Pearson Level 1 and below September 2024 newsletter
Hello and welcome to the Pearson Level 1 and below newsletter for September 2024 covering all things below level 2 including Level 1 Intro, Entry Level, BTEC Workskills and BTEC Personal Growth and Wellbeing.
Hope you are all looking forward with excitement to the new term, meeting new and returning students and getting down to some brilliant learning doing what you do best. We hope you managed to get some rest and had a relaxing August.
New Resources
New Term new resources! We are pleased to announce we now have available to you an exemplar assignment brief for every available unit across the entire Entry 3 suite! As usual please feel free to write your own assignment briefs or adapt these to suit your needs moving forwards.
We hope you find these useful. Please note they are exemplar assignment briefs and not authorised assignment briefs which some of will be familiar with from other qualifications.
We also have some sample learner work for all qualifications across the suite. We have had numerous requests throughout the year for exemplar samples, and we have now added a number of these across BTEC Workskills, Personal Growth and Wellbeing, Entry, and Level 1 Intro.
To discover these resources please visit the relevant webpage for the qualification you are interested in. If the particular unit you are looking for isn’t there you can still use the exemplars as a guide to the level for assessment purposes.
We hope you enjoy these new additions.
Remember our standardisation packs are available for use during the year. These can be found in our YouTube training channel.
The work to go with these packs can be found in the comments. The standardisation packs are available for Entry/Level 1 and Workskills/Personal Growth and Wellbeing.
On Demand Training
We have made our very popular live event for BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing into an on demand recording. So if you couldn’t attend you can now attend this valuable and useful training!
Session 1 Developing Effective Provision (33:45mins)
Session 2 Developing Effective Provision (32:48mins)
We hope you enjoy using these videos to develop an effective provision in your centre.
Online Training Events
To support you in assessing learner work effectively we are pleased to announce our two SSV’s and expert trainers Paul Cliff and Katie Ordonez will be running a one-hour session where they will take you through methods of meeting the criteria and how to assess work.
We know a number of centres will find this extremely useful and hope you will be able to join us. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions after the event.
The event for BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing in assessing effectively will be on 14 November 3:30pm - 4:30pm.
The event for BTEC Entry and Level 1 Intro in assessing effectively will be on 6 November 4:00pm -5:00pm
Register for Assessing BTEC Level 1 Intro qualifications effectively in your classroom
New Content for August on the Skills Channel
Please save our playlist on YouTube for the latest Teaching and Learning Skills Video.
Our latest video is about Teaching Dyslexic Students.
Often in the Level 1 and Entry Classroom dyslexic learners face a variety of challenges. In this video we discuss how to support dyslexic students in the classroom and consider the different practical strategies which can be used in the classroom to support these students
You can watch the skills video if you are interested on YouTube
Strategies for Teaching Students who are Dyslexic (8:08mins)
Monthly Blog
This month’s blog is all about behavioural, emotional and social difficulties in the classroom.
In this blog we discuss how to support students with various difficulties in terms of behavioural, emotional or social difficulties and offer suggestions as to how to develop effective strategies to support these learners.
Behavioural, Emotional, and Social Difficulties in the Classroom: Strategies to Support Learners
We hope the new term gets off to a flying start!
With best wishes
Kelly Adams
Product Manager, Level 1, Entry Level, BTEC Workskills and Personal Growth and Wellbeing