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🚀 Introducing Aspire: Shaping the Future of Teaching 🚀 We’re excited to launch the Aspire website, a program dedicated to helping aspiring teachers build the readiness they need to successfully apply for teacher training and earn their QTS. Through Aspire, future educators gain valuable paid experience in schools as Teaching Assistants and Cover Supervisors—helping them confirm their passion for teaching while preparing them for the next step in their journey. Our monthly webinars provide a platform for meaningful, thought-provoking discussions that gently challenge candidates, ensuring their journey is enriching, authentic, and powerful. Alongside this, they gain access to a curated Padlet full of resources to support and extend their learning. For schools, it’s a win-win: you receive motivated, qualified candidates who are gaining real-world experience and preparing for their teaching careers—at no extra cost compared to regular TAs or cover supervisors. These candidates are dedicated and eager to take the next step toward obtaining their QTS. Aspire: Preparing the next generation of teachers to excel in teacher training and beyond. 🌐 Visit our website to learn more and get involved: https://lnkd.in/gPt7QDPN #TeacherTraining #FutureTeachers #Aspire

🚀 Introducing Aspire: Shaping the Future of Teaching 🚀 We’re excited to launch the Aspire website, a program dedicated to helping aspiring teachers build the readiness they need to successfully apply for teacher training and earn their QTS. Through Aspire, future educators gain valuable paid experience in schools as Teaching Assistants and Cover Supervisors—helping them confirm their passion for teaching while preparing them for the next step in their journey. Our monthly webinars provide a platform for meaningful, thought-provoking discussions that gently challenge candidates, ensuring their journey is enriching, authentic, and powerful. Alongside this, they gain access to a curated Padlet full of resources to support and extend their learning. For schools, it’s a win-win: you receive motivated, qualified candidates who are gaining real-world experience and preparing for their teaching careers—at no extra cost compared to regular TAs or cover supervisors. These candidates are dedicated and eager to take the next step toward obtaining their QTS. Aspire: Preparing the next generation of teachers to excel in teacher training and beyond. 🌐 Visit our website to learn more and get involved: https://lnkd.in/gPt7QDPN #TeacherTraining #FutureTeachers #Aspire

#Indiana takes another important step toward expanding personalized pathway opportunities that encourage student-centered learning with the CMETS iLab. Its also notable that one of their identified "system barriers" is "inflexible high school schedules...that limit apprentices' time outside of the school building." In many cases state policy dictates the time and the place of learning, and changes through state policy can be transformative in enabling initiatives like this one! https://lnkd.in/eDiEzjTk

AltSchool Africa has entered a milestone partnership with STC Higher Education, a leading tertiary institution in Malta. Under this partnership, AltSchoolers interested in furthering their studies can earn internationally accredited, globally recognised Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Maltese institution. I wrote about this partnership and how important it is to our mission here: https://lnkd.in/dx3x7g3p #Day9 #ThingsAbdullahiWrites

Enhancing TVET System for Economic Development Technical and Vocational Education Training which formerly included entrepreneurship for letter (E) is the only savior of our economy as a country and not for us alone but for most of the Sub-Saharan countries. The redefinition of TVET education from theoretical learning to the CBET, which is deemed practical, is the biggest milestone in rebranding and re-engineering the technical skills in our country. CBET training is the big sister of CBC education, which stands for competency-based Education and Training. The philosophy of CBET is to equip learners with more practical and hands-on skill sets. It advocates for a comprehensive skill learning system that prepares graduates and polishes them for the Industry, unlike the former one, which many stakeholders considered theoretical and less hands-on. This system focuses on exposing the learner to as many areas as possible during training and connecting the classroom work to the Industrial experience. It gives the learners opportunities to choose among the many career paths in all spheres of learning; learners have many areas to choose from and perfect. The system encourages mastering one component or one area of a given skill set and excelling in that particular line rather than being a jack-of-all-trades and mastering none. However, the crafters and brainchildren of this system with all the good wishes about a good curriculum and the outcome, they did not look at the challenges that come with the whole thing. Ostensibly, this system can only work well if there is deliberate goodwill from all the stakeholders. All the players must be assembled and their duties should be well stated to allow the proper implementation of the system. The collaboration between the Industry and the implementers of the system should be made deliberate and all players should foster the unity of purpose at work for provision of good technical and entrepreneurial skills. 

Western Governors University Accelerates Work-Based Learning Pathways, Acquires Craft Education "Craft Education is the leading education technology company focused on apprentice-based programs with a first-of-its-kind platform for establishing, monitoring, reporting and facilitating on-the-job training aligned with degree programs and work-ready skills. With this acquisition, WGU fast-tracks its ability to innovate and scale work-based curriculum and new student experience designs." https://lnkd.in/gT5b-mmY

Planet Diversity has a 100% pass rate for its functional skills courses. This is for ALL learners regardless of any additional needs. There are various options available - self-directed, live lessons (online or face-to-face) or a blended learning approach. ALL keeping within budget. The FE Weekly at the beginning of this year, noted that training providers continue to make a loss on the functional skills qualifications. Funding now matches the Adult Education Budget. Planet Diversity provides expert support well within this new allowance. AELP’s report, ‘Spelling it out, making it count’, used financial data from 11 training providers. It found that the average cost of delivering functional skills to apprentices was £911 per learner for English and £893 per learner for maths. For any organisation who would like to discuss available options, just get in touch. https://lnkd.in/es5k63su

AMCAT Employability test certificate

AMCAT Employability test certificate

AMCAT Employability test certificate