Teaching Assistants Box of Tricks
The Teaching Assistants’ Box of Tricks is a 128-page book with an accompanying CD that holds the e-resources – selected pages from the book for use in the classroom presented as pdfs and editable pages for photocopying or display on an interactive whiteboard. This is a book for teaching assistants and for teachers. It is designed to give teaching assistants engaging activities that help them to support pupils in science lessons. The author discusses the situations that face teaching assistants every day and provides a wealth of practical strategies that work to move learners on whatever their starting point. The practical strategies are supported by information on the role of teaching assistants; organization and planning of classroom support; a briefing on progression, levelness and gradeness; ideas for sharing good practice, and becoming a higher level teaching assistant. The ideas and strategies can be freely shared between teachers and teaching assistants. A science department using the strategies in this book will have a valuable resource to support learners in the classroom that will make the teaching assistant’s contribution to learning more effective.

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