Engage:

• Designed for the needs of the Entry 3/Level 1 learner in full colour, with a spread-based approach, and topics broken into clear, bite-sized chunks to retain learners’ attention.
• Lively activities, mini case studies and clear checklists and summaries help learners engage with - and remember - content.

Achieve:

• Covers 11 units of the Level 1 specification – enough for a Diploma –and 3 Units at Entry Level 3 – enough for an Award, so you can be confident your learners have the content they need to achieve their qualification.
• Edexcel’s own Assignment tips, written by BTEC experts, help learners to achieve their potential in assessments.
• Activities mapped to the assessment criteria in each unit, provide support and clear direction for learners, helping them to work towards the criteria.

Progress:

• Prepare your learners for employment with a focus on employability skills and definitions of key terms.
• Help your learners progress to BTEC Level 2 First by building their confidence with the style of BTEC qualifications.

Teaching Book

• Your copy of the Student Book, with tailored introduction notes to help you to get the most from BTEC’s own resources.

Resource Disk

• Save your planning time with schemes of work, unit introductions and delivery guidance – including advice on covering Functional Skills – to help you plan and prepare for lessons.
• Easy-to-use with the Student Book covering all the units from the textbook andwith clear references to the activities and content.
• Inspirational teaching ideas for each unit give you engaging ideas to get you started on each topic.

• Covers three mandatory and nine specialist units giving you the breadth cover the full diploma, and 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 understand and achieve pass, merit and distinction grades.
• 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.
• Assignment tips: Written by experts, unit-by-unit advice shows learners how to get the most from their BTEC course.
• Student focus: Straight-forward accessible language is used with short text chunks, to keep the content appropriate and engaging for all your students.

The Author Team

They are all experienced teachers of construction and have developed many educational resources and publications across a wide range of construction qualifications.

• 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.

• Offers the unit specification so you have everything you need in one place.
• Delivery plans that offer guidance and support for classroom delivery of each unit
• A bank of activity sheets – 15 per unit – that provide opportunities to develop practical skills, personal, learning and thinking skills, and functional skills within the context of construction.
• Invaluable assessment guidance will give teachers absolute peace of mind they have all the support they need to see their learners through assessment.
• Dedicated guidance on the Project, as well as suggestions for Project themes so teachers can help each learner get started on their Project.

• Offers the unit specification so you have everything you need in one place.
• Delivery plans that offer guidance and support for classroom delivery of each unit
• A bank of activity sheets – 15 per unit – that provide opportunities to develop practical skills, personal, learning and thinking skills, and functional skills within the context of construction.
• Invaluable assessment guidance will give teachers absolute peace of mind they have all the support they need to see their learners through assessment.
• Dedicated guidance on the Project, as well as suggestions for Project themes so teachers can help each learner get started on their Project.

• This full-colour accessible Student Book is written for Level 1 learners, and covers all the Principal Learning for the Foundation Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment.
• Functional Skills and Personal, learning and thinking skills are embedded throughout the book to ensure that learners develop these essential skills.
• Case studies are designed to help teachers bring the real world into the classroom to really engage students.

• This full-colour accessible Student Book is written for Level 1 learners, and covers all the Principal Learning for the Foundation Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment.
• Functional Skills and Personal, learning and thinking skills are embedded throughout the book to ensure that learners develop these essential skills.
• Case studies are designed to help teachers bring the real world into the classroom to really engage students.

• Follows a topic-based approach to place all concepts into real-world examples through a variety of stimulus material.
• Contains all the material for the Principal Learning of the Higher Diploma (Level 2) in one book and is clearly mapped to the Edexcel specification to make your life easier.
• Engaging magazine-inspired features help to bring learning alive and provide an opportunity to ground learning in real-life scenarios.
• Activities referenced to personal, learning and thinking skills (PLTS), functional skills and/or to the project ensure these important components are covered.
• Written by a team of authors who are experts in the Construction industry to give you absolute trust in the quality of the content.