Specialist teaching assistant (level 5)
Specialist teaching assistants support provision related to special educational needs and disability (SEND), the social and emotional well-being, of learners, or within another area of specialist curriculum provision such as forest schools, EAL, subject-based interventions or music education.
- Qualification level
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5
Equivalent to higher national diploma (HND). - Typical duration
- 24 months
- Apprenticeship category
- Education and early years
- Maximum funding
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£12,000
Maximum amount government will fund
for apprenticeship training. - Also known as
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- Academic mentor
- Drama teaching assistant
- Higher level teaching assistant
- Learning mentor
- Music educator
- Pe teaching assistant
- Send teaching assistant
- Social and emotional well-being teaching assistant
- Specialist education support
- Specialist learning assistant
- Specialist learning support
- Specialist teaching assistant
- Subject teaching assistant
- Skills
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Skills an apprentice will learn
- Act in line with policies, processes, and procedures related to statutory frameworks and non-statutory guidance, including safeguarding, implementing the setting’s behaviour policy.
- Establish a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment for learners.
- Establish nurturing, effective working relationships with learners, parents or carers and stakeholders.
- Demonstrate understanding of equality and diversity and sustainable development.
- Undertake dynamic risk assessment of the learning environment.
- Respond to and mitigate potential hazards that may adversely affect a learning environment.
- Contribute to the planning of learning and assessment activities.
- Apply teaching strategies to advance learning, for example scaffolding.
- Select and use safely, appropriate equipment and resources to advance learning.
- Apply an appropriate range of assessment methods, including formative, summative and individual needs-based assessments.
- Analyse assessment outcomes to inform reporting and future planning.
- Provide ongoing feedback to learners and support them to respond to feedback.
- Record and report information related to learners’ progress to a range of stakeholders.
- Collaborate with colleagues and other professionals.
- Advocate for and champion the needs of learners.
- Use a range of research to critically evaluate teaching and assessment approaches and practices.
- Critically evaluate a variety of teaching and assessment methods depending on the learning environments and learners’ needs.
- Improve own practice by undertaking continuous self-reflection including seeking and responding to feedback from varied sources.
- Update and maintain their own knowledge and skills as part of managing their own continuing professional development.
- Communicate information and analysis in a variety of forms to reflect the needs of the audience, for example by providing appropriate advice and guidance to parents or carers.
- Support the development of effective practices in others, for example through mentoring and coaching colleagues.
- Identify, action, and challenge issues and undertake difficult conversations where appropriate.
- Recognise signs of vulnerability in self or colleagues and the appropriate actions required to minimise risks to professional well-being.
- Implement strategies to support the social and emotional well-being of learners.
- Select and use technologies safely and effectively to promote learning.
- Prioritise and manage own workload, for example recognising the importance of capacity.
Full information on Specialist teaching assistant (level 5) is available from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.
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