The following five modules are live and ready to use.
Additional modules are in development and will be available soon.
Child development
Understanding how children and young people develop is crucial to your role as a teaching assistant.
Understanding the typical stages and rates of development will help you to support children and young people appropriately so that they thrive, learn and make progress.
This module aims to develop your knowledge and understanding of:
- Child and young person development, including underpinning theoretical perspectives
- Factors that may affect development
- Actions taken when differences in development are identified.
Safeguarding the welfare of children and young people
This module is about the way you keep children and young people healthy and safe.
This module aims to develop your knowledge of:
- How to work with children and young people to support their health, safety and well-being
- How to respond to accidents, incidents and emergency situations
- How to respond to evidence or concerns that a child or young person has been abused, harmed or bullied
Schools as organisations
This module will provide you with information about the context in which you work and your role as a teaching assistant working as part of a team in the best interests of children in your school/setting.
In this module you will learn about:
- The structure of the English education system
- How schools are organised, in terms of roles and responsibilities
- School ethos, mission, aims and values
- Values, legislation, policies, procedures and the national context
Supporting individuals to meet personal care needs
This module focuses on pupils with considerable personal care needs. It provides principles for the personal care of any child or young person.
In this module you will:
- Gain knowledge of the principles of effective, safe and integrated personal care for children and young people
- Develop skills and competence in providing personal care for children and young people
- Learn to monitor and report on support for personal care
Supporting teaching, learning and assessment
Understanding how children and young people learn best is important to the role as teaching assistant.
This module aims to develop:
- Plan and deliver learning activities appropriate for the groups that you support
- Assess the learning of pupils and using this information to shape further learning activities
- Understand of the importance of reviewing and evaluating learning.
Coming soon...
- Promoting positive behaviour
- Relationships and communication
- Equality and diversity
- Providing personal care
- Leading interventions
- The learning environment
- Supporting bilingual learners
- Providing bilingual support
- Supporting Pupils with Behavioural Difficulties
- Lunchtime supervision
- Transitions and resilience
- Introduction to SEND