Teaching Assistants
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Activity Ideas
One day workshop sessions:
Ideas for ICT course for Teaching Assistants
Please take a look at what we've already come up with and then add your own ideas.
- What would be really useful?
- What should we not bother with?
Other Resources for TAs
Hand picked books relevant to teaching assistants
Really good practical tips, interesting articles to download. Subscribe to receive a paper copy.
Web sites and blogs
Classroom Displays Flickr Group
Acting to Improve (Linda's online learning journal)
Latest Posts from HLTA and TA Staffroom Blog
Debbie's resource cupboard - saving you time
Latest Headlines from Learning Support Magazine:
Learning Support News
- Displays books relaunched
- "Eat up" is bad advice, say experts
- Learning Support magazine closes
- Academies hit with support staff pensions bill
- Four out of ten disabled children live in poverty
Teachers TV Videos about the role of TAs
First an older video but a really good one:
Primary TAs - The Mouse Doesn't Bite - ICT for TAs
Primary TAs
A series of 12 videos from Teachers TV
Secondary TA videos
Not yet really collated by the new site but:
Working as a Team is worth watching as an example of great practice.
Literacy at Little Ilford is another one worth looking at.
Planning work is also worth seeing - too many schools don't formally do this sort of preparation for classes.
General TA videos
Series of videos of TAs talking about their role
Teaching Assistants Online Forums
- TA Chat forum Still the largest Teaching Assistant's forum this one is very good, active and busy, with lots of information and socialising.
- Teaching Support Forum (Link updated 13/2/08) A smaller community but active and lively. This one also has teacher members. The discussions about career development are particularly good. It's been slightly damaged by having to move to a new url but there is a core of really helpful community minded members so I'm sure it will soon be back on track. They have a dedicated NVQ STL tutor/asessor and HLTA champion on board that offer advice and support to those undertaking this career progression. Might be the best choice for TAs new to forums.
- HLTA and TA Staffroom - a large active forum with a clear focus on career and work based leaning. Also has a blog which is mostly used for posting links to resources.
If you've got time, join all of them and see where you feel most comfortable.
If you are new to forums read Andy's post 10 tips for Bloggers Using Forums. It's not just for bloggers, it's got some really good general advice about how to find and use forums.
NCFE - Teaching Assistants - Level 2
Workshops
One day workshop sessions:
Workshop 1 - ICT Training Day
Workshop 2 - Displays
Teaching Assistants in North America
Added by a transatlantic wiki friend these are aimed at college teaching assistants rather than those working in schools.
http://cgeu.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Best, MarkDilley
