Leadership · Collection
Developing Your Role as a Teaching Assistant Within Secondary Schools
Hold your own with teenagers you've only just met, keep lessons on track, and speak up when professionals meet about a pupil.
- 4 courses
- 2 hours 9 minutes
- Any order
14 days free, then £70 a year or £7 a month.
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About this collection
In a secondary school a teaching assistant might work with six classes in a day, some of them for the first time, and a request to cover a lesson can land with five minutes' notice. Teenagers are quick to test a new adult.
Getting them on side starts in the first few minutes, with habits like giving the likely tester a job. You'll also learn the routines and motivation that head off low-level disruption before it starts. Outside the classroom, you'll know who's likely to be round the table at a TAC or EHCP review meeting and what they need from you.
The aim is a TA who is steady in any room, whether that's a Year 9 lesson or a multi-agency meeting.
What you'll learn
- Get a class you don't know on side in the first few minutes
- Choose a few non-negotiables and hold them calmly
- Motivate pupils with hooks and tasks that have a real purpose
- Deal with low-level disruption without stopping the lesson
- Contribute facts, not hunches, at TAC and EHCP review meetings
Courses
- 4 courses
- 2 hours 9 minutes