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Supporting Learning Activities and Assessment for Learning
Assignment 4 – Supporting Learning Activities and Assessment for Learning

QUESTION 1

1a) Explain how a learning support practitioner may contribute to the planning, delivery and review of learning activities

Introduction

Helping in activities would be delivery, if you pass on ideas, observations or suggestions that would be contributing to planning.
Do you give feedback to your teacher about how the sessions went?
The teacher use s that information to inform their planning, so you contribute that way.
Whenever you talk to your teacher about what went well or what aspects of the children struggled with you, you are making a contribution because it helps the teacher plan the next step, so without realising it you are contributing to planning.

Planning
A learning support practitioner or teaching assistant could contribute to planning of an activity simply by an informal discussion with the teacher about what weekly and daily activities will be taking place. This form of planning is known as short term and would be the most likely that a teaching assistant would be involved in.
The teacher may put some time aside to discuss each week’s activities with the teaching assistant, this would normally allow for any suggestions to be made on how to improve or change things, teaching assistants should have a clear understanding of the learning objective for each activity and know what they should be doing to help the children to achieve this.

Delivering
Teaching assistant should be a lot more actively involved in delivering the learning activities. This may be by setting up the room with the correct resources before the lesson takes place and laying out the

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