Learning and Development NVQ at Level 4

The Learning and Development NVQ at Level 4 will be suitable for you if you have direct contact with learners and work with them in the learning environment. You will also be designing, evaluating and improving learning programmes, managing the contributions of others and contributing to learning within an organisation.

Your work situation must give you the opportunity to be involved in a range of learning support, facilitation, design, evaluative and management related tasks, which may include:

• working with individuals to identify their learning aims and agree learning programmes
• designing and developing learning programmes
• preparing resources to support learning
• managing the contribution of other people to the learning process
• carrying out presentations, demonstrations, instruction and coaching
• evaluating and improving programmes
• supporting and advising individual learners
• candidate assessment
• providing basic skills training.

To achieve the qualification the candidate must complete twelve units in total. These are drawn from eight mandatory units and four optional units.

Manadatory Units

• L4 Design learning programmes
  • L4.1 Choose options for meeting learning needs
  • L4.2 Design learning programmes for learners
• L5 Agree learning programmes with learners
  • L5.1 Negotiate learning programmes with learners
  • L5.2 Review learning programmes and agree changes with learners
• L8 Manage the contribution of other people to the learning process
  • L8.1 Agree roles and resources with contributors
  • L8.2 Co-ordinate the activities of contributors
  • L8.3 Monitor and review how effective contributors are
• L9 Create a climate that promotes learning
  • L9.1 Develop a good relationship with learners
  • L9.2 Support learners
  • L9.3 Promote anti-discriminatory practice
• L17 Evaluate and improve learning and development programmes
  • L17.1 Choosing how to evaluate programmes
  • L17.2 Analyse information to improve learning and development programmes
  • L17.3 Make improvements to learning and development programmes
• G2 Contribute to the development of learning within the organisation
  • G2.1 Ensure the contribution of learning to the organisation
  • G2.2 Contribute to the learning strategies and processes of the organisation
  • G2.3 Assist the organisation to sustain learning processes
• G3 Evaluate and develop own practice
  • G3.1 Evaluate own practice
  • G3.2 Identify self-development needs

Plus either:

• L2 Identify the learning and development needs of the organisation
  • L2.1 Review how capable the whole organisation is of meeting its development needs
  • L2.2 Develop a learning and development programme for the organisation

Or

• L3 Identify individual learning aims and programmes
  • L3.1 Review learning and development achievements and opportunities
  • L3.2 Identify and agree learning aims and programmes

Optional Units

Choose any four (4)

• L7 Prepare and develop resources to support learning
  • L7.1 Develop learning materials
  • L7.2 Choose materials to support learning
• L13 Enable group learning
  • L13.1 Manage group dynamics
  • L13.2 Enable the group to learn together
• L14 Support learners by mentoring in the workplace
  • L14.1 Plan the mentoring process
  • L14.2 Set up and maintain the mentoring relationship
  • L14.3 Give mentoring support
• L15 Support and advise individual learners
  • L15.1 Give individual learners guidance to help them plan their learning
  • L15.2 Advise and support individual learners in managing their own learning
• L16 Monitor and review progress with learners
  • L16.1 Review progress with learners
• L18 Respond to changes in learning and development
  • L18.1 Research the ways people learn
  • L18.2 Develop learning and training methods
  • L18.3 Test and change proposed training and development methods
• L19 Provide learning and development in international settings
  • L19.1 Identify the things that influence international learning and development
  • L19.2 Design learning and development programmes for international settings
  • L19.3 Produce learning and development materials and support for international settings
  • L19.4 Deliver training internationally
• L21 Plan how to provide basic skills in the workplace
  • L21.1 Persuade people that basic skills are important to the organisation
  • L21.2 Identify the needs for basic skills within the organisation
• L22 Introduce training for basic skills in the workplace
  • L22.1 Introduce programmes for delivering basic skills in the workplace
  • L22.2 Introduce learning support for people being trained in basic skills
• A1 Assess candidates using a range of methods
  • A1.1 Develop plans for assessing competence with candidates
  • A1.2 Judge evidence against criteria to make assessment decisions
  • A1.3 Provide feedback and support to candidates on assessment decisions
  • A1.4 Contribute to the internal quality assurance process
• A2 Assess candidates’ performance through observation
  • A2.1 Agree and review plans for assessing candidates’ performance
  • A2.2 Assess candidates’ performance against the agreed standards
  • A2.3 Assess candidates’ knowledge against the agreed standards
  • A2.4 Make an assessment decision and provide feedback
• V1 Conduct internal quality assurance of the assessment process
  • V1.1 Carry out and evaluate internal assessment and quality assurance systems
  • V1.2 Support assessors
  • V1.3 Monitor the quality of assessors’ performance
  • V1.4 Meet external quality assurance requirements