Schools, Parenting and Child Development: Introduction to working as a teaching assistant

This course will give you information about working as a teaching assistant (also known as a classroom assistant, a pupil support assistant, a teacher's aide, or abbreviated as a TA) and how you can provide support to teachers by providing teaching and learning support in whatever way possible. On this introductory course, you will gain an overview of how to provide confident and effective support in schools. The knowledge gained could also help you with your own children’s learning at home. It aims to give you an understanding of routes into different areas within the sector and we will briefly look at the skills you will need to progress. We will explore the national curriculum of England, and all the different skills that are learnt through play. We will explore strategies for teaching literacy and numeracy and how this can be effective using digital research and paired mini-teach exercises. We will look at children's social, emotional, and behavioural development in education as well as disability and working in special needs education. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and contribute to the group discussion, receive continual

verbal feedback alongside the written marking of your work, and be encouraged to support each other in your learning. By the end of the course, you would have gained knowledge and skills necessary to progress onto the next stage of learning.