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Getting Ready to Teach the NEW Pearson BTEC Nationals in Children’s Play, Learning and Developmentfrom 2016

This will be an interactive taster of all aspects of the programme so lots to get through!

Opportunities for delegates to ask questions are scheduled throughout the day

By the end of the day, you will have a sufficient understanding of the programme to plan its

implementation

GRTT NEW Pearson BTEC Nationals in Children’s Play, Learning and Development1

Introduction

Aims and Objectives


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• Explore the structures, content and assessment in the new Pearson BTEC Level 3 Nationals and how this impacts on your existing curriculum.

• Discuss approaches to teaching and learning.

• Plan curriculum delivery using a range of different approaches.

• Devise an employer engagement strategy that meets requirements.

• Explore the new QA Model and how to plan for its requirements

• Have an opportunity to network with other practitioners.

Why make changes?

• Reforms to 16-19 qualifications and performance tables

• Introduction of Tech Level and Applied General

qualifications

• Statutory inclusion of external assessment in all Tech Level qualifications NOT just BTEC’s

• Statutory reduction to the number of retakes for the exam (Unit 1)


What has changed?

1. Programme restructured to remove 30hr units (so Units renamed but total content remains the same)

2. External task(s) which is set and marked by Pearson

3. Retake now allowed for external task

4. Compensation rules introduced to recognise learner achievement more fairly

5. Resubmission deadline lengthened to 15 days for internal assessment

6. External exam has been restructured to simplify it and make it more accessible to learners


What programme should you choose?


Group Activity on choosing the right size programme for your learners:

Title: BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate in Children’s Play, Learning and Development

360 GLH

Title: BTEC Level 3 National Foundation Diploma in Children’s Play, Learning and Development

540 GLH

Title: BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Children’s Play, Learning and Development (Early Years Educator)

720 GLH

Title: BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Children’sPlay, Learning and Development (Early Years Educator)

1080 GLH

Ethical recruitment

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• GCSE English and Mathematics Needed for University

Proven to dramatically increase success in completing course

Employers can count leaner in level 3 ratios

Government recommendation to work with children

• Alternatives Apprenticeship

NVQ qualification e.g. Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Diploma in Children's Learning and Development (Early Years Educator) (QCF)

GRTT NEW Pearson BTEC Nationals in Children’s Play, Learning and Development

BTEC Nationals in Children’s Play, Learning and Development

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Students apply learning

through a range of

practical assessments

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Students apply learning in practical assessments

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Types of assessment

Internal assessment and quality assurance

External assessment (tasks and exams)

Synoptic assessment



Types of assessment

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Set and marked by Format Students demonstrate

Assignments

You. Verified by Pearson

Resubmission time limit is now 15 working days (increased from 10 working days).

• Practical tasks

• Work-related scenarios

• Tailored to local needs

Application of knowledge and skills

Individually or in teams

Tasks

Pearson • Practical tasks

• Everyday scenarios

• Controlled conditions

• Some pre-released information

Application of learning to common workplace or HE scenarios

Exams

Pearson • Practical questions

• Written responses

• Controlled conditions

Confidence with recalling and applying technical information and fundamental knowledge

Range of assessment styles allows learners to showcase their skills and application of

knowledge, so they can progress to higher education and/or employment.


ASSESS & TRACKFREE SUPPORT

Authorised assignment briefs

Sample marked learner work

Sample assessment materials

Sample marked learner work for selected internal and external units to help you understand the expectations of the standard for each grade.

Samples tests and tasks for the externally assessed units, provided for centres to exemplify the type of questions likely to be examined in these units.

AABs for mandatory units available on website from March and for optional units by June/July.


Tasks

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●Students demonstrate confidence applying knowledge to everyday scenarios

●All tasks set and marked by Pearson

●Controlled conditions

●One re-take allowed.

Unit 2: Development of Children’s Communication, Literacy and Numeracy Skills

How long: 6 hours (over two weeks)

Creating the task: Material supplied at beginning of the task time.

Output: A report recommending improvements to an early years setting’s speech, communication, language, literacy and numeracy.

Unit 4: Research Project

How long: 24 hours research (over six weeks), 3 hours write up (non-continuous).

Creating the task: Research article and instructions supplied at the beginning of the six week research period.

Output: Workbook with set questions to structure the answers supplied at beginning of three hour write-up period.


