How to be an Outstanding Primary Teaching Assistant
1st Edition
Published on 21. September 2017
160 pages
978-1-4729-3462-8 (ISBN)
Description
How to be an Outstanding Primary Teaching Assistant is packed full of advice, tips and strategies to help teaching assistants deliver outstanding support in the primary classroom.
Written by an experienced teaching assistant, this book explores the diverse range of roles and responsibilities held by support staff in primary schools and provides guidance on how to tackle them successfully. It features tried-and-tested ideas that can be easily implemented and helps teaching assistants to build a toolbox of skills and strategies to support children throughout their school career, whatever their ability or need.
This easy-to-use book includes creative advice on how best to assist the classroom teacher and the children they teach, including those with special educational needs, English as an additional language, or behavioural difficulties. It is an invaluable resource for newly qualified and more experienced teaching assistants.
Written by an experienced teaching assistant, this book explores the diverse range of roles and responsibilities held by support staff in primary schools and provides guidance on how to tackle them successfully. It features tried-and-tested ideas that can be easily implemented and helps teaching assistants to build a toolbox of skills and strategies to support children throughout their school career, whatever their ability or need.
This easy-to-use book includes creative advice on how best to assist the classroom teacher and the children they teach, including those with special educational needs, English as an additional language, or behavioural difficulties. It is an invaluable resource for newly qualified and more experienced teaching assistants.
Reviews / Votes
This is an incredibly useful guide for both new and more experienced teaching assistants. Emma's personal experience in the classroom shines through and the book highlights just how valuable an outstanding teaching assistant is to any school. * Jenna Lucas, Primary Teacher and English Specialist Leader of Education, @JennaLucas81 * This is a brilliant book and will not only support those embarking on a career as a teaching assistant but also those already in the profession. Written from a wealth of experience, it will enable effective partnerships between teacher and TA to be developed in order to have the greatest impact upon the children. * Rachel Orr, Education Consultant, Teacher and Tutor, @RachelOrr * An excellent book which covers all the basics TAs need, and which will give them a good grounding to start a successful career as a TA. * Parents in Touch *More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-3462-8 (9781472934628)
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Book
09/2017
Bloomsbury Education
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Person
Emma Davie has been a teaching assistant for 17 years and has worked across all of the primary age ranges, supporting children with a variety of additional needs. At present she works with Year 6 pupils, teaching small groups of children with a range of special educational needs, including autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, speech and language difficulties and English as an additional language.
Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The role of the teaching assistant
- Classroom organisation (secretary)
- First aid (nurse)
- Safeguarding (police officer/ social worker/counsellor)
- Educational visits (tour guide)
- E- safety (IT technician)
- Interior designer (painter and decorator)
- 2 Supporting children with special educational needs
- Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Autism
- Dyspraxia
- Hearing impairment (HI)
- Visual impairment (VI)
- Dyslexia
- Dyscalculia
- Transition
- SEND Code of Practice
- 3 Supporting children with English as an additional language
- Welcoming a child with EAL into the setting
- Making friends
- Welcoming parents
- Introducing the child to the school day
- Learning through play
- Expressing ideas, thoughts and feelings
- Praise
- Accessing the curriculum
- 4 Supporting children with behavioural issues
- Rewards
- Sanctions
- Consistency
- Restraint
- 5 Small group working
- Fine motor groups
- Gross motor skills
- Social interaction groups (SIG)/ friendship groups
- Pre-tutoring
- Maths support (formerly numeracy)
- English (formerly literacy)
- Reading in groups (RIG) (or guided reading groups)
- Anger management groups
- Glossary of abbreviations and acronyms
- Index
