Understand the Higher Level Teaching Assistant role
This video from Guide Education looks at ‘Undertaking and implementing CPD. Watch this film and make notes of any areas of CPD that you could undertake in your role.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Professional standards for HLTAs’ from UNISON and Skills for Schools
- ‘Higher Level Teaching Assistant’ Job Description from Oaklands School and Children’s Centre.
- ‘Teaching assistants: The right ethos, good CPD and effective deployment’ on the Headteacher Update website
- ‘Assisting the assistants: CPD for teaching assistants’ from the Teaching Expertise website
- ‘Teaching assistant guide: Classroom collaboration’ from the Supply Well website
- ‘The nine Belbin Team Roles’ on the Belbin website.
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- The HLTA National Assessment Partnership has produced this resource ‘Gaining Higher Level Teaching Assistant Status: Preparation for assessment handbook’. Click to read the ‘Guidance to the standards’.
- The National Education Union website contains this article on ‘HLTAs and cover supervision’.
- This article called ‘Why your HLTAs may need more CPD’ is from the Headteacher website.
- The CPD UK website includes this article on ‘CPD for Teaching Assistants and Support Staff in Schools’ for you to read.
- Click to read ‘Teachers and TAs: how to create the perfect partnership’ from the Guardian newspaper which looks at how close collaboration, or teamwork, is vital to get best results.
- This article by Dennis Sparks is called ‘Strong teams, strong schools’ and looks at the benefits of good teamwork within a school.
- Think And Challenge
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