The Endorsed Trainer Programme is open to teaching and learning staff who have either remission or the capacity within their current role to drive and embed the WorldSkills UK pedagogical methodologies from within. This in turn, will raise standards of assessment and the competition culture in the organisation through the ability to tailor CPD to their specific requirements creating an even greater impact and influence change.

The Endorsed Trainer Programme currently includes three of the educator focused CPD modules, both equally important to the overall skills development of learners and apprentices:

  • Competence to Excellence
  • Assessment for Excellence
  • Benchmarking for Excellence.

The programme is an opportunity for successful applicants to build on their existing high standards of teaching and training expertise to drive quality improvement by contributing towards an educator’s continuous professional development in UK FE Education and skills sector.

Applicants are chosen by the Centre Lead and apply individually with the support of a senior leader within their organisation. The organisation must be registered with the WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence.

Upon selection, each Endorsed Trainer will undertake a robust training process to gain a comprehensive understanding of the delivery formats of the specialist programme as well as creating a tailored Monthly Activity Plan. Following this event, all Endorsed Trainers will receive ongoing support and invites to best practice events facilitated by WorldSkills UK Coaches to aid in delivery of each World Class Teacher Training module.

 

Timeline

Information for candidates

The ideal candidate for this role:

  • is an educator, quality or Centre Lead and/ or teaching and learning staff
  • has remission or the capacity within their role to disseminate the world class teacher training modules
  • has previous knowledge of the Centre of Excellence
  • is supported internally within their organisation to execute the plan of activity and deliver CPD to 30 educators per year

By the end of this programme, participants will be able to:

  • understand, structure and deliver course content, establishing the key learning points for each World Class Teacher Training module
  • engage and inspire peers in an online or face-to-face learning environment using a variety of methods
  • devise and deploy a Monthly Activity Plan agreed with the organisation’s Senior Leadership Team and the Centre Lead
  • to identify educator learning needs to develop opportunity areas and drive quality improvement
  • provide evidence in the form of a case study which shows impact

Impact on the organisation

Endorsed trainers will be provided with the knowledge, insights and skills enabling them to:

  • raise performance of learners, achieving higher qualification achievement rates
  • raise standards of teaching
  • introduce new techniques and practices that are based on global best practice
  • act as catalysts for raising standards across technical education in their own organisations

Commitment required from the applicant:

  • attend one of the induction sessions
  • complete all prep work and reflection required prior to the residential
  • attend the Endorsed Trainer residential in full
  • commitment to launching and driving forward competition culture and embedding the WorldSkills UK pedagogical practices internally through staff CPD to meet the needs of the organisation
  • participate in networking and best practice events as well as attending 1:1 mentor sessions with the coaches

Commitment required from the organisation:

  • ensure full approval and support is granted from a member of the Senior Leadership Team
  • collaborate with the applicant to create a sustainable, measurable and successful Monthly Activity Plan
  • commit to supporting the applicant with capacity and remission to execute the Monthly Activity Plan and embedding the WorldSkills UK pedagogy.

Application process

Information and dates will be released soon for the new cohort.

Contact details

centreofexcellence@worldskillsuk.org

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