The rubric you build in this module is in your workshop on Monday.
Sector-specific CPD for trainers who already know the trade. You work scenarios from your sector — plumbing, precision, electrical, welding — with the standards your awarding body uses, and finish with a printable rubric and a CPD log entry. Module 1 is free.
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See what Module 1 looks like in your workshop.
Pick your trade. Make one real decision from the workshop floor. We'll show you the exact rubric Module 1 builds — matched to your country's assessor and your awarding body's portfolio system.
Where's your assessment practice right now?
One row is filled in so you can see the standard — the rest is what you build in Module 1. Your rubric is yours to keep.
Mester credentials are not a PGCE, PDG, AEVO, or teaching licence — they're for practising professionals improving without stopping work.
Hover the cycle to pause. Click a phase to inspect.
You're an expert in your trade. But when did you last update how you teach it?
"Initial teacher education for VET teachers is weaker in developing the required pedagogical skills than training for general education teachers."
— OECD, Teachers and Leaders in Vocational Education and Training (2021), based on TALIS 2018 data.
That gap doesn't close with experience alone. Mester is built to close it — one practical module at a time.
A session plan ready for your next group. Not a PDF to file away.
Pick your trade to see how each module shapes a real session plan for your sector and your learners.
Workshop Training is live in early access today. The other 10 sectors ship September 2026. The previews below show the depth and structure each session plan arrives with — not the live availability.
Pick your trade above. Each session plan is sector-specific — real standards, real rubrics, real materials your learners would actually use.
Forces recall before reinforcement — the mechanism with the largest effect size in learning science.
Roediger & Karpicke (2006)Scenarios set in your own workshop, not generic examples. Practice becomes meaningful when it mirrors real decisions.
Ericsson (1993) · Kapur (2008)Before/after evidence of changed thinking — the step that converts training into classroom behaviour.
Schön (1983)Halfway through a 3-hour practical. Three of eight learners have been doing it wrong for 45 minutes — and you missed it. What now?
After Kapur (2008) · productive failureBuilt for trainers who learned the trade before they taught it.
A welding instructor. An automotive lecturer. A mechatronics trainer. A construction assessor. An HVAC or electrical tutor. A solar installer turned teacher. A smart-building specialist. A digital-skills coordinator — and every trade trainer in between.
Three phases. One thing you can use Monday.
1. Learn
Before any instruction, you write how you'd handle a real training challenge. Your answer is saved. It becomes evidence. You see the scenario before you see the solution — that gap is deliberate.
2. Practice
Knowledge checks and branching scenarios where you make the call as a trainer — then get a structured pedagogical review of why it worked, or what you'd change.
3. Deliver
You build the rubric, session plan, or template — printable, and yours. The review checks the thing that matters: would a second trainer reading it reach the same verdict?
The Field Log you build in Module 1 — five workshop days, four error patterns to spot (E, H, G, T), your first competency criteria drafted by Friday. You print it and carry it into the bay on Monday. You don't file it away.
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An EQF-aligned certificate. Verifiable in seconds.
Every completed course earns you a digitally signed, verifiable Open Badge 3.0 — one your institution can inspect online, add to your Europass profile, and accept as CPD evidence. It proves what you can do, not just that you showed up.
Not a PGCE. Not a PDG. Not an AEVO. Not a national teaching licence. If you already hold one, this builds on it — verifiable evidence that your teaching practice is current, mapped to EQF Levels 4–5.
Not a PGCE. Not a PDG. Not an AEVO. Not a national teaching licence. A verifiable, EQF-aligned, sector-specific record of current competence — the kind that holds up in CPD portfolios, inspection evidence files, and employer appraisals.
Framework mapping: EQF Levels 4–5 ≈ RQF Levels 3–5 (UK) · MBO niveau 3–4 & SBB kwalificatiedossiers (NL) · DQR-Niveau 4–5 (DE). Evidence maps to Ofsted EIF and equivalent national inspection frameworks.
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Module 1 is free and needs no approval — give us an email and it opens. Early access is what you apply for: Modules 2–5 unlock weekly with a written delay-on-us clause, free throughout, withdraw anytime. We review applications weekly.
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You spent years becoming good at your trade.
Now learn how to teach it properly.
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