Step up to HLTA: Develop Your Monitoring & Assessing Skills

Once you're leading the lesson rather than supporting it, the hardest part is often knowing whether it's working. A few hands go up with the right answer, the worksheet gets finished, and it's easy to press on while half the room is lost.

As an HLTA you need ways to see what everyone is thinking, and this course gives you plenty. Pose, pause, pounce, bounce opens up a class discussion beyond the usual hands. Four corners and diamond nine card sorts get children moving and deciding, and sentence starters make their reasoning visible. When a pupil is stuck, a ladder of support (prompt first, then a clue, then modelling) helps you give the least help needed rather than the answer.

You'll also get clear on formative and summative assessment, and run mid-lesson learning stops so pupils check their own work and a partner's while there's still time to fix it.