Achieving Your PTLLS Award

Book excerpt: This highly accessible book comprehensively covers the assessment requirements for the ‘Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector’ (PTLLS) award. All new lecturers in the sector must now gain their PTLLS qualification in their first year of teaching and this book aims to help them achieve this. The book focuses on the five learning outcomes of the PTLLS Award: Understand own role, responsibilities and boundaries of role in relation to teaching Understand appropriate teaching and learning approaches in the specialist area Demonstrate session planning skills Understand how to deliver inclusive sessions which motivate learners Understand the different assessment methods and the need for record keeping