Moving on in your support staff role can seem like a daunting prospect, when faced with the huge choice of career paths, and the confusing array of qualifications and training needed for each of those paths. Which is the right route to take and what steps can you take to get there? Five 'in class' primary support staff ask our panel of experts what career options are open to them if they want to move on, for example, from being teaching assistants to HLTA status, or from cover supervisor to achieving qualified teacher status. The panel have a range of expertise. Lyn Sawicki is the Standards and Qualification consultant to the TDA, Richard Hallett manages the Centre of Vocational Excellence for support staff training and Lynn Holmes is an NVQ coordinator and GMB Union Learning Rep, who has moved up the career ladder having started as a cleaner.

Video Series: Primary Support Staff
Release Date 2006