Primary teaching assistants
Subtitle: learners and learning
By: edited by Roger Hancock, Janet Collins and Mary Stacey
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Published in association with the open university
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415504300; 9780415504317; 9780203128381
Subjects: EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / General; EDUCATION / General; Teachers' assistants; Elementary Education; EDUCATION / Elementary
Description: "Primary Teaching Assistants: Learners and Learning draws together the key ideas that are of central importance to teaching assistants and other support staff working in primary schools. It presents a rich variety of material written by teachers, teaching assistants, researchers and parents, that has been carefully chosen to offer a broad-based understanding of learning and the contexts in which learners can engage with learning. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new sections on after school clubs, outdoor learning and assertiveness. Bringing together different perspectives it examines: - the changing role of teaching assistants - the nature of learning and assessment - approaches to learning support and inclusive practices - the relationships that are central to learning and social development Written for learning support staff and their teaching colleagues, the book aims to enrich the contribution that teaching assistants can make to children's learning"--