Be able to support learning activities
Talk to the children and young people you support about the importance of ICT skills, and how these skills will help them both inside, and outside, of the classroom.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Typical teaching assistant job description' webpage from the TES website
- 'Classroom support staff handbook' by Teaching Personnel
- ‘Inclusive learning approaches for literacy, language, numeracy and ICT’ from the Sector Council for lifelong learning.
- ‘Children’s social development, peer interaction and classroom learning’ by C Howe and N Mercer of the University of Cambridge.
- ‘5 common techniques for helping struggling students' webpage on the Understood website
- ‘Curriculum for excellence through outdoor learning ' by Learning and Teaching Scotland
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Supporting pupils with specific learning difficulties (dyslexia) in secondary schools’ by Nasen
- ‘Classroom support strategies' webpage on the DsyGuide website. Click on the icon to the left to read these strategies which will benefit all learners.
- Click on the link below to this article giving some common barriers to learning. Although it refers to teaching Modern Foreign Languages, the advice given is relevant in many scenarios.
- Talk to the children and young people you support about the importance of ICT skills, and how these skills will help them both inside, and outside, of the classroom.
- Click to read ‘Busting the myths on outdoor learning in schools’ on the Natural England website.
- Click to read National Strategies document ‘Raising boys’ achievements in writing: case study: Year 6 narrative structures’
- Click to access the National Strategies training module ‘Secondary Intervention: Teaching Assistants’ Training Module: Supporting the Class Teacher’
- Click to access the National Strategies document: ‘The role of teaching assistants in the shared section of the literacy hour’
- Think And Challenge
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