Download guidance and supporting resources co-written with the Education Endowment Foundation
The report and the recommendations
1. A printable version of the Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants guidance report
2. A poster summarising the seven recommendations in the guidance report (pictured above)
3. A poster summarising ten reasons to improve the use of TAs
Resources to help schools act on the evidence
4. The 'acting on the evidence’ process - Key principles to support successful implementation of the recommendations
5. Red, Amber, Green self-assessment tool - Assess current practice and monitor progress against the report's recommendations
6. TA observation schedule - Collect data to aid your understanding of how TAs are deployed in classrooms
7. Visioning exercise - Define what great TA deployment and practice will look like in your school
8. Action planning template - Develop action plan points to realise your vision
9. TA policy template - Create a policy articulating a shared understanding of TA deployment, use and training in your school
Resources relating to the recommendations in the guidance report
Recommendations I and II – Deploying TAs in classrooms
10. Teacher-TA agreement template - Specify co-ordinated, but differentiated, roles during lessons
Recommendation III – TAs' interactions with pupils
11. Scaffolding framework - Help TAs scaffold pupils’ learning and encourage independent learning
Recommendations V, VI and VII – TAs delivering targeted, structured interventions
12. Conducting an interventions 'health check' - Review interventions and how they are delivered
13. Evidence-based TA-led literacy and numeracy interventions - Programmes proven to show impact on attainment