Primary Teaching Assistants

<p><em>Primary Teaching Assistants: Learners and Learning</em> draws together ideas that are of central importance to teaching assistants and other support staff working in primary schools. It presents a rich variety of material written by teachers teaching assistants researchers and parents that has been carefully chosen to offer a broad-based understanding of learning and the contexts in which learners can engage meaningfully with learning. </p> <p><br>This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters on effective communication anti-cyber bullying bullying amongst girls higher level teaching assistants restorative justice and informal learning. Bringing together different perspectives it examines: </p> <p><br>- the changing role of teaching assistants <br>- the nature of learning and assessment <br>- approaches to learning support and inclusive practice <br>- the relationships that are central to learning and children's social development. </p> <p><br>Written for learning support staff and also their teaching colleagues the book aims to enrich the contribution that adults can make to children's learning in schools. <br></p>