AIM Qualifications Level 1 Award In Personal Potential

These qualifications allow tutors to carry out an initial diagnostic assessment of learners’ soft skills, attitudes and their Learning Intelligence, identified as requirements to enable motivation and engagement. This can then support them to become effective learners, as well as addressing personal development and employability skills.

This is relevant to different types of learners, including:
• Those gifted and talented learners who may struggle with emotional intelligence can build skills to enable risk taking, develop their own initiative in exploring learning and in forming their own opinions and ideas.
• Those learners who demonstrate emotional and behavioural difficulties which affect their potential to learn can build self-confidence and self-awareness of appropriate attitudes and self –expression.
• Learners in transition, who are embarking on changes or decision points, such as curriculum choices, change of learning provider or work related learning, can build skills to develop their personal resilience.

A learning environment is created in which learners take part in a series of prescribed activities, based on game and challenge, which build learning points developing key values of communication, trust, cooperation, problem solving and team-work. Learners are able to self – assess through an integrated review process and recognise their own Learning Intelligence and capacity to test and stretch themselves.

Learners achieve their Award using five specific areas:

Communication Skills (Emotional Intelligence): Developing skills to explore communication pathways
and challenge understanding/meaning or intent. Learning to listen to feedback and not to take things
personally which is an important part of retaining an open mind about learning

Dealing with Challenge (Emotional Resilience): Problem solving and managing change through making personal adjustments

Learning and Exploring Skills: Creating the desire to Learn and Explore, the curiosity to learn. Being able to complete , review and recognise achievements of self and others

Trust in Others: Recognising the role of others, particularly in team or group situations where trust is required to complete tasks effectively

Working with Others: Accepting of different roles (in a learning environment) as well as in problem solving situations.

To achieve this qualification learners must complete all the essential components (see Qualification Specification).