Professional Teaching Qualifications
Preparing to Teach in the Life Long Learning
Sector
PTLLS stands for "Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning
Sector". Essentially anyone who delivers learning to one or more
individuals will be covered by this regulation, whether the
teaching is delivered in a classroom or at business premises. It
will cover full time teachers delivering lessons in a college and
at the same time will cover trainers and assessors providing
courses and underpinning knowledge for work and vocational
qualifications. The intention with PTLLS is to have a "one size
fits all" qualification which will give all qualified teachers a
substantive qualification that allows them to pass the necessary
threshold to teach.
The hope is that the PTLLS qualification will provide candidates
with an opportunity to gain accreditation from a one-unit
qualification that bestows upon them the necessary training to
allow them to enter the teaching or training profession, gaining as
they go a level 3 or 4 qualification and taking the first step
towards the QTLS (Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills)
qualification.
