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Brown, Geraint; Brown, Ruth; Goullée, Corinne; Stanford, Matt – Teaching History, 2016
The history department at Cottenham Village College has one more member than you might expect. Ruth Brown is a teaching assistant (TA) and one of the longest-standing members of the department, and this article is about how her work has an impact on specific pupils, whole classes and teachers. The key factor is that Ruth has excellent subject…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Aides, History Instruction, Secondary Education
Karademir, Abdulhamit; Cingi, Mehmet Akif; Dereli, Fatih; Akman, Berrin – Online Submission, 2017
As the importance attached to preschool education has increased in recent years, researchers have begun to discuss the quality of educational and care services. This study aims to show the views of assistant teachers working at preschool educational institutions concerning quality, investigate their influence on quality, and reveal the effect of…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Aides, Attitude Measures
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Campillo, José María; Sánchez, Raquel; Miralles, Pedro – English Language Teaching, 2019
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) has been one of the major innovations that has been implemented in Spain in the last decades and many questions have arisen in relation to its effectiveness. The aim of this article is to report primary teachers' perceptions of the most relevant aspects of CLIL teaching of Science and Social Science…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pérez Agustín, Mercedes – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has emerged as a response to Europe's calls for increasing plurilingualism, due to its dual-focused approach which aims to foster and consolidate both non-language subject matter and language learning. As the approach becomes more widespread, more resources become available to help teachers facing…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Course Content
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Sharma, Umesh; Salend, Spencer J. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
This article reviewed international data from English-language peer-reviewed studies on the use of TAs in inclusive classrooms from the past 10 years concerning: (a) the roles of TAs; (b) the impact of TAs on students, educators, and inclusive education; and (c) the factors that influence the performance of TAs. These studies suggest that unclear…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Inclusion, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Paraprofessional School Personnel
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Thorstensson Dávila, Liv – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This article presents a qualitative study of how the individual roles and ideologies of four Arabic and Somali bilingual classroom assistants at an elementary school in Sweden both mirror and challenge larger discourses about language, education and social integration. Data were analyzed using the theoretical constructs of positioning and reveal…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Role Models, Bilingualism
Conahan, Jeanne Shober – ProQuest LLC, 2018
As the population of English Learners (ELs) continues to rise in the United States, there is a need to investigate the efficacy of teachers who are assigned to instruct them. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that contribute to teacher efficacy when mainstream elementary/middle school teachers instruct ELs while addressing the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, School Districts
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Gibson, Dianne; Paatsch, Louise; Toe, Dianne – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2016
In Victoria, Australia, one of the major roles of the teachers' aide (TA) is to assist students with disabilities to access their education. Researchers have identified the inconsistencies in defining the roles of the TA, in a variety of settings, by TAs, teachers, parents, and other research participants. Four main themes that have been…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Role, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Vázquez, Víctor Pavón; Lancaster, Nina; Callejas, Carmen Bretones – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This paper presents the outcomes of a Spanish study on aspects of the background, skills and perceptions of three groups of teachers -- content teachers, language teachers and language assistants -- working to implement CLIL in the monolingual area of Andalusia, Spain. The research was based on a questionnaire completed by 130 informants and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Course Content, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lim, Jacqueline; McCabe, Patricia; Purcell, Alison – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2019
This study explored the feasibility of training school teaching assistants to provide the treatment, Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing to treat childhood apraxia of speech (CAS, also known as developmental verbal dyspraxia). The study used a single case experimental design across behaviours and a qualitative evaluation of teaching assistant…
Descriptors: Tactual Perception, Cues, Teaching Methods, Case Studies
Cramer, Travis; Cappella, Elise – Grantee Submission, 2019
Scholarship and policy emphasize strengthening the early childhood education (ECE) workforce, but this work neglects a large segment of the workforce: assistant teachers. The present study responds to gaps in knowledge by examining the demographic characteristics, qualifications, professional supports, and workplace experiences of assistant…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Coaching (Performance), Collegiality, On the Job Training
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Davison, Patricia; Duffy, Joseph – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2017
This article details a mixed methods study designed to examine the impact of a group process consultation model in helping staff manage challenging behaviour in the nurture group setting. It relates to two geographical clusters of staff, including teachers and teaching assistants, running 11 nurture groups in a major metropolitan area in the UK,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Consultation Programs, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Sennott, Samuel C.; Mason, Linda H. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2016
This pilot study describes an intervention package, MODELER for Read and Talk, designed to provide enriched language interaction for children with complex communication needs who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). MODELER (Model, Encourage, Respond) includes (a) modeling AAC as you speak, (b) encouraging communication…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Handheld Devices, Story Reading, Intervention
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Williams, Debbie – Kairaranga, 2016
Teachers are often faced with the challenge of teaching students with high functioning autism without any formal professional development in autism. Resource Teachers of Learning and Behaviour (RTLB) are a service which is able to provide short-term support for teachers. One of the roles of RTLB is to provide teachers with the required support to…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Faculty Development
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Salter, Jackie M.; Swanwick, Ruth A.; Pearson, Susan E. – Deafness & Education International, 2017
This paper presents findings from an empirical study that investigated the learning experiences of deaf students in mainstream secondary classrooms, from teaching assistants' (TA) perspectives. These findings indicate that effective collaboration between mainstream teachers and specialist teachers of the deaf (ToD) is required to ensure…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Deafness, Teacher Collaboration
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