How can teaching assistants (TAs) be specialist mathematics or science HLTAs without the basic qualification or GCSE?
In order to achieve HLTA status a candidate will have to demonstrate the ability to apply and acquire the subject knowledge required to support the teaching and learning of mathematics or science in the context in which they are working. A qualification such as GCSE may be one way of providing evidence of the acquisition of subject knowledge if this is the level appropriate to a candidate’s needs.
