Teaching Assistant Courses and Advice
Parents Invited To Share Their Views On Teaching Assistant Standards
As from today (28th October 2014) parents are being asked for their views on what standards should be set for Teaching Assistants.
Read the full press release here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/teaching-assistant-standards-review-call-for-evidence-launched
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11 strategies to use with aggressive children in the classroom
Teaching Assistants often have to work with individuals who, because of the nature of a condition or syndrome, can sometimes be aggressive children. The skill is to know the individual who displays the behaviour and understand the causes and what triggers[...]
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Teaching Assistants – Our role in reducing aggression in the classroom
The Guardian reports that in a recent poll of 1500 teachers by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), more than half reported experiencing aggression from pupils and a quarter from parents and carers. In addition to verbal insults, threats and[...]
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Teaching Assistant’s Role to be Transformed
‘Department for Education figures show there are now more teaching assistants than teachers in primary schools in England, 257,300 compared to 242,300’ reports TES.
Although teachers have the main responsibility of teaching in the classroom, Rob Webster,[...]
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Helping Children to be Creative
‘Creativity is the residue of time wasted’ decided Einstein whose theory of relativity revolutionised physics.
If this statement is true it would appear to present a dilemma to those involved in the formal education of children – surely one aim[...]
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Children and Young People
Research over time has demonstrated that children given higher quality educational provision and support in their early developmental years closes the gap between disadvantaged children and others as they grow older. In other words, children who are provided[...]
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Teachers and Their Tools
It is easy sometimes to take teachers for granted. As children, they are the gatekeepers, and sometimes our antagonists! But a good teacher can make the difference between paying attention and developing a complete apathy toward the educational process.
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Teaching and Education
Teaching is the passing of knowledge and experience from oneself to another. It has been around since the dawn of time and exists in all environments from Polar Bears teaching their cubs to hunt, to parents encouraging their children’s first steps to[...]
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