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Alexandra Park School ‘Success For All’. Inclusion Team Good Practice. Current practice 2012-13. SENCO plus 3 SEN teachers 33 TAs 8 Lead Teaching Assistants TAs are linked to students and support in all subjects Fortnightly training sessions Performance management
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Alexandra Park School‘Success For All’ Inclusion Team Good Practice
Current practice 2012-13 • SENCO plus 3 SEN teachers • 33 TAs • 8 Lead Teaching Assistants • TAs are linked to students and support in all subjects • Fortnightly training sessions • Performance management • TA standards for new TAs • Mentoring for new staff
Initial Teaching Assistant Quality Standards at Alexandra Park School • Use effective strategies to promote positive behaviour. • Monitor key student’s progress in order to provide focussed support and feedback. • Contribute to the selection and preparation of resources suitable for SEN student’s interests and abilities with a qualified teacher. • Use their area(s) of expertise to contribute to the planning and preparation of learning activities in collaboration with a qualified teacher • Demonstrate the positive values, attitudes and behaviour they expect from children, young people and colleagues • Communicate effectively and sensitively with children, young people, colleagues, parents and carers. Demonstrate how to listen to people, make them feel valued and involved. • Demonstrate a commitment to collaborative and cooperative working with colleagues, including the Inclusion team and other curriculum areas • Clarify the objectives, content and intended outcomes for the learning activities in which they are involved • Establish a purposeful and safe learning environment which complies with current legal requirements, national policies and guidance on the safeguarding and well-being of children and young people so that learners feel secure and sufficiently confident to make an active contribution to learning and to the school • Support small groups of students effectively.
Department improvements 2013-14 • TAs will be placed in departments • Training members of the team to become experts in areas such as Occupational Therapy. • Intervention groups- literacy, speech and language, social skills, handwriting, behaviour. • Provision mapping at Annual Review with parent to address the child’s need. • Child centred IEPs • Referral system for staff with SEN concerns.