WORKING TOGETHER LEARNING SUPPORT AND TEACHING STAFF

Teaching assistants and learning support teams are taking on increasingly more important roles within the classroom.  It is important, especially if few are fully trained teachers, that their role is well defined, planned and structured.  This is especially important when they are tasked with providing more specialised support and guidance.

The effectiveness of the support provided by teaching and learning support assistants is highly dependent on the way that the teaching and learning support assistants role is developed and dovetailed into lesson planning and delivery.  

It is essential that management, teachers and the learning support staff have a clear and agreed and unified approach to teaching delivery.

For example, learning support teams need to ensure that they work in ways that ensures students are stretched and encouraged to become more independent but simultaneously provides the detailed guidance and support when students need it.  These opposing goals are better achieved when management, teachers and support teams approach the classroom with common aims, objectives and approaches.

Concrew Training's one-day workshop provides external input on good practice and helps management, teachers, tutors and support teams to develop an effective joined up approach to teaching and learning delivery.  It helps the different staff to work together better, to identify each other’s needs and ways of working, to enhance team working and to ensure that students are best served. 

More information at:
http://concrew-training.co.uk/courses/working-together