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Reviewing your TAs
- Description:
- An effective team of teaching assistants is one of the greatest assets a school can have. In order to make sure you are getting the most from yours use this presentation to review your current practice.
- Submitted On:
- 24/08/2010
Auditing your TAs
- Description:
- In order to improve teaching assistant provision you need to know what's happening now. This questionnaire is intended for TAs to complete to clarify what their current role is.
- Submitted On:
- 24/08/2010
TA confidence
- Description:
- How do your teaching assistants feel about the work they do? This questionnaire is aimed at establishing strengths and weaknesses and the preferences that your staff have.
- Submitted On:
- 24/08/2010
Deployment of Teaching Assistants
- Description:
- Once you have completed your audit and you have consulted with your staff, then you need to bring the information together and present your ideas for discussion.
- Submitted On:
- 24/08/2010
TA training log
- Description:
- This training log can be used to help plan future training needs for your teaching assistants and how they will be delivered
- Submitted On:
- 24/08/2010
Performance review for TAs
- Description:
- Use this pro forma to discuss the successes and achievements, areas for development and training needs of your TAs.
- Submitted On:
- 24/08/2010
TAs - action planning
- Description:
- How do you plan for improvement in the way your TAs work and are deployed? This extract from an action plan suggests how you might identify your intended outcomes and set your success criteria
- Submitted On:
- 24/08/2010
Plugging the budget gap
- Description:
- With BSF on the scrapheap and the government’s cuts biting hard, schools are looking round for new sources of funding. Joell Mayoh looks at some of the schemes on offer.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Heads’ pay hits the headlines
- Description:
- Big salaries for some school leaders have drawn criticism recently from some commentators. Is it all phoney media outrage, or do some heads get more than a fair share?
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Editorial - The strange rejection of Ravenscroft
- Description:
- DfE officials are comparing the coalition government’s education policies to the ‘shock and awe’ beginnings to the invasion of Iraq. All vim and vigour but precious little thought as to the implementation or consequences of the policies, or the aftermath ...
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Engineering a better future
- Description:
- Some inspirational schemes are encouraging young people to study science, maths, engineering and technology. Mark Williams of the Engineering Development Trust tells all.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Free schools in action – USA style
- Description:
- An unforgettable recent visit to New York City opened students’ eyes to a wider world. Teacher Howard William and three of the young learners give their perspectives.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Future Schools: Future Leaders
- Description:
- What leadership is needed for schools of the future? Future Leaders was established in 2006 to develop the next generation of leaders for the nation’s most challenging schools. James Croft interviews CEO Heath Monk.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
How to save £150,000
- Description:
- With budget cuts closing fast, SLT’s school finance expert Malcolm Trobe gives an invaluable case study in how to make quick savings without hampering students’ learning.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Imagine an end to failure
- Description:
- They claim to improve our children’s education – but government interventions, Ofsted and ‘top-down’ planning can make matters worse, as Bernard Barker’s telling case study shows.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Leadership Briefing - Report update
- Description:
- Leadership Briefing is a weekly online summary of all that’s new and relevant to education, linked to original source documents that can be downloaded or viewed on screen, and available to everyone in your school leadership team. The briefings here give a sample of what’s on offer.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Manager’s Briefcase
- Description:
- In this issue of the Briefcase we include documents to support school leaders in managing and leading teaching assistants. These could be used to accompany the presentations and notes in the Primary File section of the magazine.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
News
- Description:
- The latest stories relevant to school leadership.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Outdoor learning – a hit with pupils
- Description:
- In the last SLT we discovered a wonderful outdoor learning development at St Bede’s Catholic High School. This time we’re looking at how it was implemented with a business partnership from Marshalls – and the pupils’ delighted response.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Staffing and the law
- Description:
- Make sure your school’s recruitment decisions stay on the right side of new regulations, with this issue’s Legal Briefing from Stephen Szemerenyi.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
The problem with primary science
- Description:
- Staff in primary schools lack the skills to teach science effectively, says a new study by the Royal Society – which calls for government intervention to improve matters.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Time to move on?
- Description:
- This month our Leadership Dilemma examines perhaps the biggest quandary of all in headship – whether to stay on in the job when you feel a change of career might be needed.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
What is a thinking school?
- Description:
- Many attempts to introduce thinking skills into schools have faltered. Bob Burden gives clear advice on how intentions to introduce a cognitive curriculum do not have to remain simply wide-eyed aspirations.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
Primary File
- Description:
- The section of SLT dedicated specially to issues concerning primary schools.
- Submitted On:
- 11/10/2010
