The Complete Guide to Behaviour for Teaching Assistants and Support Staff
The Complete Guide to Behaviour for Teaching Assistants and Support Staff

Author: Chris Lee

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2010-11-17

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1446248291

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By providing a thorough grounding in the theory behind behaviour management, followed by suggestions for successful strategies to use in the classroom, this book gives the reader the confidence to manage the challenging behaviour of children and young people in educational contexts. Written specifically for teaching assistants and support staff, this book covers behaviour, motivation and discipline issues with their specific role and position in mind. Supported by the views and responses of current students on Foundation Degrees and those working towards HLTA status, the book reflects the difficulties, dilemmas and successes of this vital group of people working in today′s classrooms. There are three main types of teaching assistant: the discipliner; the negotiator; the counsellor. This book helps the reader to find their own behaviour management style, and their own way of working. Useful features include: - chapter objectives - exercises and activities - case studies - further reading. This book is idea for those studying on a Foundation Degree, working towards Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) or anyone working in a supporting role in a Primary or Secondary setting. Chris Lee was until recently Senior Lecturer in Education and Head of the School of Continuing Professional Development at the Faculty of Education, University of Plymouth. He has taught in secondary and special schools, and continues to work with teachers on issues of bullying and behaviour management. He is now a freelance educational consultant.

A Teaching Assistant's Complete Guide to Achieving NVQ Level 2
A Teaching Assistant's Complete Guide to Achieving NVQ Level 2

Author: Susan Bentham

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0415403413

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The government's aim is that by 2006, all TAs working in schools in the UK will be qualified to NVQ Level 2 and above. This book is extremely practical and follows a set of templates enabling students to dip in and out of the material as they progress through their course.

A Teaching Assistant's Complete Guide to Achieving NVQ Level Two
A Teaching Assistant's Complete Guide to Achieving NVQ Level Two

Author: Susan Bentham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-03-12

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1134141505

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Teaching Assistants Complete Guide to Achieving NVQ Level 2 provides a range of tried-and-tested materials and practical advice on how to effectively demonstrate competence in the classroom. It covers: setting the scene – describing a common teaching situation through a case study or dialogue gathering evidence – how a candidate can gather evidence to meet performance indicators from the featured case studies making connections to underpinning knowledge – demonstrates how teaching assistants can apply their knowledge to their everyday practice through self-assessment questions. With practical classroom examples to mirror the NVQ course requirements, this book is an essential and comprehensive guide for candidates, tutors, assessors and teachers supporting candidates for this course.

A Teaching Assistant's Guide to Completing NVQ Level 3
A Teaching Assistant's Guide to Completing NVQ Level 3

Author: Susan Bentham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1317857720

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A Teaching Assistant's Guide to Completing NVQ Level 3 is a must-have for all teaching assistants embarking on this course, and invaluable reading for tutors and assessors. This textbook addresses both the performance and knowledge requirements of the course. A key element of your NVQ Teaching Assistant course is to show evidence that you can apply your knowledge to everyday classroom activities, and students often find this is their biggest challenge. This book provides a range of tried-and-tested materials and practical advice on how to gather evidence that covers key performance indicators, to ensure that you complete your course successfully. This essential guide: gives detailed guidance on how to collect evidence from a variety of sources to match performance indicators provides photocopiable templates for teacher/teaching assistant discussions on roles and responsibilities, appraisals and self-appraisals gives examples of IEPs and Behaviour Plans provides the necessary underpinning knowledge in a clear and reader-friendly manner provides summaries of relevant legislation and national documents. Following the new and updated occupational standards (2007) for Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools, this textbook offers truly invaluable advice for NVQ level 3 students. Including extracts of imaginary evidence the book follows the experiences of imaginary candidates, showing how they successfully put forward their portfolios of evidence to complete the course. Highly practical, rooted in everyday classroom practice and very closely tied to NVQ course requirements, this accessible book is an essential comprehensive guide for all students, as well as tutors, assessors and teachers supporting candidates for this course.

Propping up the Performative School
Propping up the Performative School

Author: Jo Bishop

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-09-12

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1839822449

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Drawing on an ethnography conducted in a state secondary school, this book provides a critical examination of the role and practice of educational paraprofessionals, focusing on the learning mentor. It explores the lived reality of their work and how these ‘new’ roles are framed within more established discourses like ‘pastoral care’.

Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants
Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants

Author: Rob Webster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1317442121

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Teaching assistants are an integral part of classroom life, yet pioneering research by the authors has shown schools are not making the most of this valued resource. Evidence shows the more support pupils receive from TAs, the less academic progress they made. Yet the reason for this has little to do with TAs. It is decisions made about them by school leaders and teachers that best explain this provocative finding. The fully updated second edition of this book draws on the experiences of schools that have put this guidance into action via the Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants programme. Revised to reflect the latest research evidence and changes within education, including the 2014 SEND Code of Practice, this book will help school leaders and teachers in primary and secondary settings to rethink the role, purpose and contribution of TAs, and add real value to what can be achieved in classrooms. Setting out a field-tested process, structured around a coherent and empirically sound conceptual framework, this book: helps school leaders review, reform and reenergise their TA workforce provides practical strategies to implement in the classroom illustrates key points with new case studies provides photocopiable templates and resources to support decision-making and action. Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants provides much-needed and evidence-informed guidance on how to unleash the huge potential of TAs, and is essential reading for all school leaders.

The Essential Guide for New Teaching Assistants
The Essential Guide for New Teaching Assistants

Author: Anne Watkinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-01-04

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1135176639

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Offering an introduction to school life, this book is suitable for teaching assistants who have been inducted, or are going through the process of induction, and are working in schools with children or young people.

The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation
The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation

Author: Sue Cowley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1472948947

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This book is the ultimate guide to differentiation and adaptive teaching in early years, schools and further education settings by Sue Cowley, bestselling author of Getting the Buggers to Behave. It offers over 90 practical and time-saving strategies in every classroom. The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation demonstrates how teachers already differentiate and adapt their teaching much of the time, in subtle and creative ways. Sue Cowley shows that we need to understand, acknowledge and celebrate the variety of approaches that teachers already use, as well as helping them to develop additional strategies. The book takes the reader through the different methods and approaches to differentiation and adaptive teaching, providing a step-by-step guide to each. It is broken down into five core areas - planning, resources, learners, teaching and assessment - and readers can dip in and out to find strategies as and when they need them. Written in Sue's much loved realistic, honest and practical style, The Ultimate Guide to Differentiation will help teachers, practitioners and support staff to feel confident that they are meeting the needs of every learner.

Achieving Outstanding Classroom Support in Your Secondary School
Achieving Outstanding Classroom Support in Your Secondary School

Author: Jill Morgan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-14

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1317563514

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Achieving Outstanding Classroom Support in Your Secondary School shows how secondary school teachers and other school staff can work with Teaching Assistants to ensure that classroom support is maximised and an optimum working relationship is developed. Based on research taken directly from the classroom, all recommendations and guidelines explored in this book are based on the findings of those who have consulted Teaching Assistants about their work, in order to better understand the dynamics of classrooms where at least one of the adults present is supporting the other, directly or indirectly. Topics studied include: Understanding the roles and responsibilities of the Teaching Assistant What the research tells us about Teaching Assistants How to plan before the lesson How to involve the Teaching Assistant in the lesson How to provide feedback and advocacy for the Teaching Assistant after the lesson This accessible text provides a highly supportive framework to prompt teachers to be proactive and plan ahead for effective use of their Teaching Assistants in the classroom and will be of interest to all secondary teachers, SENCOs, heads of departments and school managers.

The Essential Guide for Competent Teaching Assistants
The Essential Guide for Competent Teaching Assistants

Author: Anne Watkinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1317857542

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This indispensable textbook provides the underpinning knowledge to support all teaching assistants working towards Level 2 of the National Occupational Standards. This new edition is fully revised and extended to incorporate and respond to all new materials required to meet the 2007 standards. Taking into account current initiatives including Workforce Remodelling and the Every Child Matters agenda, the book can be used to support NVQs, or other Teaching Assistant awards at level 2, or can be used simply to supplement good practice. This accessible companion: actively engages the reader in activities, developing reflective practice while giving the theoretical background to school-based work gives insight and information about pupils’ individual needs helps teaching assistants develop curriculum-based skills to enable more effective classroom support emphasises that teaching assistants are team members, supporting the school and being supported by the school. Contributions from specialist advisers ensure that the ideas and techniques are up to date, relevant and the best practice. All phases of education are covered, from the early years to later secondary years, and references are made to sources of further information throughout the book. The Essential Guide for Competent Teaching Assistants is invaluable in supporting both study and everyday practice. It will also be useful to training providers, teachers and school managers supporting Teaching Assistants in their professional development.