The complete unit guide for the Certificate in Education and Training: Understanding Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in Education and Traini - Paperback

by Nabeel Zaidi (Author)

This textbook provides you with all the up-to-date information and guidance you need to pass first time. It focuses systematically on each of the assessment criteria in the unit and provides a suggested structure for drafting responses to meet the requirements of the unit's assessment criteria.

As a prospective or new lecturer / trainer / tutor / assessor, how do you ensure

1.that you are clear about what is expected of you in the role of lecturer, trainer, tutor, or assessor?

2.that you are aware of the key legislation that applies to your existing or proposed role?

3.that you know how to identify and meet individual learners' needs?

4.that equality and diversity and appropriate behaviour are promoted within a safe learning environment?

5.that you understand the limits of your professional responsibilities and when to refer learners to other professionals?

This textbook addresses each of these questions, with supporting research and links to additional resources or materials as needed, while remaining tightly focused on the unit's assessment criteria.

There are opportunities to consider multiple perspectives, with a range of practical resources that are relevant to teaching, training, assessing, tutoring, quality assurance and educational management. This book is part of a series of books by the same author.

If you are new to teaching then this book is an ideal companion. It provides the information and guidance needed to complete the first mandatory unit of the Certificate in Education and Training (CET). It is mapped directly to each of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the unit across all awarding organisations.

The key benefits to the reader of this textbook are as follows:

It is written by an experienced practitioner with extensive experience across the further education and skills sector, occupying a variety of roles;

It adopts a practical approach to topics, reflecting current practice in the sector;

It includes detailed guidance on structuring effective responses to assessment tasks;

It is clearly written and easy to understand;

It fully addresses each of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria in a systematic way, which makes completing the unit and assessments in a short timeframe achievable;

It provides a broader range of information and examples, which should prove useful when preparing to enter the sector, such as attending job interviews for teaching related posts.

Author Biography

Nabeel has been in the further education sector since 1996, occupying various lecturing, middle and senior management and consultancy roles, including working with several awarding organisations, undertaking quality assurance assignments, delivering professional training to the education sector on equality and diversity and the Ofsted common inspection framework and developing and delivering on undergraduate and post-graduate business management programmes and teaching qualifications. He is also a Reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and runs his own college and consultancy company.

Nabeel holds various academic and professional qualifications and titles, including being a qualified Barrister, an MBA in Educational Management (University of Leicester), a Certificate in Education (Institute of Education), a Post-Graduate Diploma in Professional Legal Skills (Inns of Court School of Law / City University), a Master's degree in Law (University College London), a degree in Law (Queen Mary's College, University of London), and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management Studies.