Education is vital. But there’s more to education than just lessons and exams – education is about personal development, gaining important social skills, stimulating thought, and learning the skills to lead a healthy, happy life.
These Apprenticeships deal with all these things, from organising youth activities and supporting teachers to training and developing others in the workplace.
This Advanced Apprenticeship is about helping people learn new skills and improve their existing ones so that they can do their jobs more effectively.
Some trainers are employed within an organisation to run training programmes for new recruits, or to assess the needs of existing staff and work with them to develop their skills. There are also consultancy companies that offer specialised training programmes, such as computer skills or management techniques.
Direct training and support targets people with a specific training need. This type of training teaches clients how to do something, and then supports the learning process until the client is confident enough to do it independently.
On this Advanced Apprenticeship, you’ll choose between learning and development or direct training and support. On either side, you could be training people or helping out with administration (training companies are just like any other business, with phones to be answered and bookings to be made). Your area of expertise will depend on your employer – but it would be sensible to go for a specialism that interests you. Whether working one-to-one or with a big group of people, you’ll need confidence, patience and creativity.
This Apprenticeship is about providing support in the classroom. After all, teachers aren’t the only ones who make a difference to learning in schools. Learning support staff, such as teaching assistants or cover supervisors, play a vital role in today’s classrooms by making sure students get the most out of their lessons.
They work with teachers, carry out duties like lesson preparation, and work with small groups or individuals, allowing the teacher to concentrate on teaching the class. Some learning support staff specialise in areas like music or special needs.
As an apprentice, you’ll work under the close supervision of a class teacher. Your duties will vary depending on how the teachers you work with plan their lessons and handle day-to-day classroom activities – however, you could find yourself supervising arts and crafts activities, helping with outings, or reading to the class.
The Advanced Apprenticeship adds more responsibility to the role. You could help plan, carry out and evaluate a wide range of learning activities. You’ll work both alongside the teacher to support classroom activities, and alone with individuals or groups of students. It’s a good stepping-stone to a foundation degree or Higher Level Teaching Assistant training.
This Apprenticeship is about helping young people fulfil their potential through personal and social development. This is about providing young people with challenges and new experiences, but allowing them to be creative, active and have fun – all part of an informal education that helps young people to develop their own voice and identity.
As an apprentice in this area, no two days of work will be the same. Every young person has a unique situation, and so you could be doing all sorts: offering counselling and support; developing projects that tackle issues like bullying; or organising activities like sports and drama. You’ll need to come up with creative ways to reach young people, and be able to build relationships with them.
There’s an administrative side to youth work as well. You might help manage volunteers or part-time staff, help apply for grants, keep records of your work, and network with other professionals including social workers, teachers and probation officers.
At the end of your Apprenticeship, you’ll be a youth support worker and in a good position to take the next step in your career as a professional youth worker, including a degree which most employers will support you in doing on a part time basis.
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