The tasks

Tasks 1–3 require you to outline and evaluate your experiences of working within everyday
school classroom routines: first with an individual pupil, second with a small group, and third
with a whole class.

Task 4 gives you an opportunity to look at five situations or events that provide evidence for
standards not already fully covered in your first three tasks. These usually relate to your wider
professional experiences and responsibilities, for example:
• working with pupils, teachers and other adults inside and outside the classroom
• helping to supervise pupils in the playground
• assisting in educational visits, and
• participating in professional meetings and working parties.

Once all the tasks have been completed, you should have provided evidence for all of the standards.
You should also have identified the source of supporting evidence held in school – either
documentary evidence or witness testimony.
You should start to think about potential situations/events for task 4 at the same time as planning
your first three tasks. It is important that you have made provisional decisions about these
situations/events so that these can be reviewed later on in the preparation process. From the outset,
then, you should be keeping an eye open for situations that you could potentially use.

Supporting evidence
You will need to provide evidence to support your assessment tasks, though this should be generated
through normal work activity and should be directly related to the tasks.
Your provider of preparation will help you to identify the range of documentary evidence that is
permissible, such as:
• samples of pupils’ work
• lesson plans
• assessment sheets
• reports
• planning sheets
• case studies
• certificates for training
• letters/cards of endorsement/thanks
• witness statements
• observation notes
• meeting agendas/minutes/notes
• classroom resources
• audits of resources.
It is important to bear in mind that any documentary evidence you provide is for the purpose of
assuring the assessor that you meet the HLTA standards.
Under normal circumstances, you are likely to find it easier if your chosen activities are relatively fresh
in your mind. It is important to bear in mind that the evidence will be reviewed by the assessor on
the school visit and you may be asked about it in more detail. The evidence can, of course, be based
on your current work, but it may also be retrospective. If one or more tasks are based on previous
work or experience, it should normally fall within the past 12 months. The reason for permitting you
to draw upon evidence over the previous 12 months is that some relevant activities with which you
are involved may be seasonal or annual, such as school trips. Bear in mind that you must have
evidence to support a past activity; and, if the evidence includes the oral (or written) testimony of
a teacher, it follows that that teacher should still be available for corroboration if required.


See relevant threads for a break down on tasks.

Thanks for that - it was interesting to see what was involved; I remember a colleague doing the HLTA course when I first started but didn't take too much notice of it at the time as I was trying to find my feet and she didn't really talk about it much!

Out of interest, can you cross-reference/use as evidence anything that you have used for the NVQ 2 or 3?

You can use anything you have done as long as its within the past 12 months of you starting HLTA. So just cross reference to your certificates and specific units covered.

Thanks, Babyboo!