HLTA Success

Higher Level Teaching Assistants provide a win-win situation not only for themselves, but also the teaching staff and the school itself. This all impacts on what is most important – the pupils, their attainment and self-confidence.

Success is seen across a wide-range of schools, subjects and situations. The following provides short summaries of case studies from across both the London and SE regions with the complete case study available for download.

Primary Case Study
Award-winning Godwin Junior School in Newham has pupils from a variety of multicultural backgrounds, with 73% of pupils with English as their second language. TAs are involved in every area of the school. At Godwin School, the HLTA’s role includes, supporting classroom teachers, mentoring other TAs, lesson planning and preparation and out of school activities.
Godwin Junior Case study

Special School Case Study
Meadow High School in London caters for children with special educational needs, from the ages of 11-19. The school employs 22 teaching assistant and has 2 HLTAs to help meet the needs of their pupils. HLTAs are able to deliver parts of the curriculum directed by the teacher, but unsupervised.
Meadow High School Case study

Secondary School Case Study
George Abbot School is a mixed comprehensive school in Guildford with 1,900 pupils. Three of the school’s teaching assistants have achieved HLTA status, all with different specialist skills. All Assistant Year Heads are now HLTAs. This allows the Year Heads to concentrate on teaching and learning whilst the HLTA focuses more on student welfare issues.
George Abbot Case study

Local Authority Case Study
Barnet LA have over 60 TAs who have achieved the status and they have embedded HLTAs into the workforce remodeling strategy. Barnet LA believe that the basis for HLTA status is to possess a good range of experiences such as working with individuals and classes, as well as being involved in other programmes.
Local Authority Case study