Making the Most of Your Teaching Assistant
Making the Most of Your Teaching Assistant

Author: Sue Cunningham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0415457211

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Teaching assistants play an increasingly important role in schools. But how do you know that they are being effective in supporting children's achievement and enjoyment and helping the school to meet its aims? Too often, a TA is seen merely as a 'minder' - another adult in the classroom to keep a particular child, or group of children out of the teacher's hair: when in fact, they can be much, much more.This is a handbook for every SENCO and teacher responsible for managing TAs/ support assistants. It provides guidance and practical support in deploying, training and monitoring the effectiveness of TAs so that they fulfil their potential as a valuable resource

Raider's Peril
Raider's Peril

Author: Twinkl Originals

Publisher: Twinkl

Published: 2021-03-31

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1838190694

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Katka's heart pumped against her ribs… battles like this were what Raider's Peril was all about. Eleven-year-old Katka feels most at home when she is not being Katka. By day, she attends school like the rest of her friends, but by night, Catanna Brittlestar adventures around the White Desert in search of prestige and precious gems, with her loyal guild in tow. Then, the lines between her two worlds begin to blur – Katka thought Raider’s Peril was just a game, but some players are raiding for real... Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).

Key Issues for Teaching Assistants
Key Issues for Teaching Assistants

Author: Gill Richards

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-10-30

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 113407879X

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Teaching Assistants are increasingly relied upon to provide for children who experience difficulties in learning. Key Issues for Teaching Assistants is an essential companion for any Teaching Assistant who wants to understand more about inclusion and diversity in today's classrooms. While focussing particularly on the diverse roles of teaching assistants in supporting inclusive education, this book will be invaluable for all those involved in the development of inclusive learning and teaching. This highly accessible resource explores the values and the possible contradictions in policies and beliefs, enabling Teaching Assistants to develop a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles of inclusive education. Contributions from leading experts in the field consider common classroom issues such as: inclusion and special needs dealing with hard-to-reach parents tackling bullying and supporting those bullied boys, girls and the different ways they achieve being the class 'TA' not 'PA'. Each chapter contains an overview of topical debates, current research and initiatives, emphasising inclusive approaches and the importance of understanding the perspectives of children, regardless of their difference. Useful questions for reflection and a helpful list of suggested further reading material are also provided. Teaching Assistants, whether in practice, or as part of their study, will find this book an indispensable resource.

Working Effectively With Your Teaching Assistant
Working Effectively With Your Teaching Assistant

Author: Sara Alston

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-02-02

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1472992547

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From Sara Alston, co-author of The Inclusive Classroom, comes a new book supporting primary teachers to work more effectively with their teaching assistants to promote children's learning. Specifically focused for early career teachers, this book provides valuable support for managing this vital but potentially challenging relationship. Working Effectively With Your Teaching Assistant supports teachers in maintaining classroom relationships, including working with the expert or inexperienced TA. It explains: - different TA roles, including the role of the classroom TA or learning support assistant, the special needs assistant and 1:1 TA - different forms of intervention, including pre- and over-learning and the importance of ensuring that all children access quality first teaching - how to work collaboratively, including ways of sharing planning and feedback, differentiation strategies, promoting independence and how to support each other beyond the classroom. Featuring quotes from TAs about their classroom experience and what would help them, plus solutions for when things don't go to plan, this book will help primary teachers to have a significant impact on learning, while saving themselves time and reducing stress.

Teaching the Last Backpack Generation
Teaching the Last Backpack Generation

Author: Zachary Walker

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1506310028

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Let mobile devices transform teaching and learning Don’t just know how to use mobile technology. Know how to use it to transform learning. This refreshingly easy-to-use workbook shows educators how to make mobile devices a natural part of their classrooms by optimizing technology, no matter what the content. Discover: practical mobile device management skills such as how to project and use devices as a whiteboard and tools to capture student responses. fun strategies students will love such as teaching vocabulary using text speak and slang or using a digital assistant (like Siri) instead of writing. helpful resources to enhance professional learning.

