Become An Outstanding Teaching Assistant / Classroom Aide

Learn the essential strategies to land a job in learning support and being outstanding at it.

What you'll learn

How to support children with SEN

How to provide an effective scaffold and how to differentiate

What the roles of a Teaching Assistant are

How to help children with memory difficulties

Requirements

Interest in helping children to learn

Description

Teaching Assistants/ classroom aides are often the members of the staff that are in the closest contact with the children who need the most support. However, very often they are unprepared for the challenge. As a TA/ classroom aide, you can have a huge impact on a child's life, but beware, unless you know the strategies to be effective, your help can actually damage the child's learning. In this course you will learn about effective learning support and lots and lots of concepts and key terms in the field of special needs, reading intervention, and language impairment. This course will prepare you intellectually for one of the most rewarding and impactful jobs you can get: being a Teaching Assistant / classroom aide. In this course you will learn about: - The role of the Teaching Assistant/ classroom aide. - How to differentiate tasks. - What is scaffolding in education and how to use it. - How to support children who struggle to read. - How to use phonics to teach a child to read. - How to support a child's reading comprehension. - How to help learners with memory difficulties. - How to support children with language impairment. - How to get a Teaching Assistant job in a school. - The most common cognitive and learning difficulties that you will find in your job as a Teaching Assistant/ classroom aide.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 About me and why you should trust me :)

Lecture 2 My life as a Teaching Assistant (TA)

Lecture 3 The role of the Teaching Assistant (TA)

Lecture 4 Two key terms: SEN and EHCP

Lecture 5 The dangers and potential of having a TA

Lecture 6 To be or not to be (an outstanding TA)

Lecture 7 Getting into a school

Section 2: Getting the basics right: differentiation and scaffolding

Lecture 8 Differentiation

Lecture 9 Scaffolding

Lecture 10 Scaffolding is a relationship

Lecture 11 Use scaffolding to make a task easier

Lecture 12 Use scaffolding to make a task more challenging

Section 3: Supporting language development

Lecture 13 About language difficulties and your role

Lecture 14 Attention first!

Lecture 15 Adapt your language

Lecture 16 Acknowledge, recast and expand

Section 4: Supporting children with reading difficulties

Lecture 17 Types of reading difficulties

Lecture 18 How to support fluent decoding (phonics and high frequency words)

Lecture 19 Supporting reading comprehension 1 - knowledge of the world

Lecture 20 Supporting reading comprehension 2- language level

Lecture 21 Supporting reading comprehension 3- working memory

Lecture 22 Supporting reading comprehension 4- Theory of Mind

Section 5: Supporting writing

Lecture 23 Improving your students' spelling

Lecture 24 Creating longer texts

Section 6: Supporting children with memory difficulties

Lecture 25 Types of memory

Lecture 26 Making the most of long-term memory

Lecture 27 Supporting short-term memory

Lecture 28 Supporting children with working memory difficulties

Section 7: Most common learning difficulties you will as a TA

Lecture 29 Dyslexia

Lecture 30 General learning difficulties

Lecture 31 ADHD

Lecture 32 Autism

Section 8: Final exam

People who want to work in education or who want to know more about how to help children learn.