Work Based Learning

• Covers all mandatory and specialists units for the certificate in the Construction and the Built Environment pathway, and all the mandatory units for the award in all the pathways, giving you the breadth to tailor the course to your learners’ needs and interests.
• Achieve your potential: Each unit contains assessment activities, with grading advice and extension tips, giving your students all the practice and guidance they need, to achieve the best possible grade they can.
• Put yourself in the professionals’ shoes: WorkSpace case studies take your learners into the real world of work, showing them how they can apply their knowledge in a real-life context.
• Advice from former students on how to make your learners’ BTEC experience a stepping stone to success.
• Edexcel’s Assignment tips: Written by experts in the BTEC team, there’s invaluable unit-by-unit advice on how to get the most from your BTEC course.
• Student focus: Straight-forward accessible language is used with short text chunks, keeping content engaging for learners.

Simon Topliss and Mike Hurst

They bring a wealth of experience to their writing. They have expertise of verifying, specification writing, teaching and developming resources and publications across Construction qualifications and bring you a wide range of engaging and motivating BTEC resources for the 2010 specifications.

• Save planning time: Schemes of work and lesson plans help you make the most of your planning time — use them as they stand or edit them to suit your needs.
• Inspirational lesson ideas: A variety of activities for use with assignments or as a starter stimulus for group discussion to support and stretch your learners. Photocopy them as many times as you need.
• It’s easy to update your VLE with BTEC resources: All schemes of work, lesson plans, activity sheets and PowerPoint are stored on a FREE VLE disk, so you can transfer whatever you need onto your VLE in just a couple of easy steps.

Simon Topliss and Mike Hurst

They bring a wealth of experience to their writing. They have expertise in verifying, specification writing, teaching and developing resources and publications across Construction qualifications and bring you a range of engaging and motivating BTEC resources for the 2010 specifications.