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This book provides comprehensive, informed practical support to those managing and teaching assistants.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. What Teaching Assistants can do 3. The local circumstances - auditing the existing situation in a school 4. Maximising the potential of Teaching Assistants 5. Management systems and structures relating to Teaching Assistants 6. Employing Teaching Assistants: From recruitment to review 7. Teaching Assistants and teaching: Teachers as managers 8. Teaching Assistants' personal and professional development 9. Looking ahead
About the author
Dr Anne Watkinson is an ex-headteacher and LEA senior adviser who now works as an independent consultant on Teaching Assistant matters. She has also worked for both the DfEE and DfES
Summary
This book provides comprehensive, informed practical support to those managing and teaching assistants.
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'Anne Watkinson digs deep into the TA's role as a member of the teaching team, supporting her analysis with case studies, advice on school policies and practical examples of what to do at classroom level. This is an essential book for any senior management team trying to work out a whole-school approach to including TAs, but it is also a source for advice on how to work with TAs in the classroom.' - Times Educational Supplement
