Supporting every child / Gillian Goddard, Anita Walton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goddard, Gillian, author.

Walton, Anita, author.

Series:

Sage knowledge.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers' assistants--Great Britain.

Teachers' assistants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2017.

Summary:

This course book is for all degree students who are support staff, particularly teaching assistants (TAs), working in educational settings. It focuses on professional, academic and vocational issues that are common to support workers across the school sectors, and provides essential guidance on the increasingly complex role of all those involved in teaching and supporting learning. The reader is supported throughout by learning objectives, practical and reflective tasks, relevant case studies and chapter summaries. This new edition has been extensively revised to reflect recent changes in legislation, policy and the curriculum. It includes new or significantly amended chapters; on the development of support staff; supporting pupils in crisis; learning in the early years; inclusion, SEN and phonics.

Contents:

chapter 1. Introduction : the role and scope of support staff in education practice

chapter 2. Support staff as professionals

chapter 3. Working with other professionals

chapter 4. Supporting the whole child

chapter 5. Inclusion and SEN

chapter 6. Behaviour for learning

chapter 7. Teaching and learning

chapter 8. Managing change

chapter 9. Teaching reading using synthetic phonics

chapter 10. Supporting pupils through crisis

chapter 11. Supporting learning in the early years

chapter 12. Education in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Part of the SAGE Knowledge collection.

Description based on MARC record for print version.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781526408105 (ebook) :

OCLC:

1017722174

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.