The Teaching Assistant's Guide New perspectives for changing times

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Synopsis

This textbook, designed to meet the needs of students on the teaching assistant foundation degree, provides an accessible overview of the teaching assistant's role, incorporating practical tasks that will challenge students to reflect on and improve their day-to-day practice. Set within a wider educational context, and full of thoroughly grounded advice throughout, this book includes:

personal professional development - helping teaching assistants to understand their role and their workplace
growth, development and learning - introducing the basic theories human development and learning
behaviour management - exploring strategies that encourage and support appropriate behaviour
today's curriculum and how children learn literacy, maths, science and technology
understanding inclusive education, exploring access, participation and additional needs for specific groups of young people.
With activities, task lists, discussion points, ideas, summary points and notes on further reading, this textbook will be the essential companion for all foundation degree students, as well as a useful handbook for teaching assistants in practice.

Book details

Author:
Michelle Lowe, Jim Pugh
ISBN:
9781134282142
Related ISBNs:
9780415345682, 9780203567180, 9780415345682, 9780415345682, 9781138168329, 9781138168329
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
168
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-01-05
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2006
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Education, Nonfiction