Education and training services

Tender description

The Outstanding Teaching, Learning and Assessment (OTLA) programme draws together the ETF’s activity to support practitioners to improve and develop their practice. The 2 aims of the OTLA programme are to: 1) Improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment in the FE and training sector, and 2) Support increased professionalism for practitioners in the sector. OTLA is underpinned by the professional standards. The programme is made up of 4 different strands: — collaborative projects, — professional exchanges, — support, training and resources, and — practitioner research programme. This tender relates to delivery of work in the collaborative projects strand. The ETF would like to appoint a tenderer to deliver Phase 6 if the Outstanding, Teaching, Learning and Assessment (OTLA) Programme. OTLA Phase 6 will support the improvement of English teaching, learning and assessment. The collaborative projects should explore how practitioners can better develop learner’s literacy, reading and writing skills through their teaching or training practice. This could be through: 1) Innovative approaches, including using formative assessment and tracking data to enhance learner progress; 2) Programme planning and differentiation for mixed ability groups. Collaborative projects should be undertaken in a range of subject areas, which can include explicit English delivery, although we would encourage English practitioners to work with those in other subject areas.