Managing Teaching Assistants

This book provides comprehensive, informed practical support to those managing and teaching assistants.

Dr Anne Watkinson is an ex-headteacher and LEA senior adviser who now works as an independent consultant on Teaching Assistant matters. She has also worked for both the DfEE and DfES

1. Introduction 2. What Teaching Assistants can do 3. The local circumstances - auditing the existing situation in a school 4. Maximising the potential of Teaching Assistants 5. Management systems and structures relating to Teaching Assistants 6. Employing Teaching Assistants: From recruitment to review 7. Teaching Assistants and teaching: Teachers as managers 8. Teaching Assistants' personal and professional development 9. Looking ahead