Continuing Professional Development (CPD )

As an Assessor, End Point Assessor or even an Internal Quality Assurer (IQA) your Continuing Professional Development (CPD ) is a vital part of your career progression. Here you will find our blogs on how to enhance your own CPD.

The Benefits of Online CPD

Training is a key aspect of any job, and in order to improve within your respective field, having a CPD record is a very important part of this. Once you have qualified as an Assessor, there are many job prospects and opportunities out there. Through CPD you can enhance the skills and knowledge you have, […]

What You Can Do After a Level 3 AET Course

The Level 3 Award in Education and Training (AET) is the perfect qualification to undertake if you are looking to either teach or train students. It is designed to give you an introduction into teaching, delving into the core roles and responsibilities. You will learn all about lesson planning and delivering these to your students. […]

9 Ways to Keep Your CPD Record Up To Date

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development. As an Assessor, it is very important to keep your CPD record up to date. CPD is all about maintaining and improving your skills and knowledge through training courses and qualifications. A CPD record is usually kept in the form of a portfolio, and should include goals and objectives […]

The Benefits of Completing Your IQA Qualification

IQA (Internal Quality Assurance) is an essential aspect of the education and training sector. Becoming an Assessor will give you many job prospects, but if you are looking for more career progression, an IQA may be the perfect role for you. There are three main benefits of becoming an IQA which we will run through […]

Continuing Professional Development

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is extremely important as an assessor as it allows you to maintain and improve your skills and knowledge. By completing regular training courses and adding them to your CPD record, it will help you maintain high standards. Often, assessors are so focused on helping their learners through their courses that keeping […]

Shadowing Experienced Assessors as a Newly Qualified Assessor

After all that hard work, grit and determination you have put into becoming an NVQ Assessor, the exciting time has come and you start looking for a new job. However, you are soon deflated when you realise lots of job applications require you to have high levels of experience within the field. Fear not, we […]

Keeping Your CPD Up-to-Date as an Assessor

Whether you are a newly qualified assessor or someone who has been assessing ever since it was the D32/33 or A1 Assessor Award; Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is important. The irony is, sometimes NVQ Assessors find that because they are constantly engaged with their learners and helping them to develop their careers, they themselves don’t […]

6 Ways for an Inexperienced Assessor to Gain Experience

You’re a newly trained NVQ Assessor. You go onto the job sites, find an ideal role, and get hit with that ultra-frustrating requirement: Proven experience needed. How do you gain experience as an inexperienced assessor, if proven experience is always necessary? It’s an impossible condition! Fortunately, there are ways of gaining experience without having worked […]

What is TEA and why is it important to me?

TEA stands for Technology Enhanced Assessment, and it’s an essential part of modern learning. In short, TEA is the blanket term for any type of technology that is used as part of the assessment process. As an NVQ Assessor, you will need to be familiar with TEA, as it may very well form a part […]

How to Write a CPD Plan

As a professional in any sector, it’s important to keep up-to-date with your career development. This is why you’ll need to make a CPD plan. (Continuing Professional Development). Whilst it does take time, CPD Plans are great ways to identify and develop your skills in order to reach your career goals. What do I want/need […]