Posted on: May 19th 2022

Congratulations Karen!

Karen Hall 19.05 (4)Karen successfully completed 6 of our NCFE Level 2 distance learning courses as well as the City and Guilds Level 2 certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools.

It has been a pleasure to watch her confidence and knowledge grow from course to course and to see her career develop. 

Karen has always been happy to share her story, as a way of encouraging others to return to learning.

She found the convenience of the distance learning courses worked well and she would do her homework alongside her daughter.

Congratulations Karen from us all at Aspire Sussex!

 

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Karen Hall 19.05 (3)


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Do you need a qualification to achieve your dream job like Karen?

Karen has taken several of our Level 2 Certificate distance learning courses which lead her onto our Support Teaching and Learning in Schools (STLS) course. She is now a full time Teaching Assistant!

“I had been working as a Food Service Assistant in a school for 7 years when I was told I was great with the Special Needs pupils. I then volunteered to help them in class and I absolutely loved it! I needed qualifications to apply for a Learning Support Assistant role though and I had heard about Aspire Sussex’s Distance Learning courses, which I could do at home without any childcare problems. My girls and I did ‘our homework’ every evening and I passed my first course within 3 months. 19 months later, I have just started my fifth distance learning course as well as branching out to the STLS course and I can’t see me ever wanting to stop learning!

After taking the STLS course, I can hardly recognise myself from the person I was 19 months ago. The support I had from the school and my assessor and the understanding I have gained from the courses have given me belief in myself. My family are delighted to see me aiming for a better-paid job and my younger daughter always found settling to homework difficult but having me do my work beside her has motivated her. In school, course knowledge gives me courage to offer my opinion.

When I started the STLS course I had already taken three Distance Learning courses and I found I could express myself better in assignments, relating the volunteering work I was doing with pupils to the understanding my courses gave me. The more courses I take, the more I learn and the more the pieces of the Special Needs jigsaw fit together.

Karen Hall 19.05 (5)I am pleased to say that I have been offered a full time Teaching Assistant position at the school I am at, starting in September 2020.”

Her tutor Margaret (pictured left with Karen) says, “Over the past 19 months, I saw Karen grow in confidence and became the outstanding student she is today; at our first meeting, Karen was almost apologetic for daring to enrol on a course! Her daughters are in awe of their mum and during her STLS in-school assessment, I saw a confident Karen supporting a variety of children with learning difficulties. Colleagues told me about the valuable work she was doing as she built relationships with vulnerable students and how her feedback to staff enabled new pupil targets to be set and achieved."

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