The role of the classroom assistant is gaining more recognition and acknowledgement in research, and it is imperative that schools and colleges consider how they are training and deploying these invaluable assets to support learning and teaching. One cannot underestimate the relationships and support classroom assistants cultivate, but it is an ever-expanding role and one in which there is perhaps a turnover of staff and lack of formal professional development opportunities.
This course provides strategies and information to empower classroom assistants to reflect on their role and consider the effectiveness of different methods and practices in supporting students’ learning. It explores the changing role of classroom assistant to learning support assistant, and allows them to see their role within the wider context of the whole class, and whole school.
This course would be suitable for newly-appointed CAs to help them understand the expectations, or for existing CAs who have never received training and require a refresher in their roles and responsibilities.
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