Achieving Your PTLLS Award: A Practical Guide to Successful Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector

This highly accessible book comprehensively covers the new assessment requirements for the Award in Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS), which all new lecturers in the sector must gain in their first year of teaching. This new edition also includes a wealth of interactive reader activities, which help to connect the content of the book to practical experience.

This edition has been extensively revised and updated, to cover the full range of units in the new PTLLS Award. It covers the following areas:

• Roles, responsibilities and relationships in lifelong learning
• Inclusive learning and teaching approaches
• Learning and development for individuals and groups
• Principles and practice of assessment

New entrants and unqualified teachers and trainers in the lifelong learning sector will find this book extremely helpful. It will also challenge those who already have lecturing, teaching, training or assessing experience, enhancing the skills they already possess and providing stimulus for reflection. It provides a useful introductory text for anyone embarking on a full or part time PGCE or Certificate in Education program in Post Compulsory Education (PCE). The book also provides underpinning knowledge for the complementary Learning and Development units.

Jim Gould has over forty years of experience in teaching within the schools, Adult Education and Further Education sectors. He has managed Teacher Education departments in colleges in Surrey and Hampshire and although now semi-retired remains active in the delivery of Certificate in Education and BA (Hons) Education programmes at Farnborough College of Technology. Jim has extensive experience in curriculum development  and has acted in a consultancy role in a variety of validation events. He supports Blackpool Football Club.