Professional Values & Practices

Concentrates on the more theoretical aspects of the Higher Level Teaching Assistant role: professionalism, relationships, statutory frameworks and knowing your limits. It offers guidance and support on fulfilling the standards and succeeding both inside and outside the classroom. Professional Values and Practice concentrates on the more theoretical aspects of the HLTA role: professionalism, relationships, statutory frameworks and knowing your limits. It offers guidance and support on fulfilling the standards and succeeding both inside and outside of the classroom. This book provides: real-life case studies that put the theory behind the standards into a whole-school context practical activities that convey how the standards can be used in the classroom guidance on the school-based aspects of the training and assessment advice on the difference between the learning and teaching standards for newly qualified teachers and HLTAs. This book is complemented by a companion volume, Learning and Teaching, which underpins the practical teaching skills required of teaching assistants at this level.