While the number of teachers in mainstream schools in England has remained relatively steady over the last decade or so, the number of full-time equivalent TAs has more than trebled since 2000: from 79,000 to 243,700. Teaching assistants comprise over a quarter of the workforce in mainstream schools in England: 35% of the primary workforce, and…

"Improving Mathematics in the Early Years and Key Stage 1" reviews the best available evidence to offer five recommendations for developing the maths skills of 3-7-year olds. Recommendations include integrating maths into different activities throughout the day -- for example, at registration and snack time -- to familiarise children…

This guide is designed both to explain the Drake University Teacher Aide Program to teachers cooperating with the program, and to provide the aide with practical and effective ways of providing service to the cooperating teacher. Two college courses make up this program: one for elementary education majors, and one for secondary education majors.…

Paid or volunteer assistants can help a teacher in several ways. They can give students positive reinforcement and can help them correct their work. Assistants can also perform specific tutorial tasks including directing oral reading, assisting with phonics and sight vocabulary, and helping students improve their comprehension. (TJ)

This document presents a 2-year post-high school curriculum for paraprofessional school personnel. This document is divided into five sections, which are teacher aide programs, curriculum, course outlines, bibliography, and appendix. Section one discusses some considerations of the program, occupational opportunities, aides and their work, special…

This guide is a performance-based model for preparing paraprofessionals in a teacher-aide's role. It focuses on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for a teacher-aide to support a teacher's program and facilitate pupil learning. The approach presented here suggests that the effective teacher-aide has competence in the broad areas of (1)…

The program outlined in this booklet is designed to provide a learning situation for each child which is free of peer and classroom pressure and in which the undivided attention of an adult is available during the learning activities. The main purpose of the program at the primary level is practice and mastery of skills introduced and taught by…

This study guide for teachers, designed in workbook form, is one of a 4-volume series to be used in an in-service program designed to create an awareness in teacher aides, teachers, and administrators of the potential contribution of teacher aides to career education. (The other three volumes are a coordinator's manual and the separate programs…

This teacher-addressed discussion of parent involvement programs at the elementary school level explains why and how parents can aid teachers in classroom processes, and provides guidelines for planning, implementing, and evaluating a program at the community level. It is suggested that planning for parent involvement requires a preliminary…

This resource guide for teachers and administrators gives practical suggestions on ways to recruit, train, use and keep parent and community volunteers in the schools and classrooms. Pre-planning activities (workshops, rap sessions, and inservice meetings) for administrators and school staff are discussed. Techniques for recruiting parents and…

The Senior Aide Volunteer Educator (SAVE) project in Tigard School District 23J, Tigard, Oregon, was initiated in 1971 under ESEA Title III funding to provide additional instruction to selected students from the first six grades in the areas of reading, mathematics, and elementary science. Examples from this project are often cited, but this…

The concern of Indian communities for quality education and their insistence on community control of their schools makes school staff development vital. The strategy for staff development outlined in this handbook gives a community one way to make an instant response to staff needs. Workshops place school staff in a stronger position to work with…

The Aides to Career Education (ACE) Program handbook is designed for use by administrators, teachers, and instructional aides. It provides information on the use of the aides by presenting guidelines for their most effective utilization, defining legal responsibilities of teachers and aides within the program, providing information on program…

Two plans were developed to provide in-service training to teacher aides in a large urban school district: one, an intensive program involving 30 hours of training divided into five all-day sessions or 12 shorter sessions; the other, a year-long program providing a series of 17 two-week modules from which teacher aides could choose. This paper…

Designed to help inservice teacher educators guide teachers in training and using paraprofessional assistance in the classroom, this inservice packet provides complete lesson plans for six sessions of 45 minutes to an hour. Specific objectives for this inservice plan are to involve classroom teachers with the following activities: (1) determining…