Tiny Voice Talks Education

Working Effectively with your Teaching Assistant with Sara Alston

March 24, 2023 Toria Bono Season 6 Episode 12
Tiny Voice Talks Education
Working Effectively with your Teaching Assistant with Sara Alston
Show Notes

In this episode, Toria chats to Sara about how important teaching assistants are to our schools. Great teacher/TA teams can truly transform teaching and learning in our schools so we talk about how to get this right.

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Sara is an author and educationalist who currently works as an independent consultant and trainer supporting schools with SEND and safeguarding. She draws on her experiences as a teacher and senior leader to support teachers to better understand pupils and their strengths and barriers to learning, and to use this to promote their learning. She has authored several training courses for teachers and teaching assistants, and articles on safeguarding and SEND.

Her latest book is Working Effectively With Your Teaching Assistant which she wrote to supportt teachers in maintaining classroom relationships, including working with the expert or inexperienced TA. It explains:
- different TA roles, including the role of the classroom TA or learning support assistant, the special needs assistant and 1:1 TA
- different forms of intervention, including pre- and over-learning and the importance of ensuring that all children access quality first teaching
- how to work collaboratively, including ways of sharing planning and feedback, differentiation strategies, promoting independence and how to support each other beyond the classroom.

Find out more about Sara and her work here https://www.seainclusion.co.uk/

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