Identifying the individual educational needs of all children. Keeping children informed about their individual performances and achievements. Keeping parents up to date, so as to identify their child’s strengths and areas for development. A teaching assistant plays a vital role when it comes to assessing a child’s progress in class, not only do we supervise support children in groups but are also involved in assessing a child’s performance in the subjects in the school curriculum. A TA provides help and support to both teachers and pupils, as well as supporting children in the classroom in a variety of different ways.
If you are not part of the planning you can still speak to the teacher about what will be happening and offer ideas and suggestions of your own. 1.1 continued Role of teacher Role of teaching assistant • To be responsible for planning and preparing to the National or Early Years Curriculum • To plan and prepare work alongside the teacher • To teach pupils according to their educational needs • To support learning activities • To access, record and report on the development, progress and attainment of pupils • To assess/evaluate children’s work as directed by the teacher • To take responsibility for all other adults within
Danielle Gallagher Unit 303 Support learning activities Outcome 1 Contribute to planning learning activities 1.1 Explain how a learning support practitioner may contribute to the planning, delivery and review of learning activities Although the class teacher is primarily responsible to plan, deliver and review all learning activities for the class, a teaching assistant can work alongside the teacher and make contributions that can improve the teachers plan, alter the delivery to make it more effective for pupil attainment and extend the teachers initial review. “Planning, teaching and evaluation follow a cycle which gives structure to the learning process” and is vital in my role as a teaching assistant. I aim to describe how I aide the teacher to plan and deliver lessons and how I give feedback to the teacher about individual pupils, in order for the teacher make improvements in her planning and to be able to target individual children that are struggling. I will also give an example at the end to show how I effectively assisted in planning, delivery and the review of a lesson. Planning - the teacher will ask her staff to look over her planning and to give an opinion on it, if the staff feel there could be any improvements then they will tell the teacher.
I would need to know if I will be working on a 1:1 basis or with a group so I can plan accordingly. During the lesson I would be constantly monitoring each student that I am working with to ensure participation and understanding in the tasks set. I would be aware of the desired learning outcome and would be asking questions such as “what have you learnt today?” or “can you tell me one thing you now know after the lesson that you didn’t know before?” After the lesson I would discuss with the teacher what progress has been made and the level of the students engaging and what if anything the students have found particularly easy or difficult. On a termly basis I would feed back any issues that I have found with the students I have worked with, this is done in a meeting form so alternative provisions can be made if
Helping to organise the learning environment and supporting the introduction of new activities. Preparing and setting out the classroom resources and equipments as directed by the class teacher. Monitoring children’s responses to learning activities and
1.1 Describe how a learning support practioner may contribute to the planning delivery and review of learning activities; Within the role of TA we will at some point contribute to the planning, delivery and evaluation of learning activities alongside the teacher .When the planning of a lesson takes place there should be some opportunity to discuss the pupils work with the teacher. Planning, teaching and evaluation follows the cycle which gives structure to the learning process: PLAN Teacher ,put input,suggest ideas,own input and part of the planning ,take notes ,take part Evaluate,feed back to both children and teacher ,techniques written /verbal feedback Prepare,get resources ready,have a lesson plan ,adapt the resources ,clean up and check health and safety Prepare Get resources ,,ready,have a copy pre Observing ,taking notes to see pupils ability .compare notes Implement and support To do activity ,extra support ,managing behaviour ,encouragement. Most Ta,s are involved in the daily /short plans rather than the long /medium term .By knowing the LO TA,s will be clear on what is expected from the pupils and to what they are expected to achieve . If a TA has particular strengths in ascertain area which is being taught they may be asked to put forward their ideas towards the lesson plan. At some point you may be asked to work alongside the teacher with their long term plans and activities for the week .PPA may be set aside for this.
Teachers can analyse performance using tests or questioning the pupils after completing an activity. Plans could include differentiated classroom groups, built in review time. Plan to give pupils examples of a variety of skills, attitudes, standards and qualities to aim for. (b) the learners Peer and self assessment are activities that actively engage pupils with their level of understanding and the quality of their work and help them to reflect on how to improve. Pupils must be familiar with learning objectives, outcomes and success criteria and feel confident in how to interpret them.
Unit 307 support Assessment for learning 1.1 Compare and contrast the roles of the teacher and the learning support practitioner and assessment of learners, achievements Effective assessment plays a vital role in demonstrating how a teacher teaches and how pupils learn; it also allows a teacher to meet with other teachers to share examples of pupil’s progress and discuss why they think that child is working at that particular level. One of the main responsibilities of the class teacher is to monitor and assess pupil achievement in order to observe how all children in the class are progressing, assessing a pupil will also enable a child to recognise their own achievements in order to make progress in their own learning and allow teachers to adapt their teaching to a child’s individual needs. The teacher is responsible for following the curriculum, planning lessons and providing the necessary resources for the children, she will also develop and adapt learning activities to suit the requirements of individual groups of children who will need them that sets out a clear learning objective so that learner progress can be measured and to make the children aware of their learning intentions, this will decide whether that particular child requires more or less in their learning and targets will then be set for the child, if pupils have not made any advancement towards their learning objective, either the learning objective needs to be modified or adapted or the teaching tactics improved. A teacher’s responsibilities towards the children in their care also involve; • Deliver an on going record of each child’s progress in class. • Inform children about their individual performances and achievement’s.
There are two different types of assessment, assessment for learning and assessment of learning. Assessment for learning is used to inform and guide instruction as well as diagnosis any misconceptions a student may have. Assessment of learning is used after the learning has already occurred to determine the level of understanding the student has achieved and to see if they have mastery of the standard. Within this component teachers can indicate which type of assessment they will use to guide instruction whether it be a pencil/paper test or assessing students using 21st century skills. Differentiation: When providing differentiation in the classroom the teachers provide instruction to meet or exceed each individual student.
Additionally, assessments assist teachers in providing better service and support to build upon the children’s strengths and weaknesses through all developmental domains. With the use of assessments and records, teachers keep track of each individual child’s growth, goal accomplishments, and learning. In addition, as a teaching tool, assessments aid educators abilities to support and guide the children’s learning through designing appropriate learning environments, planning curriculum, and successful learning