How to make the most of your Classroom Role as a Teacher Assistant

A one day masterclass led by Chris Haines
for teachers in UK Schools, International Schools, and FE Colleges

Target Audience:

  • Teacher assistants
  • Classroom assistants
  • Learning support assistants
  • Inclusion support staff
  • NQTs
  • Classroom teachers

The Course

This course has been designed for Teacher Assistants and Learning Support Assistants wishing to embrace fully the implications of how students learn in the class

room context. It will provide participants with the confidence and solutions to meet the changing needs of the Teacher Assistant in the classroom. It will address the skills essential to develop and support students and bring coherence to the classroom role. It will focus on the issues of how students learn, getting to know students learning preferences, improving memory and understanding, questioning, oral and written feedback, self assessment, developing learning skills, planning and working with staff and dealing with difficult situations, A framework will be used to help Teacher Assistants identify how to work with students to help them learn and improve.

The course will:

  • Provide a detailed look at the core role of a Teacher Assistant
  • Provide a clear rationale for how the role fits into the school context
  • Establish a clear context when working with students based around how students learn and their learning preferences
  • Emphasise some of the successful strategies when working with students
  • Provide examples of how to involve students, provide constructive feedback, question students and encourage self reflection
  • Explore how to develop students' personal skills for learning
  • Explain how to work with classroom teachers
  • Highlight the essential skills of the Teacher Assistant

An extensive high quality course booklet will contain a wide range of support material, case studies from recent research, activities and resources for use with colleagues as well as a summary of the key points from the day.

Target Audience

Teacher Assistants, Classroom Assistants, Learning Support Assistants, Inclusion Support

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How to make the most of your Classroom Role

as a Teacher Assistant


Programme


10.00. Session 1 Examining your current role

  • The changing priorities of the Teacher Assistant in the current context
  • What you have to do and what you can choose to do

10.20 Session 2 Understanding how students learn

  • Exploring students' learning preferences
  • Teaching memory techniques to students
  • Key factors in the learning process
  • Maximizing understanding in students

11.15 Session 3 Using techniques with students to improve learning

  • Using classroom approaches that link assessment to learning
  • Involving students, modelling, oral and written feedback and the use of self assessment
  • When to intervene and when to encourage students to think and work out their own solutions

11.30 Coffee

12.30 Session 4 The use of questioning as a key tool with students

  • Open and closed questioning explored
  • High and low order questions and their use
  • Using quality next learning steps help students learn and improve

1.00 Lunch

2.00 Session 5 Developing students personal learning skills

  • The importance of feedback on self esteem
  • Personal skills of the student and some approaches to try out
  • Essential student skills and their development - your role explored

2.30 Session 6 The importance of planning: a coherent approach with the teacher

  • Lesson planning which focuses on learning intentions
  • An outcome based approach to planning
  • Planning with classroom teachers: issues discussed

3.00 Session 7 Dealing with difficult situations!

  • Tips when working with staff and students
  • Applying simple approaches to your work
  • Devising your 10 tips for success

3.30 Plenary

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Now Only Available In House: Cost £600

Please contact us about this course.  In-house delivery of this programme is customised and run in your school  This service is available to schools and colleges in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.

Course Leader

Chris Haines is a full time trainer running many In Service Training sessions at a national level. He works closely with many schools and has a reputation for providing solutions that work. He is an expert on learning, memory techniques, formative assessment and the skills needed for effective classroom leadership. His work is highly valued in schools taking a stimulating and pragmatic approach to current issues in the classroom.

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