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Lead a Team of Support Staff – Being a Team Player

Lead the teaching assistants you used to work alongside, by setting the standard yourself and keeping every change about the child.

  • 29 minutes
  • 6 modules
  • 0.5 CPD hours
  • Certificate

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What you'll learn

  • Model the professional conduct you expect from your team in your own daily practice
  • Choose a leadership style that fits the task, and switch when the task changes
  • Use pupil and parent views and one-page profiles to guide TA practice
  • Write measurable SEND targets that show both pupil progress and TA impact

About this course

Promotion from within the team is a mixed blessing. You know the school and the children, but your colleagues know exactly how you used to do things. When a request meets a flat response, it's tempting to slip back into being one of the group.

It pays to decide how you'll lead before you start. You'll work through the conduct standards for teaching assistants and what modelling each looks like, down to checking on a vulnerable pupil before anyone raises a concern. You'll also compare three leadership styles, and when each suits a quick change everyone must make by Monday or a new intervention the team needs to shape.

Keeping the child at the centre gives you firm ground when you challenge practice. Pupil views, parent views and one-page profiles show what should change, and a measurable target (two ten-minute tasks, logged on a tally chart) shows whether it has.

  • For middle leaders and support staff. All phases.

6 modules

Open in order

  1. Introduction

    3 min

  2. Wrap up

    2 min

  3. Working alongside

    7 min

  4. Valuing contributions

    6 min

  5. Child centred approach

    6 min

  6. Focussed target setting

    7 min