TMA01 E111
TMA 01
In keeping with The British Educational Research Association (BERA, 2011) all names have been changed to maintain confidentiality.
1 My role
In my role I work 25 hours a week as a teaching assistant (TA) in a two form entry primary school, I am shared between the Nursery class where we have 49 children aged between 3 and 4, and Reception, where there are 2 classes and a total of 46 children between ages 4 and 5. I can be taken out of either classes due to absences and placed in any class with children up to 11 years old. My roles between the years are completely different. When I work with the nursery there are 4 of us, the teacher and 3 TA’s we work as a team, we welcome the children into the classroom at 8.55am encouraging the children to leave their parent and sit down on the carpet area. Whoever is not on the carpet with the children will then speak with parents about any concerns, and wait for latecomers. I will prepare snacks for the children, while the teacher takes the register and performs a 20 minute organised activity. I will set up outdoor activities with bikes and assault courses, go karts etc depending what we have decided in the previous days planning. I prepare the main indoor activity that is planned, this can be anything from painting, colouring, work in children’s books, baking or cooking. I have 13 children in my own key worker group that I spend time with daily, we might do phonics exercises or talk about any news we may have or even brush our teeth. Our school is currently utilising the Orbit early years application, where we use Ipads to take photographs, observations and track the childrens progress throughout early years. I ensure that I use this daily. It is an excellent tool for parents, giving them an insight of their child’s day. My role in Nursery changes throughout the day, I am one of the school paediatric first aiders so can be taken away from the nursery at any time, to deal with accidents. I compare my
In keeping with The British Educational Research Association (BERA, 2011) all names have been changed to maintain confidentiality.
1 My role
In my role I work 25 hours a week as a teaching assistant (TA) in a two form entry primary school, I am shared between the Nursery class where we have 49 children aged between 3 and 4, and Reception, where there are 2 classes and a total of 46 children between ages 4 and 5. I can be taken out of either classes due to absences and placed in any class with children up to 11 years old. My roles between the years are completely different. When I work with the nursery there are 4 of us, the teacher and 3 TA’s we work as a team, we welcome the children into the classroom at 8.55am encouraging the children to leave their parent and sit down on the carpet area. Whoever is not on the carpet with the children will then speak with parents about any concerns, and wait for latecomers. I will prepare snacks for the children, while the teacher takes the register and performs a 20 minute organised activity. I will set up outdoor activities with bikes and assault courses, go karts etc depending what we have decided in the previous days planning. I prepare the main indoor activity that is planned, this can be anything from painting, colouring, work in children’s books, baking or cooking. I have 13 children in my own key worker group that I spend time with daily, we might do phonics exercises or talk about any news we may have or even brush our teeth. Our school is currently utilising the Orbit early years application, where we use Ipads to take photographs, observations and track the childrens progress throughout early years. I ensure that I use this daily. It is an excellent tool for parents, giving them an insight of their child’s day. My role in Nursery changes throughout the day, I am one of the school paediatric first aiders so can be taken away from the nursery at any time, to deal with accidents. I compare my
References: www.bera.ac.uk, Bera.ac.uk(2011) Bera-ethical-Guidelines-2011 British educational research association London The Open University (2013), ‘Study topic 1: Teaching Assistants’, E111 Supporting learning in primary schools: Book 1, Milton Keynes, The Open University The Open University (2013), ‘Study topic 3: Learners and learning’, E111 Supporting learning in primary schools: Book 1, Milton Keynes, The Open University The Open University (2013), Learners and learning’, E111 Primary Teaching Assistants Learners and learning Roger Hancock, Janet Collins and Mary Stacey, Milton Keynes, The Open University The Open University DVD