The Teaching Assistant's Guide
The Teaching Assistant's Guide

Author: Michelle Lowe

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-08-21

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1134282133

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This textbook, designed to meet the needs of students on the teaching assistant foundation degree, provides an accessible overview of the teaching assistant's role, incorporating practical tasks that will challenge students to reflect on and improve their day-to-day practice. Set within a wider educational context, and full of thoroughly grounded advice throughout, this book includes: personal professional development - helping teaching assistants to understand their role and their workplace growth, development and learning - introducing the basic theories human development and learning behaviour management - exploring strategies that encourage and support appropriate behaviour today's curriculum and how children learn literacy, maths, science and technology understanding inclusive education, exploring access, participation and additional needs for specific groups of young people. With activities, task lists, discussion points, ideas, summary points and notes on further reading, this textbook will be the essential companion for all foundation degree students, as well as a useful handbook for teaching assistants in practice.

Teaching Assistant's Handbook for Level 2
Teaching Assistant's Handbook for Level 2

Author: Teena Kamen

Publisher: Hodder Education

Published: 2012-03-30

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1444170406

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This textbook will be the perfect companion to you if you are taking a qualification in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools at level 2, whether that is the Award in Support Work in Schools, Certificate in Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools, or Certificate in Supporting the Wider Curriculum. Teaching Assistant's Handbook for Level 2, offers you a comprehensive and practical guide to supporting the development of children and young people in a variety of educational settings, including primary, secondary and special schools as well as extended schools. The tasks included will develop your personal and professional skill as well as key tasks which will contribute to your assesment. This new edition in updated in line with the revisions made to the specification following the implementation of the Qualifications and Curriculum Framework in 2010, and now mirrors the structure of the units that make up the various Level 2 qualifications.

Practical Tips for Teaching Assistants
Practical Tips for Teaching Assistants

Author: Susan Bentham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-05-17

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1134257007

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Packed full of practical suggestions, tips, advice and up-to-date factual information, this book provides a trouble-shooting guide to help teaching assistants deal with a wide variety of classroom situations. Issues and dilemmas confronted in the book include: who’s who in the school self esteem how to use individual learning styles to support students and those with special needs dealing with unacceptable behaviour coping with the job and personal development. Whether read from cover to cover or used as a quick reference tool for looking up specific concerns, this is an essential book for all teaching assistants in primary, secondary and special needs schools, those starting out, and teaching assistants enrolled on training programmes such as NVQ 2, NVQ 3 and the higher level teaching assistant's award.

The Teaching Assistant's Guide to Dyspraxia
The Teaching Assistant's Guide to Dyspraxia

Author: Geoff Brookes

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2007-09-25

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 144110089X

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This practical guide encourages teaching assistants to reflect on their practice and to put into effect strategies which will increase and improve support for dyspraxic children. Written by an experienced educator, each chapter provides teaching assistants with a range of activities to learn from.

The Teaching Assistant's Guide to Effective Interaction
The Teaching Assistant's Guide to Effective Interaction

Author: Paula Bosanquet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-30

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 100039025X

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This second edition of The Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Effective Interaction is the definitive guide to teaching assistant-pupil interaction, fully updated with examples from schools that have implemented techniques from the first edition. An invaluable professional development tool for classroom support staff and the teachers who work with them, this new edition answers the need for specific, practical guidance on the role of the teaching assistant. This practical and accessible guide sets out a role for teaching assistants that focuses on developing pupils’ independence and ownership of learning, with key learning points now summarised in each chapter. Based on a classroom-tested framework and covering the main contexts in which teaching assistants work, it includes a range of strategies and reflective activities to help improve the support provided to pupils in everyday settings. This book sets out successful strategies for: Responding to additional needs Understanding the principles behind effective classroom talk Carefully scaffolding pupils’ learning Delivering intervention programmes The Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Effective Interaction is an essential read for all teaching assistants and will also be of interest to school leaders, SENCOs and teachers in both primary and secondary schools who wish to improve their deployment of teaching assistants and their own interactions with pupils. Used in combination with Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants in Primary Schools, The Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Effective Interaction is a comprehensive and unrivalled resource for supporting school workforce improvement.