TA Training: New to the role of Teaching Assistant

Session Outcomes

• To consider the roles and responsibilities of a teaching assistant.

• To build and develop an understanding of the barriers pupils can face to accessing learning.

• To build and develop strategies to support positive behaviour management.

• To consider how we manage our own resilience when working in a busy school environment.

Programme Summary

This training will seek to explore the fundamentals of the role of being a teaching assistant. Through a combination of presentation and small group discussion we will look to consider how we can make a difference to the learning and outcomes for those in our care.

We will look and discuss the motivations behind behaviours we may see in school and what might be happening in a child’s brain when we are asked to support them. We will consider some practical strategies to manage pupils behaviour positively as well as looking at how we can keep our own mental health healthy by building our own resilience.

About the Trainer

Lucy Herring is Senior Leader of Education, an experienced primary school educator undertaking a range of roles including classteacher, SENCO and school senior leader. Lucy has a particular interest in the barriers to learning faced by vulnerable and disadvantaged learners. Lucy is the Early Years Subject Lead for the Exeter Consortium teacher training programme and also supports teacher trainees in schools as a Lead Mentor. Lucy is passionate about offering a high-quality of education to all children and young people.

Cost

£45 per person for SWIFT member schools | £65 for Non-members.

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SWIFT Partner providing course (including invoicing) is Exeter Consortium Schools’ Alliance (invoiced by Exeter Consortium)

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