Conclusion One of the central aims of this course has been to give you a sense of how teaching assistants are part of an exciting educational development. We have therefore set the employment of teaching assistants in the context of the widespread growth of a new paraprofessional workforce across public services. We have noted the gendered nature of this workforce in schools, identified reasons why local parents in particular are attracted to working in schools, and highlighted the valuable contribu
3 Support in action A teaching assistant’s role of supporting teaching and learning in the classroom may evolve with time. Alternatively an assistant may be recruited to the role for that very purpose, or perhaps they might lie somewhere in the middle, having joined the body of teaching assistants just as the role was being reviewed and bearing witness to its expansion and development. In the penultimate section of this course, we focus with a degree of detail on the practice of teaching assistant Caroline Hig
2.3 Distinctive contributions In Activity 1 you looked at the various support roles of Jean, a pupil support assistant. Let us now consider the essential nature of the work that assistants do and the way they contribute to the totality of work in a classroom. Are teaching assistants ‘simply’ assisting teachers in doing their work? If this is so, it seems that teachers and assistants are working together to carry out the duties that previously teachers working alone would have covered. On this analysis, teaching
1.6 Growth of the teaching assistant workforce Between the mid 1990s and 2012, in all four UK countries there was a growth in the number of teaching assistants working alongside teachers in primary classrooms. As we have indicated, the seeds of this development were sown in the 1980s, when support staff were employed to support the inclusion of children with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms. Teaching assistants were recruited to provide individualised help for children. In some areas of the UK, nursery nurses have long w
1.3 Professional and personal skills Jean Ionta works as a pupil support assistant at St Patrick’s Primary School in Glasgow. ‘Pupil support assistant’ has been the preferred name for teaching assistants in Scotland. They often provide both specialist learning support and more general support to teachers. When filming the videos for this course at the school we focused on Jean as she went about her work with children and staff. We put these aspects of her work together to give a sense of her day and the professional and pe
Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: be able to discuss how the UK’s teaching assistant workforce came into being be developing your understanding that teaching assistants are part of a wider assistant workforce in the public services of health, social services and education have insights into the diverse roles and distinctive contributions of teaching assistants across the UK be able to identify some of the skills tha
Ouverture: Intermediate French
This course revises and consolidates your knowledge of French and teaches more advanced language skills whilst offering insights into many aspects of every day life in modern France. Your knowledge need not be formal; it could come from adult education classes, time spent in French-speaking countries, regular contact with French-speaking people or other sources. The course materials are carefully designed to develop the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing. They also
Nuevo vocabulario relacionado con el tono de un cuento En esta actividad podrá aprender nuevo vocabulario relacionado con el tono de un cuento y también identificará el tono de Apocalipsis.
Click 'view document' to open ‘Apocalipsis' de Marco De Distintos tipos de artesanía En esta actividad va a poder hablar de distintos tipos de artesanÃa.
1 Relacione las siguientes artesanÃas con los materiales que se utilizan para elaborarlas. ¡Ojo!, tenga en cuenta que varia El arte conceptual En esta actividad va a estudiar más a fondo el arte conceptual. Si usted sabe mucho sobre arte, haga el siguiente test, y luego compruebe sus respuestas leyendo el te Gustos y preferencias En esta sesión va a poder expresar sus gustos y preferencias respecto a distintas manifestaciones artÃsticas y también aprenderá a definir términos abstractos. En esta actividad va a leer lo que vari 9.3 PLATO DE ESPAGUETIS Find out which of the following words go together by following the spaghetti strands. Busque los pares. 5.1 Actividad 1 Look at this photo of a bar in Havana, Cuba. What can you see? Below it is a list of objects, some of which appear in the photo. Tick the ones you can see. Look up the words you don’ t understand in the d 3.6 Léxico básico
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