Skills Bootcamps in Teaching & Learning

Course length: 16 weeks

Times: Part time evenings, 3 hours a week 

Location: Gateshead College Skills Academy for Construction, NE11 0JL

Start dates: September and November 2024 TBC

This Skills Bootcamp will provide essential knowledge and understanding that teaching staff need to assess their learners. It is intended for those who are looking to assess both occupational competence in the work environment and vocational skills and knowledge and understanding in environments other than the workplace (for example a workshop, classroom or other training environment).

Learners will look at how to plan assessments throughout the academic year and how to make assessment decisions which are sufficient, authentic and reliable.

Course content includes:

• Understanding the principles and practices of assessment
• Assessing occupational competence in the work environment
• Different types of assessment methods which would best meet learners’ needs
• Assessing vocational skills, knowledge and understanding
• Legal issues, policies and procedures relevant to assessment, including those for confidentiality, health, safety and welfare

Award on completion:

NCFE Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement

This Skills Bootcamp is designed for new entrants to the early years sector, those wishing to reskill to change career, or those already employed in teaching assistant roles who need to upskill to support the early years skills shortage for SEND specialists.

The course is tailored to people working, or intending to work, with pre-school, nursery and reception children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

Course content includes:

• Understanding Behaviour that Challenges
• Understanding Vulnerable Children LAC and ACE’s. [Local Authority Children and Children with Adverse Childhood Experiences]
• Meeting Individual Needs
• Child and Family Mental Health
• Understanding Attachment
• Impact of Premature Birth
• Understanding Autism  

Course length: 16 weeks

Times: Part time evenings, 3 hours a week 

Location: Gateshead College Skills Academy for Construction, NE11 0JL

Start dates: September and November 2024 TBC

This Skills Bootcamp provides an introduction in to teaching and aims to meet the needs of a range of trainee teachers, such as; individuals not currently in a teaching or training role, individuals currently teaching and training (including those who have just begun teaching and training) or individuals currently working as assessors who wish to achieve a qualification that provides an introduction into teaching.

Course contents includes:

• Understanding roles, responsibilities and relationships in education and training
• Understanding and using inclusive teaching and learning approaches in education and training
• Understanding assessment in education and training

Award on completion:

• NCFE Level 3 Award in Education and Training, Accredited

Course length: 16 weeks

Times: Part time evenings, 3 hours a week 

Location: Gateshead College Skills Academy for Construction, NE11 0JL

Start dates: September and November 2024 TBC

The course is designed to meet the needs of aspiring teachers who wish to lead their departments Internal Quality Assurance. The purpose of this Skills Bootcamp is to develop knowledge and understanding of internal quality assurance. 

Course content includes:

• Understanding the principles and practices of Internally Assuring the Quality of Assessment
• Internally Assure the Quality of Assessment
• Plan, Allocate and Monitor Work In Own Area of Responsibility

Course length: 16 weeks

Times: Part time evenings, 3 hours a week 

Location: Gateshead College Skills Academy for Construction, NE11 0JL

Start dates: September and November 2024 TBC

This Skills Bootcamp is aimed at those who want to become a safeguarding lead within their organisation. It will increase the knowledge and awareness of the Prevent Duty and safeguarding, including online safety.

Course content includes:

• Prevent Duty, understanding why it exists and what your roles and responsibilities are in relation to it.
• Identify national policies and local systems that relate to safeguarding, know how to recognise signs of abuse or potential harm and know how to respond if abuse or harm is disclosed, suspected or alleged.
• Learners will also learn about the potential consequences of inappropriate or illegal online activity, how to reduce the risks posed online, and how to spot signs and behavioural changes that could cause concern.

Award on completion:

Level 3 Certificate in Understanding Safeguarding and Prevent

Course length: 16 weeks

Times: Part time evenings, 3 hours a week 

Location: Gateshead College Skills Academy for Construction, NE11 0JL

Start dates: September and November 2024 TBC

This Skills Bootcamp will provide you with the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills around supporting individuals with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

This course is for existing qualified teachers to upskill so they can support individuals with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in their classroom. The units offered within this bootcamp mirror those offered within the Learning Disabilities Pathway of the Health and Social Care Diplomas in England.

The revised Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Core Content Framework (CCF) – which all new entrants to the profession benefit from – has been designed around how to support all pupils to succeed, including those pupils identified within the four areas of need set out in the SEND code of practice.

Course content includes:

• Understand the context of supporting individuals with learning disabilities
• Understand how to support individuals with autistic spectrum conditions
• Understand physical disability.
• Understand positive risk-taking for individuals with disabilities

Award on completion:

NCFE CACHE Level 3 Award in Supporting Individuals with Learning Disabilities