Work Based Learning

• Achieve your potential: Assessment activities in each unit give your students plenty of practice to deepen their knowledge and understanding, and grading tips for every activity help them to achieve the best possible grade.
• 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 your learners can make their 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.
• Extensive unit coverage: covering a wide range of popular optional units from the Performance and Excellence, Coaching, Development and Fitness and the Outdoor and Adventure pathways.

Author Team:

Mark Adams, Ray Barker, Wendy Davies, Adam Gledhill, Chris Lydon, Chris Mulligan, Alex Sergison, Louise Sutton and Nick Wilmot

All have combined experience of teaching, verifying, specification writing and authoring best-selling books. They have developed educational resources, publications and tutor training programmes and have worked hard to bring you a range of engaging and motivating resources for the BTEC 2010 specifications.

• Covers all the core units for the Performance and Excellence, and the Coaching, Development and Fitness pathways.
• Achieve your potential: Assessment activities in each unit give your students plenty of practice to deepen their knowledge and understanding, and grading tips for every activity help them to achieve the best possible grade.
• 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 your learners can make their 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.

Author Team:

Mark Adams, Ray Barker, Adam Gledhill, Chris Lydon, Chris Mulligan, Pam Phillippo and Louise Sutton

All have combined experience of teaching, verifying, specification writing and authoring best-selling books. They have developed educational resources, publications and tutor training programmes and have worked hard to bring you a range of engaging and motivating resources for the BTEC 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.
• Engage-Stimulate-Motivate with @t work : A rich bank of @t work resources puts videos, interactive activities and fully editable PowerPoints at your fingertips to motivate your learners, keep your lessons lively, and help you stay up to date with the latest news and views from the industry.
• It’s easy to update your VLE with BTEC resources: All schemes of work, lesson plans, activity sheets and @t work resources are stored on a FREE VLE disk in the Teaching Resource Pack, so you can transfer whatever you need onto your VLE in just a couple of easy steps.
• BTEC have teamed up with the Premier League: Providing you with video footage featuring the Tottenham Hotspur academy players, coach, and director, as well as former Premier League and international player Jon Goodman. Giving you inspirational and engaging materials to motivate your students to achieve. Watch a sample video here.

Author Team:

Mark Adams, Ray Barker, Wendy Davies, Adam Gledhill, Chris Lydon, Chris Mulligan, Pam Phillipo, Alex Sergison and Louise Sutton

All have 100 years' experience of teaching Physical Education and Sport in Schools and Colleges between them. The team has close links with Edexcel and combines verifying, specification writing and best selling authors.