Train to teach. Inspire to lead.
The Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training is the full professional teaching qualification for further education and skills. It is a serious commitment - and we built the support to match.
Level 5 Diploma in Education & Training
- 9 workshops and action learning sets
- Seven units, 120 credits
- Teaching practice in your own setting
- Tutor support from start to finish
Course fee
£1,499
Personal Passport Pro subscribers get 10% off.
Awarding body
Focus Awards
Level
Level 5 · 120 credits
Guided learning
400 hours
Assessment
Portfolio + observed practice
Taught
9 workshops
Why learn with us
Supported, practical and recognised
The full teaching qualification
The professional standard for teaching in FE, sixth forms, adult learning and work-based training.
You are not doing it alone
Nine workshops and action learning sets keep you connected to your tutor and to other trainee teachers.
Grounded in your practice
Action research and professional practice units are built around the learners you already teach.
What you will study
7 units, one clear journey
Focus Awards Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training · QRN 610/5281/4 · TQT 1200 · 120 credits.
- 1Unit 150 guided hours · 15 credits
Learners and learning
How people learn, and how to respond to the learners in front of you.
- 2Unit 250 guided hours · 15 credits
Teachers and teaching
Planning, delivering and evaluating effective teaching.
- 3Unit 350 guided hours · 15 credits
Teaching my subject
Subject-specific pedagogy for your specialist area.
- 4Unit 4100 guided hours · 30 credits
Professional practice
Your observed teaching practice, reflection and development.
- 5Unit 550 guided hours · 15 credits
Effective digital and online pedagogies
Teach well online and use technology with purpose.
- 6Unit 650 guided hours · 15 credits
Resources in a specialist area
Develop, use and organise resources for your subject.
- 7Unit 750 guided hours · 15 credits
Action research
Investigate a real question in your own practice.
See the full specification, learning outcomes and cohort dates →
For teachers and trainers ready to go further
For people teaching, or about to teach, in further education and skills who want the full professional qualification.
- FE lecturers
- Skills coaches
- Sixth form and adult tutors
- Work-based trainers
- Teach in FE colleges, sixth forms and adult learning services
- Deliver training in work-based and vocational settings
- Become a lecturer or skills coach
- Progress into curriculum leadership
- Become an Internal Quality Assurer (IQA)
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