Understand the Higher Level Teaching Assistant 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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