Product Description

This textbook, designed to meet the needs of foundation degree students, provides an accessible overview of the teaching assistant's role, incorporating practical tasks that will challenge students and improve their day-to-day practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35909 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

From the Back Cover

The Teaching Assistant's Guide: An essential textbook for foundation degree students

Linda Hammersley-Fletcher, Michelle Lowe and Jim Pugh

This indispensable new textbook, designed specifically to meet the needs of students on the Teaching Assistant Foundation Degree course, provides a sorely needed and highly accessible overview of the modern Teaching Assistant’s role.

Packed full of comprehensive yet thoroughly grounded advice and practical tasks, this book includes sections covering all the different ideas, situations and problems that a Teaching Assistant can expect to encounter, including:

• Personal professional development – helping Teaching Assistants to understand their role and workplace.
• Growth, development and learning – introducing the basic theories of human development and learning.
• Behaviour management – exploring strategies that encourage and support appropriate behaviour.
• Today’s curriculum – how learning takes place in literacy, mathematics, science and technology.
• Understanding inclusive education – exploring access, participation and additional needs for specific groups of young people.

With activities, task lists, discussion points, ideas, summary points and notes on further reading, this textbook will be the essential companion for all Foundation Degree students. It will also be invaluable reading for any NVQ students and practising Teaching Assistants, as well as those who teach or manage them.

About the Author

Linda Hammersley-Fletcher is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Staffordshire University, UK. Before completing her teacher training and PhD she was a Teaching Assistant in both the primary and secondary sectors.

Michelle Lowe leads the Foundation Degree for Teaching Assistants at Staffordshire University, UK. She has extensive experience of working across the primary sector at a senior level.

Jim Pugh is Lecturer and Course Team Leader within the Teacher Education Department at Stoke-on-Trent College. He has worked across several educational sectors during his career, and still teaches in primary schools.