Teaching Assistant Induction: Your First Term
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Explain the TA role alongside the teacher’s, support learning while building independence and deliver structured interventions well.
- Assign to
- New teaching assistants
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Evidence
- 11-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Explain the TA role alongside the teacher’s.
- Support learning while building independence.
- Deliver structured interventions well.
- Follow safeguarding and professional conduct, and communicate well.
The course
- 01Your role
- 02Supporting learning
- 03Interventions
- 04Conduct and communication
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Rewrite Frankie’s note to Mr Brown”, learners rewrite a realistic document line by line and see the effect of each choice. Short animations show “How the ‘Velcro TA’ effect builds” and “Two half-terms for Alfie-Jo”.
How you know they finished
The 11-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Education Act 2002
- Equality Act 2010
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 11-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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