The Essential Guide to Teaching New Apprenticeships

Practical advice for apprenticeship teachers and trainers. ′How to′ support on:
  • understanding the ways in which standards-based apprenticeships are different
  • mapping to the Level 4 Assessor/Coach apprenticeship standard
  • apating teaching and training approaches for new standards-based apprenticeships
  • working with all of the other people involved with apprenticeships
  • effective ongoing assessment for vocational learners
  • vocational coaching, progress monitoring and effective target setting
  • planning for the continuing development of professional skills 
  • delivering a high-quality apprenticeship programme
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Enhancing Learning through Technology in Lifelong Learning

This book provides an essential resource for both new and experienced teachers, trainers and lecturers looking to harness the benefits of technology in their approaches to teaching, learning and assessment. Those working across the Lifelong Learning Sector, including schools and universities, face increasing pressures in demonstrating their purposeful engagement with technology to provide outstanding teaching and learning, and professional standards place a clear emphasis on the demonstrable use of emerging technology. 

Underpinned by a theoretical and critical discussion, the book presents a rationale for the use of technology in today's 21st century classrooms as teaching practitioners prepare themselves for the arrival of technologically mature and digitally literate 21st century learners with high expectations of their learning journey. 

It offers 25 activities that are presented in a user-friendly and accessible format, illustrated with case studies from across the sector to bring the ideas to life. Each example demonstrates how freely and easily accessible technologies can be used to create engaging, interactive and learner centric lessons which promote retention, achievement and the development of digital literacies. 

"This welcome book fills a real need within lifelong learning literature, through providing an exploration of the different ICT technologies available to students and teachers in the sector that combines the practical and applicable with the theoretical and reflective. Through the course of this book, the authors introduce and analyse a number of key theoretical themes, such as digital wisdom and digital literacy, providing an accessible entry point to rich and complex ideas... I cannot think of another book on this subject that has managed to accomplish this.”
  • Dr Jonathan Tummons, Teesside University, UK
Teaching and Training Vocational Learners 

The book, linked to the learning and development units, provides an accessible and user-friendly guide for tutors in training and those more experienced colleagues teaching vocational learners across the diverse breadth of the lifelong learning sector, including further education and sixth form colleges, adult and community learning, work-based learning and prison education.

Following a debate on the vocational education landscape in the UK, the book presents a range of innovative and meaningful practical strategies together with excellent examples and exemplars to support the vocational education practitioner to strive to be outstanding in their practice.

"Teaching and Training Vocational Learners” by Steve Ingle and Vicky Duckworth is an excellent reference book for even the seasoned vocational teacher/trainer. For too long, we have tried (often unsuccessfully) to adapt strategies meant for academic teaching, to create appropriate learning environments for vocational courses. It is refreshing to see a well-informed, well-researched textbook that begins by clarifying the differences between academic and vocational teaching."  J. Mahil 

 
Studying Education

This book provides an excellent introduction to what education is. The diverse chapters help the reader explore the different ways of looking at education, the challenges it faces and how to study it at university and beyond. 

Steve has contributed two chapters in this publication: 
  • What is vocational learning? 
  • Technology in the classroom
Teaching Tomorrow: Creative Approaches by Today's Trainees

Albert Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Thus it is, through our imagination which transcends our knowledge, that the creative process begins. 

This book captures the core of creativity in the contemporary teaching and learning domain. By acknowledging the wide range of subjects taught in the Primary, Secondary and PCET Education Sectors, readers are provided with the opportunity to explore the rich variety of creative and innovative approaches which can be applied to the teaching of ordinary and mundane aspects of any discipline. This book acts as a foundation upon which originality can be nourished, by revealing how today’s imagination, knowledge and skills can be combined in order to enhance the teaching and learning practices for tomorrow’s educational experience. 

Sample lesson plans are available on the accompanying CD-ROM. 
BTEC First Travel and Tourism: Student Book

This Student Book supports the Edexcel BTEC Level 2 First Travel and Tourism QCF specification 
  • Covers three mandatory and ten optional units, giving you the breadth to cover the full diploma, and tailor the course to your learners’ needs and interests.
  • Achieve your potential: Assessment activities in each unit give your students plenty of practice to deepen their knowledge and understanding, and grading tips for every activity help them achieve the best possible grade.
  • Edexcel’s Assignment tips: Written by experts in the BTEC team, there’s invaluable unit-by-unit advice on how to get the most from your BTEC course. 
  • Put yourself in the professionals’ shoes: WorkSpace case studies take your learners into the real world of work, showing them how they can apply their knowledge in a real-life context.
  • Advice from former students:  shows current students how to make their BTEC experience a stepping stone to success.
BTEC First Hospitality: Student Book

  • Covers the full Diploma including in-depth coverage of the four mandatory units and 11 most popular optional units, giving you the breadth to tailor the course to your learners’ needs and interests.
  • Assessment activities give practice for all grading criteria for the units covered, with Edexcel’s own grading tips – written and reviewed by BTEC experts – to help learners achieve their potential.
  • WorkSpace case studies throughout reflect the work-related nature of the qualification so that learners are more able to put theory into practice in real-world settings.
  • Assignment tips written and verified by BTEC experts offer invaluable unit-by-unit advice on how learners can get the most from their BTEC course.
BTEC Tech Award in Travel and Tourism Student Book

Written by an expert author team of BTEC teachers and professions, this Student Book includes:
  • full coverage of all three components, structured to match the specification content
  • 1 hour lessons to help with your planning and delivery
  • plenty of case studies and examples that students can relate to
  • ​additional features including key terms, 'did you know' sections and plenty of assessment practice