Effective Deployment of Teaching Assistants

Interventions – Developing a New Mindset

The Effective Deployment TAs on Intervention Programmes

• Introductions

• A New Beginning

• The Journey of the Teaching Assistant

• Tried and (road) Tested!

• Putting it all Together

• Proving Impact

• The Road Ahead

A New Beginning

• Fresh Eyes – looking at what we were doing

• Reviewing Whole School SEN

• Challenging the effectiveness of Interventions already in place

• Challenge - Change the Mind-set of the teaching staff

• Reassessing the Deployment of the Teaching Assistant

The Journey of the Teaching Assistant

• Job title changes over the years

• How can a teaching assistant be effective?

• Enabling the Teaching Assistant to have an Impact – It’s all in the Mindset!

• In the classroom – out of the classroom

The Journey of the Teaching Assistant

• Deployment and Impact of Support Staff in Schools and the Impact of the National Agreement Blatchford P, Bassett P, Brown P, Martin C, Anthony Russell A and Webster R with S and Naomi Haywood N Institute of Education, University of London 2005/06

• DEPLOYMENT AND IMPACT OF SUPPORT STAFF PROJECT Blatchford, P., Bassett, P., Brown, P., Martin, c., Russell, A. and Webster, R. Institute of Education, University of London 2009

• Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants Guidance Report

Sharples, J., Webster, R., Blatchford, P. The Education Endowment Foundation London 2015

The Journey of the Teaching Assistant

Professional Standards for teaching assistants

• Personal and professional conduct

• Knowledge and understanding

• Teaching and learning

• Working with others

The Journey of the Teaching Assistant

Knowledge and understanding

• Take responsibility for sound knowledge and understanding to support progress

• Knowledge and skills appropriate to deployment e.g. subject knowledge, complex needs

Teaching and learning

• To promote inclusion by encouraging participation of pupils learning

• Communicate effectively and sensitively with pupils to adapt to their needs and support their learning

• Contribute to assessment and planning

The Journey of the Teaching Assistant

Working with others

• Liaising effectively and working in partnership with others

• Keep teachers informed of progress or concerns

• Share knowledge to inform planning and decision making

Personal and professional conduct

• Clear understanding of their role and responsibilities

• An awareness of the wider structure of the school

Tried and (road) Tested!

• Assessing existing interventions and intervention programmes

• Matching intervention to assessed need

• Trying something new – Lab Rats!

• Being honest when it did not work!

Putting it all Together

• Testing new interventions and the effectiveness of them

• Assessing children and using information to support the children’s needs through interventions

• Staff training

• Rolling out the programmes

• CPD input

• Mapping the Key Stages

Proving Impact

• Initial testing and regular retesting

• Tracking progress

• Evidence in book reviews

• Liaison with Teachers

Tracking Progress

Julie Bovell a.m/

p.m

Sydney Arthur

Josh Parkin

Macy Gregory

Cordell Maunders

Archie Purchase

Sydney Arthur

Josh Parkin

Macy Gregory

Cordell Maunders

Archie Purchase

Sydney Arthur

Josh Parkin

Macy Gregory

Cordell

Maunders

Archie Purchase

Ibrahim Khan

Haydn Mills-

Tarawally

Jack Edlin

Layton T

Archie Harrison

Theo Ray

Olivia Ballard

Teaching

Assistant

A.M

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P.M

Reading Recovery Narrative

Therapy

Precision

Teach

Reading Maths Phonics Hand/W EAL pre

teach

Rachel

Greenacre

a.m/p

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Zachary Cullum

Nicolaos Evans

Abid Rahman

Bobby Russell

Heidi McCarthy

Nicola Pawlowska

Zachary Cullum

Nicolaos Evans

Abid Rahman

Bobby Russell

Heidi McCarthy

Nicola Pawlowska

Sydney Arthur Josh

Parkin

Archie Purchase

Madison Mai

Davies

Zachary Cullum

Nicolaos Evans

Abid Rahman

Heidi McCarthy

Shania Williams

Buddy –Lee Jenks

Paige Balcombe

Bobby Mould

Hastiin Nseera

Kaci Phillips

Sam Laight a.m/p

.m

Olivia Ballard

Reuben Davis

Archie Harrison

Ibrahim Khan

Keven Konieczny

Liam McCarthy

Erin Wray

Felicity Cleverley

Ismail Baig

Benjamin Parker

Madison-Mae

Davies

Bobby Russell

Magda Frackieiocz

Heidi McCarthy

Nicolaos Evans

Abid Rahman

Amy Pilkington

Hastyjot Kaur

Sophie Mitchell

Carlos Potiwal

Ryley Osman

Ronnie O’Connor

James Bailey

Lesley Long a.m/p

.m

Malaki McCormick Malaki McCormick Malaki

McCormick

Sam Macleod a.m Haseeb Ahmed

Kiara Johnson

Fiona Wallace

Kiara Johnson

Haseeb Ahmed

Louise Sales a.m/p

.m

Tim Early

Macy Gregory

Cordell Maunders

Tim Early

Macy Gregory

Cordell Maunders

Tim Early

Macy Gregory

Cordell

Maunders

Tracking Progress

Tracking Progress

The Road Ahead

• Empowering the Teaching Assistant

• CPD and Coaching

• Moving children on

• Next steps

The Icing on the Cake

Where it all began!

The Icing on the Cake

To Dedicated Intervention Areas throughout the School