Teaching Assistant Role

Task 1

The roles and duties for my role as a Teaching Assistant is to always meet the needs of the children. I am there to support not only the children but also the class teacher to make sure that the children have the best start to their education as possible. My daily timetable as a TA is meeting and greeting the reception children when they come in to the class room. I then would get some children to read 1:1 with me these children are either pupil premium or they are behind in their reading. Then I move on by taking a group of the low ability to do some phonics. After this I normally go outside with a group and take observations of the children. We then proceeded on to English and maths where I would take a group for each. I then help

As part of the school development plan all teachers and TA’s where sent to different primary schools to see what their environment was like as well as how they teach their lessons. This helped me bring new activities to my school and apply them when teaching the children. By having new activates in your phonics or the lesson you are teaching it make it interesting and makes the children want to join in.

I will be attending a course in May which is a reading course. This will help me understand how to help children read as well as it will give me good ideas and tips on what I can do to help me improve my teaching.

When you are learning new things it is always going to improve your practise some of the things you learn you may not be able to apply straight away or it might not be suitable for the Year you work it but it will always be useful to have knowledge and different areas behind you.

Task

I observed Aimee taking a small English group, during the time of the observation Aimee we teaching the emerging children different phonics sounds. She was able to keep the group under control by using our school rule finger on nose when wanting to speak. She was enthusiastic about teaching the children and praised them when they could tell her the correct sound. Aimee praised the children that still didn’t get the right sound but she encouraged them to care on. Aimee used small word cards and got each children to read the word of their card this was to help them with their reading as it says on the planning. After the observation the three of us sat down and spoke about what Aimee’s strengths and weaknesses are this will be put into her CPD to carry on during school time.

Discussion points with Supervisor

During the time of feedback I asked Aimee how she thought the observation went Aimee was able to give point of where she thought she did well but she was able to pick up on areas that she could develop. Aimee what very good at saying what she needed to improve on and what she could do to improve on the area herself. We worked together to think of some areas of development for Aimee’s CPD we agreed that Aimee will be sent on some courses to help her improve her knowledge of teaching. Aimee will also observe other TA’s teaching phonics to help her to plan when it comes to the exceeding