25 November 2020 - 16:00 to 19:00 (ICT)
$185 USD or $150 USD Early Bird Offer (Book before 11 November)
The Teaching Assistant (TA) or Learning Support Assistant (LSA) can be a highly-valued asset in the classroom. The key though is to identify what are and what aren’t the best value interventions the TA can make. This course will offer practical, lesson-ready strategies to support you in improving the learning and progress of the pupils you support.
Whilst this course will focus on work with mainstream pupils there will be a clear reference to EAL and SEN Pupils too
Setting the context
Describe what we know an effective TA does and does not do
Identify the barriers to Literacy and Numeracy some pupils face
Outline the best strategies to improve Literacy and Numeracy
Literacy Interventions
Focus on the 3 core aspects of Literacy (reading, writing and oracy)
Support with writing - spellings, Language for Learning, extending writing
Support with reading - various ways of reading
Support with oracy - building more confident speakers
Numeracy Interventions
Focus on the 3 core aspects of Numeracy (data, measuring and number)
Strategies to support number work
Strategies to support measuring work
Strategies to support data work
All our 3-hour online workshops include:
practical classroom-ready ideas and resources showing how to embed the strategies being shared when supporting pupils
small group size to facilitate interaction and full engagement and make it fun too
group/pair work and discussion with the tutor
pdf of the course booklet