Level 5 Specialist Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship

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Level 5 Specialist Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship

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Level 5 Specialist Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship

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Level 5 Specialist Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship

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Course Introduction

Specialist teaching assistants support provision related to special educational needs and disability (SEND), the social and emotional wellbeing, of learners, or within another area of specialist curriculum provision such as forest schools, EAL, subject-based interventions or music education.

Course Content

This standard consists of a range of knowledge and skills linked to the Level 5 Specialist Teaching Assistant, which progress towards the externally assessed End-point Assessment.

This will include, but is not limited to:

Curriculum frameworks
Health, safety and well-being, including safeguarding
Policies, process and procedures relating to collecting, storing and sharing information
Principles of sustainability within education, behaviours for learning, effective teamwork, effective coaching and mentoring, reflective practice
Theories of learning and typical patterns of child development
Sources of information on research-informed evidence-based practice
Differences between curriculum, assessment and pedagogy
Rationale, methods and approaches to planning
Teaching strategies to advance learning
Barriers to learning and strategies to overcome them
Principles and different methods of assessment and observation
Methods of recording and reporting on assessments
National and local SEND polices, practices, processes and procedures
Theoretical background to a range of SEND, principles for early identification, tools for assessment, and the impact of SEND on children and young people's learning and development.