1st Edition
Behaviour Management and the Role of the Teaching Assistant A Guide for Schools
Introduction
Part One
- Who are TAs and What Do they Do?
- Behaviour in Primary Schools
- Perspectives on Behaviour
- Approaches to Managing Behaviour
- How and why the TA role is changing and what this might mean for schools today
- TAs Supporting Children’s Behaviour – Advantages and Limitations
- TAs, Teachers and School Behaviour Policies
Part One Conclusion
Part Two
8. Clearly Defined TA role and its Impact on Managing Behaviour
9. Others’ Views of the TA Role and their Impact on TAs
Part Two Conclusion
Part Three
10. Training and the TA
11. Power and the TA
12. Whole-School Approaches and the TA
13. Deployment and the TA
Part Three Conclusion
Part Four
14. Empowering TAs to Work with children
Part Four Conclusion
Biography
Emma Clarke leads on a primary PGCE course after teaching in mainstream schools for almost eighteen years. Her interests include approaches to managing behaviour, challenging behaviour in primary schools and TAs’ role in supporting children in this regard. She has presented her research both nationally and internationally, as well as publishing in books and peer-reviewed journals.
