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Step Up to the Role of Higher Level Teaching Assistant

Move from supporting learning to leading it, with the planning, assessment and classroom skills a higher level teaching assistant needs.

  • 88 minutes
  • 1.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate
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About this course

As a teaching assistant you've probably spent lessons darting from table to table, or with a queue of children waiting for your help. As an HLTA you're the one planning the learning, and sometimes directing other adults in the room.

This course follows the HLTA professional standards and makes each one practical. You'll learn to write an objective about the learning rather than the task ("write a letter" isn't one). You'll plan what your own role in an activity will be, and check the whole class rather than the few hands that go up. There's a clear model for giving a pupil support: start with the least help and add more only when it's needed, so they don't come to depend on you.

Directing a TA you used to work alongside can feel awkward. You'll leave knowing how to plan their time so it makes a difference.

Modules

17 modules
  1. 1Planning – format and purpose7 min
  2. 2What is the learning?6 min
  3. 3Your role in learning activities6 min
  4. 4Structuring activities4 min
  5. 5Including everyone5 min
  6. 6Preparing resources4 min
  7. 7Monitoring responses9 min
  8. 8Modifying approaches6 min
  9. 9Focussed support4 min
  10. 10Feedback6 min
  11. 11Assessment techniques6 min
  12. 12Positive behaviour6 min
  13. 13Challenging equality of opportunity4 min
  14. 14Advancing the learning3 min
  15. 15Using ICT3 min
  16. 16Keeping learners safe4 min
  17. 17Directing other adults5 min

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