Course Description

Course curriculum

    1. Session 1 Introduction

    2. The Role of the Teaching Assistant

    3. Qualities of an Amazing TA

    4. Every Kid Needs a Champion - Rita Pierson

    5. The Teaching Assistant Teaching and Learning Cycle

    6. Coping with time demands

    7. Getting to know your learners

    1. Session 2 Introduction

    2. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

    3. What is safeguarding?

    4. Health and Safety

    5. Causes for concern

    6. Staying Safe Online

    7. Safeguarding and health and safety checklist

    1. Session 3 Introduction

    2. Independent Pupil v. Independent Learner

    3. Barriers to independence

    4. Supporting Independent Learning

    5. Metacognition

    6. Metacognitive Strategies

    7. Making Mistakes

    8. Supporting the independent pupil

    9. What skills and qualities do we want children and young people to leave school with?

    1. Session 4 Introduction

    2. Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset

    3. Mindset in more depth

    4. Promoting a Growth Mindset

    5. The Power of Yet - Carol Dweck

    6. Which mindset are you?

    7. Modelling Growth Mindset

    1. Session 5 Introduction

    2. What makes a good teacher/TA relationship?

    3. Barriers to Effective Communication

    4. What do TAs need to know?

    5. Planning with the teacher

    6. Supporting good practice

    7. Giving meaningful feedback

    8. Teacher/TA meetings

    9. Managing misunderstandings and disagreements

    1. Session 6 Introduction

    2. Dylan Wiliam - Every Teacher Can Improve

    3. Reflection and Evaluation

    4. Models of Reflection

    5. What should we be reflecting on?

    6. Self-Evaluation Questionnaire

    7. Reflection Questions

    8. Activity Evaluation

    9. Using our reflections

About this course

  • £49.00
  • 50 lessons
  • 0 hours of video content

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Reflection and Evaluation

Susan Zhang

Identify professional development opportunities It may be that, whilst there's nothing directly in your practice you can change immediately, you've ident...

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Identify professional development opportunities It may be that, whilst there's nothing directly in your practice you can change immediately, you've identified some professional development opportunities you'd like to undertake.

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