Ten Top Tips for TAs
Course date: 20th Nov 2024
Course Objectives:
- To ensure that your support staff are making a substantial contribution to pupils’ learning.
- To help your school maximise learning and raise standards for all through the effective use of teaching assistants/support staff.
Target Group: Primary TAs
Training will cover:
Tea & coffee will be provided, delegates are advised to bring a packed lunch.
- The role of the teaching assistant
- Extending and supporting learning-knowing when to intervene and when to stand back
- Effective observations and feedback to teachers
- Understanding what learning is aimed for and where the next steps are
- Promoting independence
- Consistency of approach
- Involvement in planning
- Being a professional role-model
- Understanding cross curricular links in C4W
- How to maximise their effectiveness-reacting to what is going on around them and being mobile
Tea & coffee will be provided, delegates are advised to bring a packed lunch.
Course Presenter: Cath Delve
FOUNDATION PHASE/ OUTDOOR LEARNING/ WHOLE SCHOOL ISSUES - Cath provides help, support and guidance to schools and local authorities all over Wales. She is a published author and has 26 years teaching experience in three different schools. She was a deputy headteacher of two and an acting head of one.
She is passionate about the wellbeing of children and outdoor learning and presents a wide range of training courses across different areas of the curriculum. Some of her initiatives-such as Messy Monday, Freaky Friday, Igloo and Missions-have been implemented and used by schools all over Wales and even been introduced in England. Alongside her book, she has produced a wide range of resources to support teachers and schools.
As well as being a member of the Collective Learning team she is also an independent education consultant, working alongside schools in a variety of ways all over Wales to help them to move forward in every way.
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Course Location: Pembrokeshire Exclusive
ADDRESS:
Bloomfield House Community Centre, Redstone Road, Narberth, Pembrokeshire SA67 7ES
https://bloomfieldcommunitycentre.org/
* Delegates are advised to bring a packed lunch
TIMES:- Please arrive from 8.45am for Registration and tea/coffee
- Courses will start at 9.15am