range of activities undertaken and to oversee your practical evidence gathering.
All units in the course will be assessed through a series of written assignments submitted to and marked by your course tutor. For some units, you must provide witness testimony to meet the assessment criteria requirement.
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All prices include course fees, awarding body dues, OfQual approved certification, postage of certificate & VAT. The final certification you get is the same,
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All prices include course fee, awarding body charges, OfQual approved certification, postage of certificate. The final certification you get is exactly the
same, regardless of what route you pick. There are no strict deadlines for submission of individual coursework, allowing you room and flexibility to pace your
studies; the only deadline is the overall course duration based on the option that you have selected above.
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Accredited Certification
You will receive your accredited certificate and transcript at no additional cost from our approved awarding body.
This course is essentially for those learners who either are, or wish to undertake a job as a teaching assistant, classroom assistant or learning support assistant within a school.
This course requires 30 credits for completion. Credits from the Award can be carried (if the learner already has this qualification) over and counted towards the certificate.
Our courses are OFQUAL approved as we work with an approved awarding organisation called “Focus Awards”. This is a well-respected awarding organisation for education and training courses. This is the confirmation of their status-https://register.ofqual.gov.uk/Detail/Index/1391?category=organisations&query=focus%20awards.
This course is for anyone who is looking to start a career as:
The course will open doors to your new career as a teaching assistant working with children in a school environment.
The learners are required to have a work placement in a school environment and must be supervised by a qualified teacher.
You will receive your course material right after getting enrolled in the course at our online virtual learning environment (VLE).
There is no time frame to complete the course. Learners can complete it within 4 weeks (fast track), or up to 9 months.
Have a quick look at the following chart for TA courses to know which course suits you the best:
Witness testimonies are classed as “supporting” evidence and provide additional information in the form of a statement of authentication from an occupationally competent individual who verifies all relevant details of a learner’s workplace activities and validates that the learner can conduct a skill or task. In some instances, the course requires the learner to demonstrate certain skills such as “Positive working relationships” or “motivate and support children and young people’s positive behaviour”, all of which are very difficult to prove using documentary evidence alone. Hence, an expert witness is tasked with providing a written record of the learner’s performance at the workplace, precisely describing the activity undertaken against targeted assessment criteria and confirming if these have been followed in the work setting. Witness testimonies are compulsory in certain units and this will be clearly stated in the relevant Assignment Guide. Moreover, it is to be noted that you will need to write a reflective account as well along with providing the witness testimony.
A reflective account is the supporting written evidence/ learner’s statement that indicates how the learner performed the activity testified by the workplace supervisor, what went well and what did not, what you learnt and what you should have done. You also mention what strategies you will adapt for improvement. Please note that there is no separate document for writing a reflective account. A reflective account/learner’s statement is given in the same Submission Cover Sheet (Assessment Brief document).
An occupationally competent individual i.e. a work placement supervisor, a learning resources manager, or even a teacher you are directly working with as a teaching assistant is requested to complete the Witness Statement form. Without this independent verification, it is impossible for us to approve your tasks.
There is only one witness statement form to be filled by your workplace supervisor only. This form will cover all the assessment criteria from relevant units/ modules of the accredited course that require a witness testimony.
Feel free to provide your supervisor with the Witness Statement form as soon as you have done appropriate planning and your mentor is available to fill the provided form. There is no hard and fast rule on when to undertake the activities. Some of you might choose an activity to undertake every other day and some might do it every week. It varies from situation to situation.
Firstly, a witness statement is a source of evidence and does not confirm the achievement of assessment criteria or confer an assessment decision. For that purpose, the assessor needs to:
Moreover, if the supervisor has not witnessed you performing some of the targeted assessment criteria in your undertaken activities, the assessor will have to conduct an observation directly observing your activity to confirm the fulfilment of the remaining assessment criteria.
As teachers, we are bound to follow professional ethics. There is an element of trust that our trainee teaching assistants and the expert witness won’t present an inaccurate account of the activity undertaken. However, we will be vigilant and investigate where we are concerned that the sessions have not taken place as claimed.
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