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Working with Support in the Classroom

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184 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Over recent years there has been a vast increase in the number of people who support children's learning in classrooms and other educational settings, both as employees and as volunteers. Using stories of successful practice and ideas for improving collaborative work, the book explores and maps the development of the roles in relation to children's learning that can be played by people other than qualified teachers.

The work of teaching assistants, learning mentors, classroom assistants for children with special educational needs, student teachers, nursery nurses, and parent and community helpers are all illustrated in the chapters of the book, which focuses on the whole range of educational settings from the early years through primary to secondary classrooms.
Anne Campbell and Gavin Fairbairn
Introduction
Wendy Bignold
Valuing Diversity: The Role of Support Workers in the Early Years
Wendy Hall
Making the Most of the Teaching Assistant for Special Educational Needs
Pat Hughes
Learning Mentors in Primary Classrooms and Schools
Sue Cronin and Christine Bold
Partners in Mathematical Learning
Sue Crowley and Mike Richardson
Working with Support to Enhance the Use of ICT
Ann-Marie Jones
The Teacher and the Nursery Nurse: Building the Partnership
Deborah Smith and Deirdre Hewitt
Making the Most of an Extra Pair of Hands: Teachers and Student Teachers in the Classroom
Anne Campbell
All Different, All Equal: A Case Study of Support at Temple Primary School
Anne Campbell
Peering into the Future: Two Conversations with Headteachers
Anne Campbell
Developing Successful Practice with Support Staff

'Through working with teaching assistants on courses I know that the balancing of relationships is a central concern.

This book will provide a valuable opportunity to extend this experience during Initial Teacher Training. Readers at all levels of experience will be able to reflect on how to develop creative and constructive paths leading to a partnership of professionals, and to make teams work in a way that really benefits the learning of children in their care.' - Min Wilkie, School of Education, University of Leicester

'The publication of this book is most timely. As the plans for the remodelling of the school workforce begin to take shape, further complexities surrounding the area continue to be exposed. This book addresses many of these and does so in an accessible and thought provoking way. Simplistic answers to how best we can work with support in the classroom are not provided, but different ways of approaching the question are. By reading about, and engaging with, fictionalised accounts, case studies, stories and vignettes, the reader is transported across the whole range of educational settings, exploring the myriad definitions of classroom "support"' - Dr Iris Keating, Manchester Metropolitan University


I would recommend this book to all teachers as it would help them to make best use of support within the classroom. It was useful for teaching assistants to see what they could be doing and ways to support the class teacher without taking too much control.

Mrs Gwyneth Walsham
School of Teaching and Learning, Gateshead College
November 28, 2012

Sample Materials & Chapters

Introduction (pdf file 67kb)


Anne Campbell

Anne is Professor of Professional Learning at Leeds Metropolitan University. More About Author

Gavin Fairbairn

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