Overview
Temporary, Daily and Long term roles – Teaching Assistants – Primary, Secondary and SEN in West London
Teaching Assistant
£60-£70 per day
Teaching Assistant
Are you looking for a rewarding prospect within education as a teaching assistant? Supreme Recruitment are currently recruiting for qualified and experienced teaching assistants, based in the West London area. We would be grateful if candidates have teaching assistant experience in primary, secondary and SEN schools.
What is required from a teaching assistant?
To be a teaching assistant you need an interest in education. A patient, non-judgemental attitude and a passion to see young people succeed.
Teaching assistant’s support learning activities in schools and nurseries. They can work with individual pupils or with groups of children.
As a teaching assistant you would be supporting pupils across a range of abilities as well as undertaking duties that free up a teacher’s time, such as preparing the classroom.
Some teaching assistant will work exclusively with pupils with special educational needs (SEN) or with those with other specific needs.
Responsibilities
Your duties will depend on your experience, training and teaching assistant status but you will generally need to:
- Deliver tailored teaching activities to pupils on either a one-to-one basis or in small groups;
- Make sure that the pupils that you support are able to engage in learning and stay on task during the lesson or activity;
- Support the social and emotional development of pupils, reporting any issues as necessary;
- Manage challenging pupil behaviour;
- Guide and monitor pupil progress;
- Carry out administrative duties such as preparing classroom resources;
- Provide support outside of your normal classes, such as helping during exams, covering teaching assistant absences or going on school trips;
- Help with extracurricular activity such as breakfast and after-school clubs, homework club, revision sessions or lunch-time duties;
- Co-ordinate specific areas of teaching support once you have the right level of experience.
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