Bit of research really. I'm a fairly new TA in a medium-sized secondary school. I work across the curriculum with all year groups, one-to-one with individual SEN children per lesson. SEN can range from dyslexia to autism, and children are all fairly low ability.
If you have a TA with a child in your lesson, what do you really want that TA to do? Sometimes I feel like I'm just there as a prompt for the child ("Get your pencil case out, please", "Don't forget to underline the title"), sometimes just a scribe to get information down while the teacher talks from the front, but at other times (usually in practicals) I feel like I'm having an immediate and tangible benefit to the child's learning.
I aim to ask "my" teachers for some direct feedback in the near future but I need to tread carefully due to in-school politics surrounding my department.
So, what makes a great TA in your lessons? What do they do that makes them great? And, conversely, what makes a terrible TA and why?
Just nipping off to get tea on the go, but will be popping in and out all evening.
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HarrietSchulenberg · 31/01/2014 17:46
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