March 28, 2023
What is the difference between CAVA and TAQA?
If you’re looking into education or training qualifications, you have probably come across the terms CAVA and TAQA. You might have noticed them in job adverts and specifications or heard other professionals saying things like “I’m on a CAVA course” or “He’s going to get his TAQA soon”. And while we can understand why you […]
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March 10, 2023
How To Become a Lead IQA
If you want to become a Lead IQA, you’ll be happy to hear it is a highly-rewarding career that can provide significant opportunities for personal and professional development. But as with most rewarding careers, it won’t happen by accident and requires hard work, dedication and training to reach your goals. In this blog post, we’ll […]
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February 28, 2023
What can I do with a CAVA qualification?
Congratulations are in order if you’ve achieved your Level 3 CAVA Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement! You have taken a major step towards boosting your career and status in your education and training career. Now you have completed your CAVA course, it’s time to review what you can do with a CAVA qualification and decide […]
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February 16, 2023
5 Essential Skills for Teachers and Trainers
Like any activity in life, teaching or training adults comes with its own set of challenges. To overcome these, you’ll need the right skills to deal with them. Organising and teaching a course isn’t a case of just showing up and effortlessly turning out interesting, engaging and valuable lessons. Of course, great teachers make it […]
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February 10, 2023
EQA Visits: What to Expect
If you’re working at an organisation offering any sort of accredited qualifications, you are bound to experience an EQA visit at some point. Whether you are an IQA, a teacher or an assessor, you have likely heard people talking about EQA visits, often with a sense of fear. People discuss these visits as if they’re […]
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February 9, 2023
How To Correct Common Teaching Errors
At Carlton Training, we often receive enquiries about teaching errors and how to correct them. Correcting common teaching errors is necessary for creating an effective learning environment and ensuring students’ success, so our teaching experts have written a thorough guide on how to correct these errors so you can avoid them. The Role Of A […]
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February 6, 2023
12 Icebreaker Activities for Adults
Icebreaker activities aren’t something you think about when taking your training to become an adult teacher. If you’ve just passed your Level 3 AET, chances are you’ve spent most of your time on lesson planning and preparing for your new career. But now your first day of teaching is looming. You are prepared and ready […]
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January 10, 2023
What is an A1 Assessor Course?
An A1 assessor course is often used to describe a training course for people who want to become qualified assessors. The official title of the assessor qualification gained is “A1 Assess candidate performance using a range of methods”. Holders of an A1 assessor award typically have a broad background in assessing candidates through various methods. […]
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January 9, 2023
What is a CPD course?
CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development (or Continuous Professional Development), and it’s something that you are probably involved in, even if you don’t call it by that name! There are many reasons why you may take a CPD course, or take part in CPD in other ways throughout your professional career, such as: To meet […]
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December 21, 2022
Online Learning vs Traditional Learning
Online training has come a long way in recent years, indeed the uptake for online training, or e-learning, worldwide is shortly due to pass those of traditional face-to-face courses. So when looking at online learning vs traditional learning, how do they compare? To consider whether any training is truly worthwhile, we have to consider three […]
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