Working with Support in the Classroom / Edition 1

by Anne Campbell, Gavin Fairbairn

Overview

Using stories of successful practice and ideas for improving collaborative work, the book explores and maps the development of the roles in relation to children's learning that can be played by people other than qualified teachers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412902410
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/23/2005
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anne is Professor of Professional Learning at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Anne Campbell and Gavin Fairbairn
Valuing Diversity: The Role of Support Workers in the Early Years - Wendy Bignold
Making the Most of the Teaching Assistant for Special Educational Needs - Wendy Hall
Learning Mentors in Primary Classrooms and Schools - Pat Hughes
Partners in Mathematical Learning - Sue Cronin and Christine Bold
Working with Support to Enhance the Use of ICT - Sue Crowley and Mike Richardson
The Teacher and the Nursery Nurse: Building the Partnership - Ann-Marie Jones
Making the Most of an Extra Pair of Hands: Teachers and Student Teachers in the Classroom - Deborah Smith and Deirdre Hewitt
All Different, All Equal: A Case Study of Support at Temple Primary School - Anne Campbell
Peering into the Future: Two Conversations with Headteachers - Anne Campbell
Developing Successful Practice with Support Staff - Anne Campbell

Editorial Reviews

'Through working with teaching assistants on courses I know that the balancing of relationships is a central concern.

This book will provide a valuable opportunity to extend this experience during Initial Teacher Training. Readers at all levels of experience will be able to reflect on how to develop creative and constructive paths leading to a partnership of professionals, and to make teams work in a way that really benefits the learning of children in their care.' - Min Wilkie, School of Education, University of Leicester

'The publication of this book is most timely. As the plans for the remodelling of the school workforce begin to take shape, further complexities surrounding the area continue to be exposed. This book addresses many of these and does so in an accessible and thought provoking way. Simplistic answers to how best we can work with support in the classroom are not provided, but different ways of approaching the question are. By reading about, and engaging with, fictionalised accounts, case studies, stories and vignettes, the reader is transported across the whole range of educational settings, exploring the myriad definitions of classroom "support "' - Dr Iris Keating, Manchester Metropolitan University

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