This free online course covers the fundamental ideas, practices and skills that a teaching assistant needs to know. A teaching assistant is also known as a ‘TA’ or ‘teacher's aide’. This course covers the fundamental principles and credentials required of a teaching assistant. In addition, we analyse professional advancements and the most effective method of implementing school regulations. You will gain knowledge about the curriculum and supervision. By the end of the course, you will learn the whole school environment and how to deal with behavioural issues.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 191950 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 3-4 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Analyse the professional growth involved in becoming a teaching assistant • Explain the teaching assistant's collaboration with the school and its policies • Describe numerous curricular, evaluation and monitoring talks you need to have as a teaching assistant • Identify how to create the optimal atmosphere for learning as a teaching assistant • Discuss how a teaching assistant may implement ICT, literacy and numeracy development methods • Evaluate child development and SEN services • Summarise behaviour relationships as a teaching assistant |
| Course Code | 384 |

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