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It can vary from organisation to organisation, however if you are going to be teaching further education courses (post-16 education, i.e. adult education) then you will need to have at least the Preparing to Teach in Lifelong Learning (PTLLS) as it is now a minimum requirement, or at least gain it within the first year (The Further Education Teachers’ Qualifications (England) Regulations 2007). Professional membership into a Professional teaching organisation may be required (eg IfL).

Then there are vendor trainer qualifications like the MCT (from Microsoft for MOS/MCTS/MCITP), IC3 authorized instructor (for IC3), the CTT+ (Comptia's own vendor neutral technical trainer cert), etc. However the MCT and IC3 authorized instructor require you to have been delivering training courses for X amount of time or already have the CTT+.

Other tips...

1. Once you have gain the PTTLS (promuned "Petals") and have X amount of time actually teaching then look into gaining your Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTTLS, pronouned "Kettles"), you can then start the process to gain your Associate Teacher, Learning & Skills (ATLS) status from the IfL.

2. You can do the PTTLS and CTTLS at level 3 or 4, 3 being easier. However as level 3 is easier there are more people with it; if you can go for it, go for level 4 - but in the grand scheme of things does it really bother you?

3. One thing I was looking at was becoming a NVQ Assessor, however to order to gain the qualification you have to be already working as a NVQ Assessor. But there is a unit (1 out of 4) that can be gain without having to be a NVQ Assessor, the "Understanding the principles and practices of assessment" unit. This may be something that interests you.

4. As always things, eg regulations change, make sure that you keep up to date. The teaching field is a more regulated field than IT.

It is a nice field to get into, I've been doing this on/off for about 3+ years in total (in a FE/HE College, and now with a University) part-time

Good luck with it.

 

Yeah, the D32/33 was replaced by the A1/A2 which has now been replaced with the Level 3 QCF NVQ Assessor Certificate and Level 4 QCF IQA Internal Verifier Certificate.

However those with the D32/D33 are still ok to assess