Practical Tips for Teaching Assistants

✍ Scribed by Susan Bentham

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 144
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Packed full of practical suggestions, tips, advice and up-to-date factual information, this book provides a trouble-shooting guide to help teaching assistants deal with a wide variety of classroom situations. Issues and dilemmas confronted in the book include: who’s who in the school self esteem how to use individual learning styles to support students and those with special needs dealing with unacceptable behaviour coping with the job and personal development. Whether read from cover to cover or used as a quick reference tool for looking up specific concerns, this is an essential book for all teaching assistants in primary, secondary and special needs schools, those starting out, and teaching assistants enrolled on training programmes such as NVQ 2, NVQ 3 and the higher level teaching assistant's award.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1. Getting started......Page 12
2. Supporting the school......Page 25
3. Strategies for enhancing learning......Page 35
4. Strategies for supporting literacy......Page 52
5. Strategies for supporting numeracy......Page 71
6. Tips for dealing with unacceptable behaviour......Page 77
7. Tips of TAs for supporting pupils with Special needs......Page 92
8. On being a TA......Page 119
Appendix......Page 126
Glossary......Page 129
Additional resources......Page 135
Bibliography......Page 136
Index......Page 140