Teaching Assistants: A Comprehensive Handbook for Teaching Assistants in the UK
- ISBN-10
- 0645694924
- ISBN-13
- 9780645694925
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2023-03
- Author
- Adam Green
Description
This comprehensive handbook is essential reading for all Teaching Assistants in the UK. Students, early career TAs and those with substantial experience will find this book useful.The focus of this book is on presenting evidence from the academic literature and relating it to the practical skills that teaching assistants require to be successful in the classroom.Key topics include keeping children safe from hazards, instructional skills, literacy and language support strategies, and working with children with disabilities and disorders. This book can be used as a training handbook, for revision and gap training, and as the basis of an accredited program of study such as those focusing on educational psychology, autism, instructional skills and literacy and numeracy.The author of this manual is a former teacher and has spent many decades designing and delivering teaching assistant courses around the world.
