Raising awareness of more able children
Aim: to identify more able children and help them to achieve their full potential.
The Evidence People
Teaching assistants
The significance of Formal Planning in the Teacher/Teaching Assistant Partnership
Aim: To investigate the significance of formal planning between teacher and teaching assistant prior to or during the support process.
The teacher - learning support assistant role
Aim: To examine the effectiveness of the teacher "learning support assistant" (LSA) role in assisting pupils with special educational needs to access an appropriately differentiated mainstream curriculum.
The active engagement of teaching assistants in teaching and learning
Aim: The aim of this research was to cast light on the nature of the relationship between teachers and teaching assistants. We wanted to find out:
How schools were deploying teaching assistants;
What responsibilities teachers were giving to teaching assistants and what expectations they had of them;
What contributions teaching assistants were making to enable teachers to carry out their tasks more effectively.