Group tasks


Group activities looking at the external assessment:

•Positives and negatives of external assessment

•Preparing learners for the ‘Task’

How do you feel about external assessment



Exam

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Unit 1: Children’s Development.

How long: 1h 30 mins

Unseen – taken in exam conditions (can be in a classroom).

Output: Completed exam paper

●Theory and practice linked

●Short questions based on small scenarios.

●Marks awarded for theory and application


Command Word Glossary


• The Command Word Glossary guides you and your students the specific expectations of each command word used within questions in the assessment.

• The Glossary document defines each command word - their meaning is reflected in how we’ve structured the corresponding mark schemes.

• It is a resource you can use for exam preparation it supports students by ensuring consistency and clarity in the assessment questions, so students know how to respond.

Command

word

Definition

Analyse Examine in detail in order to discover the meaning or essential

features of a theme, topic or situation

Break something down into its component parts/factors,

considering each methodically and in detail

Examine how the factors/parts are related and how each one

contribute to the topic/situation

Define Provide the meaning of something, usually a term. May

sometimes be replaced by ‘What (is the meaning of/is meant

by…)

Describe Provide a factual account of something e.g. a process.

Statements in the response need to be linked to form a logical

sequence but do not need to include a justification or reason.

Discuss • Establish the issue/situation/problem

• Explore all aspects/sides of an issue/situation/argument

• Investigate the issue/situation through reasoning

• Provide a balanced, discursive viewpoint

Evaluate • Measure the value or success of something

• Explore strengths, weaknesses and alternatives

• Review information and evidence, then bring it together to form

a substantiated judgement/conclusion

Explain Identify a point/issue, and justify/reason or exemplify the point

identified. The answer must contain some element of expansion,

normally reasoning/justification.

Give/State/

Name

All of these command words are really synonyms. They generally all

require recall of one or more pieces of information.

Identify Requires (key) information to be selected from a given

stimulus/resource.

Group task


Group activity looking at the exam

Group task - Quiz


1. How many different command words appear in Section A of the exam?

2. What is the maximum mark for one part of any question in section A?

3. What is the maximum number of parts in any question in section A?

4. What are the command words only found in section B?

5. How much time, in minutes, should a candidate spend onquestion 5?

Tie breaker

Identify the different command words in the exam and rank them order of difficulty (easiest first)

First correct answer gets the PRIZE!


Questions


Put them on a post it, we’ll answer as

many as we can

Pause for thought … any questions on what you’ve heard so far?

Group activity


Group activity looking at internal assessment


Ensuring fair representation of achievement

From 2016 compensation has been introduced.

Please refer to section 2 and Section 9 of each qualification to understand the compensation available.


Compensation


Quality Assurance - confidence in the standard

What that could look like in practice:


Understand the standard

Annual standardisation

training for Programme

team

Apply the standard

Support includes

Authorised Assignment

Briefs

Assess to the standard

Standards Verifier samples

assessment decisions

Maintain the standard

Annual visit to support Quality

Nominee

(Quality Management

Review)

PROPOSAL – UNDER REVIEW

Questions


Put them on a post it, we’ll look at them

shortly



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Planning To Implement


PLAN FREE RESOURCES

Skills for learning and work activity sheets

Delivery plans

Sample assessment materials Authorised

assignment briefs

Delivery guides

The Introduction to your delivery guide includes guidance around how to structure your course and make the right choice for your learners.

An example of how your qualification might be delivered over one or two years, showings key timings in your course.

Activity sheets to help you plan the induction of your course and introduce learners to BTEC.

Assignment briefs produced by SVs –they can be used by centres as they are or can be adapted for use.

Sample assessments, complete with mark schemes, to help you plan how to prepare learners for the external assessments.

Group activity


Group activity looking at planning to implement

Employer engagement strategy


• Diploma and Extended Diploma require use of the Personal Evidence Portfolio (PEP)

• Extended Certificate and Foundations Diploma do not require use of the PEP but it is recommended as a ‘tool’

• Health and safety and safeguarding is a two way process

• Elements of internal assessment assume experience has been gained in a work place setting

• Visits by learners to specialist environments

• Employers as guest speakers

Employer Engagement Activity Quiz


‘Employer Engagement Strategy activity’

1. Who will administer the work placements?A The teacher, B A work placement administrator, C Other

2. When will the learners be DRB checked?A Before enrolment, B During induction, C After induction but before work place is assigned, D Other

3. Who will find and Vet the work placements?A The Learner B The Teacher, C A work place administrator, D Other

4. Who will check that work placement complies with Health and Safety?A The teacher, B A work placement administrator, C Other

5. Will the Employer be involved in course delivery?A Yes B No

Delivery plan


n.b. Summative assessment (SA) is the assessment activity

encompassed in an assignment brief for the internally assessed

units and follows the teaching time allocated in the plan.

