What you'll learn
How to support children with SEN
How to provide an effective scaffold and how to differentiate
What the roles of a Teaching Assistant are
How to help children with memory difficulties
Requirements
Interest in helping children to learn
Description
Teaching Assistants/ classroom aides are often the members of the staff that are in the closest contact with the children who need the most support. However, very often they are unprepared for the challenge. As a TA/ classroom aide, you can have a huge impact on a child's life, but beware, unless you know the strategies to be effective, your help can actually damage the child's learning. In this course you will learn about effective learning support and lots and lots of concepts and key terms in the field of special needs, reading intervention, and language impairment. This course will prepare you intellectually for one of the most rewarding and impactful jobs you can get: being a Teaching Assistant / classroom aide. In this course you will learn about: - The role of the Teaching Assistant/ classroom aide. - How to differentiate tasks. - What is scaffolding in education and how to use it. - How to support children who struggle to read. - How to use phonics to teach a child to read. - How to support a child's reading comprehension. - How to help learners with memory difficulties. - How to support children with language impairment. - How to get a Teaching Assistant job in a school. - The most common cognitive and learning difficulties that you will find in your job as a Teaching Assistant/ classroom aide.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 About me and why you should trust me :)
Lecture 2 My life as a Teaching Assistant (TA)
Lecture 3 The role of the Teaching Assistant (TA)
Lecture 4 Two key terms: SEN and EHCP
Lecture 5 The dangers and potential of having a TA
Lecture 6 To be or not to be (an outstanding TA)
Lecture 7 Getting into a school
Section 2: Getting the basics right: differentiation and scaffolding
Lecture 8 Differentiation
Lecture 9 Scaffolding
Lecture 10 Scaffolding is a relationship
Lecture 11 Use scaffolding to make a task easier
Lecture 12 Use scaffolding to make a task more challenging
Section 3: Supporting language development
Lecture 13 About language difficulties and your role
Lecture 14 Attention first!
Lecture 15 Adapt your language
Lecture 16 Acknowledge, recast and expand
Section 4: Supporting children with reading difficulties
Lecture 17 Types of reading difficulties
Lecture 18 How to support fluent decoding (phonics and high frequency words)
Lecture 19 Supporting reading comprehension 1 - knowledge of the world
Lecture 20 Supporting reading comprehension 2- language level
Lecture 21 Supporting reading comprehension 3- working memory
Lecture 22 Supporting reading comprehension 4- Theory of Mind
Section 5: Supporting writing
Lecture 23 Improving your students' spelling
Lecture 24 Creating longer texts
Section 6: Supporting children with memory difficulties
Lecture 25 Types of memory
Lecture 26 Making the most of long-term memory
Lecture 27 Supporting short-term memory
Lecture 28 Supporting children with working memory difficulties
Section 7: Most common learning difficulties you will as a TA
Lecture 29 Dyslexia
Lecture 30 General learning difficulties
Lecture 31 ADHD
Lecture 32 Autism
Section 8: Final exam
People who want to work in education or who want to know more about how to help children learn.


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