Teaching Vacancies
Higher Level Teaching Assistant
Key Responsibilities
- Plan and prepare lessons with teachers, participating in all stages of the planning cycle, including evaluating and adjusting lesson plans.
- Develop and prepare resources for learning activities.
- Contribute to the planning of opportunities for students to learn in out-of-school contexts in line with school policies and procedures.
- Teach whole classes covering PPA within an agreed system of supervision and lesson framework.
- Provide detailed verbal and written feedback on lesson content, student responses to learning, and student behaviour, to teachers and students.
- Motivate and progress students learning by using clearly structured interesting teaching and learning activities.
- Be familiar with lesson plans, IEP targets, and learning objectives.
- Use behaviour management strategies, in line with the schools policy and procedures, to contribute to a purposeful learning environment and encourage students to interact and work cooperatively with others.
- Support the role of parents in students learning and contribute to/lead meetings with parents to provide constructive feedback on student progress, achievement, and behaviour, maintaining sensitivity and confidentiality at all times.
- Assist teachers in evaluating progress through a range of assessment activities.
- Assist in maintaining and analyzing records of students progress.
- Support and guide other less experienced teaching assistants work in the classroom when required and lead training for other support staff.
- Recognise and challenge any incident forming abuse of equal opportunities, ensuring compliance with relevant school policies.
- Understand and implement school child protection policies and comply with legal responsibilities.
- Foster and maintain constructive and supportive relationships with parents/carers, exchanging appropriate information, facilitating their support for their childs attendance, access, and learning, and supporting home to school and community links.
Skills and Expertise
- Planning and lesson preparation
- Resource development
- Classroom management
- Behaviour management
- Assessment and evaluation
- Student progress monitoring
- Communication with parents
- Child protection
- Equal opportunities