Understand what is required for competence in own work role
Click to watch ‘Skills you need to become a teaching assistant’ from the Training Express website. How many of these skills are required in your current role?
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Find and read your job description and any setting policy documents that relate to your role.
- ‘Behaviour management and codes of conduct’ from the NSPCC
- 'National Occupational Standards for Supporting Teaching Learning’ originally published by TDA.
- Repository for all approached National Occupational Standards
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Key Elements of Effective Practice (KEEP)'.
- 'KEEP Key Elements of Effective Practice'. Click on the icon to open and read this document.
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- This article ’What is a teaching assistant?’ from the TA Focus website looks at the role and qualifications of a teaching assistant.
- This section of the University of Portsmouth website looks at some of the different roles ‘Working with children and young people’. Click on the different roles to find relevant information about key responsibilities, skill requirements, starting salaries, entry requirements and career prospects
- In 2015 the Department for Education released the ‘Common core of skills and knowledge for the children’s and young people’s workforce. Read to find out more about the skills and knowledge that may be involved in your role.
- Read the chapter called ‘Roles and Responsibilities of the Teaching Assistant’ from this document ’Classroom Support Staff Handbook’, produced by Teaching Personnel
- Click to read about the role of a teaching assistant on the Twinkl website.
- This article from the Twikle website looks at the roles and responsibilities of an ‘Early Years Practitioner’. Read the article and watch the videos. How similar are the skills and knowledge to those required in your current role?
- Think And Challenge
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