NOW AVAILABLE

What is the Teaching Assistant's Planner & Guide?

Teaching Assistants are a crucial part of the support structure of any school.  The 'Teaching Assistant's Planner & Guide' is not only a diary/planner for the academic year 2008-09 but also offers practical advice on providing effective support in OVER FORTY different areas.

A good Classroom Assistant can help promote learning and raise standards within the school when given the correct tools; this Teaching Assistant’s Planner & Guide provides effective strategies that can be implemented throughout the school day.

Weekly guidance sections include advice on :-

Angry Children
ADHD & ADD
Behaviour
Confrontations
Differentiation
Disclosure
Equal Opportunities
Inclusion
Maslow – Survival Mode
Positive Language
Self Esteem – Help Increase It
Special Educational Needs
Visual Timetable

and many more.

A dated 2008-2009 diary, planner and guide designed specifically for Teaching Assistants.

• Sturdy A5 wiro-bound, 416 page planner
• Page-a-day format
• Up to eight period day
• Fully bound-in PVC pocket for loose documents
• Daily sections for Subject, Key Objectives, Further Actions, To Do section
• Extra notes page every week
• Weekly advice and tips pages
• Pupil records pages
• Class records/marks/registration pages
• Many more useful organisational pages

Review from Summer Term 2 2008 issue of Learning Support magazine -

"This planner and guide is written by a teaching assistant, for teaching assistants.  It's a nice combination of planner and pocket advice book, and is general enough to be relevant to all TAs, including classroom assistants, SEN TAs and HLTAs.

With a smart hardback cover, it will serve as a work diary for the whole year, with a page for each day seperated into sections for each lesson of the day, plus an extra notes page for each week.  It also contains various planning and admin resources, such as ready-made blank registers (just put the children's names in), pupil record sheets, and blank timetables.

As well as being a useful organisational tool, the guide contains a variety of snippers of information and advice on subjects relevant to TAs, such as behaviour management, taking small groups, supporting the whole class, child protection and bullying.  Alongside these tips are suggestions of places to go for more information.

The planner and guide has the potential not only to help you to be well-organised at work, but also to put a lot of useful information and ideas at your fingertips.  The only minus point is perhaps the fact that it is in the Comic Sans font which always reminds me of a Key Stage 1 activity sheet."

THE TEACHING ASSISTANT'S PLANNER AND GUIDE IS NOW AVAILABLE - HERE