Questions


Put them on a post it, we’ll look at them

shortly



In Summary

Key dates for external and internal assessments

Employer engagement

Teaching

Revision

Assessment


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Your course toolkit



Combines qualifications, resources and training to enable progression

•Get to know your course: Specification, SAMs,

Guides, Delivery plans

•Recruit and prepare learners: Learner profiles,

skills for learning and work activity sheets

•Expert help and support: Subject Advisors

•Course planning: myBTEC

course builder and planning tool, course planners, curriculum models, authorized assignment briefs, GRTT events

•Resources for teaching:Delivery guides, schemes of Work, skills for learning and work activity sheets

•Training: Face-to-face

training events with focus on troubleshooting eg delivery of externally-assessed units

• Guidance: QA Guides, SV

and Quality Review visit, assessment and assignment writing, standardisation training

• Examples of the standard: Authorised

assignment briefs, specimen papers and tasks, sample marked learner work

• Templates and tools:

myBTEC assignment briefs and progress tracking

• Reports and feedback: PSV reports, examiner reports

•Training: Launch events get

ready to teach events

•Collaborative networks: Support centres with employer involvement

• ActiveLearn Digital Service -supports lesson planning

• Student Books• ActiveLearn Digital Service -

teaching resources, independent e-learning materials

• Revision Guides and Workbooks

• ActiveLearn Digital Service –e-learning with tracking data

• Student Books with assessment tips and self assessment activities

• Revision Guides / Workbooks

• Professional Development courses: FE, schools, ‘new to’, ‘experienced’, ‘curriculum options and delivery’, ‘employer engagement’, assessment

PLAN TEACH ASSESS & TRACK DEVELOP

The myBTEC Assessment Process

The colours show all the manually completed forms

The yellow shows myBTEC timesaving digitisation


http://qualifications.pearson.com/en/support/support-topics/assessment-and-verification/btec-assess-verify-forms.html

https://mybtec.pearson.com/MyBTEC?sptoken=852c2170-26a9-4a00-8cf6-d46a807b4320

myBTEC digitises assessment planning and tracking.

✓ It’s linked to Pearson systems so already contains rules of combination, Assessment Criteria, Authorised Assignment Briefs, grading calculations etc

✓ It’s a tool for centre staff, it’s not a learner’s e-portfolio yet

✓ It is purely internal assessment, not exams

✓ It can be used alongside eportfolio and tracking


TEACHFREE RESOUCES

Schemes of work

Skills for learning and work activity sheets

Delivery guidesUnit-by-unit sections contain guidance on how to approach the unit overall and guidance around the assessment.

The Getting started table includes ideas and activities for how to deliver the topics in each learning aim.

How do I deliver the course? A breakdown of the GLH with suggestions for activities, links to other units and ideas for assessment preparation.

Activity sheets that develop learner’s skills in specific skills in a BTEC context. Sheets contain learning plus activities.

Children’s Play, Learning and Development(Early Years Educator)

Overview of resources

Student BookISBN 9781292133621 – £30 – July 2016Covers Units 1-11

•Offers full support for all mandatory units for the Extended Certificate, Foundation Diploma, Diploma and Extended Diploma (all sizes of qualification).

•Includes ActiveBook.

Other versions•Kindle ed 9781292133577– £24•ActiveBook ed 9781292133560– £20•Institutional ActiveBook subscriptions (priced by number of students)

Revise Series

Support for externally assessed units

Revision Guide + ActiveBook£17.99 (before institutional discount of 50%) Sep 2016

Revision Workbook £17.99 (before schools discount of 50%) Sep 2016

Aims and Objectives - Outcomes


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• Explore the structures, content and assessment in the new Pearson BTEC Level 3 Nationals and how this impacts on your existing curriculum.

• Discuss approaches to teaching and learning.

• Plan curriculum delivery using a range of different approaches.

• Devise an employer engagement strategy that meets requirements.

• Explore the new QA Model and how to plan for its requirements

• Have an opportunity to network with other practitioners.

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Specifications

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