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Direct linkWebster, Rob; Blatchford, Peter; Russell, Anthony – School Leadership & Management, 2013
Following research on the negative impact of support from teaching assistants (TAs) on pupils' academic progress, there was a clear need for schools to fundamentally reassess the way they use TAs. This article reports on findings from a collaborative project aimed at developing and evaluating alternative strategies to using TAs. Practitioner-led…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Students, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
Blatchford, Peter; Russell, Anthony; Webster, Rob – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Over the last decade, teaching assistants (TAs) have become an established part of everyday classroom life. TAs are often used by schools to help low-attaining pupils and those with special educational needs. Yet despite the huge rise in the number of TAs working in UK classrooms, very little is known about their impact on pupils. This key and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Aides, Program Effectiveness, Observation
Webster, Rob; Blatchford, Peter; Bassett, Paul; Brown, Penelope; Martin, Clare; Russell, Anthony – School Leadership & Management, 2011
Teaching assistants (TAs) comprise a quarter of the school workforce in England and Wales. There has been controversy over TAs' deployment and appropriate role regarding supporting learning and these debates have been transformed by findings from the largest study of school support staff (the DISS project), which show that TA support has a…
Descriptors: Role Models, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, School Support
The Impact of Support Staff on Pupils' "Positive Approaches to Learning" and Their Academic Progress
Blatchford, Peter; Bassett, Paul; Brown, Penelope; Martin, Clare; Russell, Anthony; Webster, Rob – British Educational Research Journal, 2011
In recent years there has been an unprecedented increase in support staff in schools in England and Wales. There were widespread expectations that this will be of benefit to teachers and pupils but there has been little systematic research to address the impact of support staff. This study used a naturalistic longitudinal design to investigate the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Naturalistic Observation, Paraprofessional School Personnel
Blatchford, Peter; Russell, Anthony; Bassett, Paul; Brown, Penelope; Martin, Clare – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
It is widely assumed that increasing the number of teaching assistants (TAs) in the classroom will be beneficial to children, and this is one important aim of the recently implemented Workforce Agreement. But there are still significant gaps in knowledge about many aspects of their deployment and impact. The Class Size and Pupil-Adult Ratios…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods, Longitudinal Studies, Questionnaires
