[senco-forum] TA minimum qualifications

Hi Emma

  We are going to ask people to have at least a Level 2 qualification in literacy and numeracy in the future.  This is the equivilant of a C at GCSE.  You do have to be careful because you may miss some candidates who turn out to be excellent - many women of 45 plus took accounts instead of maths, for instance.  We have encouraged our existing TAs to take the Certificate of Competence (from memory) in Adult Literacy and in Adult Numeracy because these are named as Level 2 qualifications in the HLTA info and really improved the skills and confidence of some of our TAs.  It is very satisfying when someone with no qualifications at all gets their first exam success at the age of 50+!!

  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall

ehutchinson <ehutchinson at hillingdongrid.org> wrote:
  Hello all, wonder if anyone can help?

We are just about to advertise for and hopefully employ two
new teaching assistants. However, we have had some
'questionable' experiences with teaching assistants (by way
of their academid ability) in the past and were hoping this
time to include some minimum qualifications as a requirement
in the advert. 
Has anyone out there ever done this when advertising a TA
post. If so, what kind of qualifications did you ask for? 
I have had a look in the archives as I know there has been
much information about employing TAs in the past, but
couldn't find anything about basic qualifications
requirements (but did find loads of ideas for interviews)

Any help would be appreciated.
Emma

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Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall