What is the role of an Early Years Teaching Assistant
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What is the role of an Early Years Teaching
Assistant?
Early years teaching assistants play a pivotal role in
supporting children during their initial years in education. While you can
expect the role to vary from school to school, you’ll still be able to make a
big difference to the pupils you help, both in and out of the classroom.
Expect to support teachers during lessons, providing
one-to-one support to youngsters when required and helping to maintain
behavioural standards to minimise any disruption. This may include assistance
for pupils with special educational needs (SEN), ensuring that they have the
best environment in which to learn.
What does an early
years teaching assistant do?
Early years teaching assistants have a unique opportunity to
help nurture each child’s natural curiosity to learn, with a degree of freedom
over this is done. This will include supporting a teacher with lesson delivery,
such as sourcing and printing worksheets, creating eye-catching wall displays
and collecting pupils’ work. All of these tasks enable the main classroom
teacher to focus on the delivery of lesson content and behaviour, helping to
cut their workloads and potential stress levels.
For young pupils, early years teaching assistants can also
play a pivotal role in identifying their strengths and weaknesses. This can
make a big difference to a pupil’s development, as it ensures that teaching is
tailored to their specific needs. In instances where pupils are shy, nervous or
unsure of their surroundings, staff can also help them to feel safer in the
school environment. Early years teaching assistants can also help those with
low self-esteem or with behavioural issues, as these youngsters can often
benefit from additional attention.
What other skills
might be required in the role?
Depending on your experience as an early years teaching
assistant, you may also play a role in helping teachers to create lesson plans.
Here, your knowledge of individual pupils and their specific needs will enable
you to shape lessons that best support their learning requirements. Good
communication skills are a necessity in the role, as you’ll need to speak with
other school staff, pupils and sometimes their parents on a regular basis,
providing information in a way that all can understand. Ultimately, you’ll be
helping each child you support to develop a set of essential skills that
they’ll use throughout their lives.
If the thought of being an early years teaching assistant is
appealing, get in touch with us today to discover how we can help with your
career progression.
How Tradewind can support Early Year Teaching Assistants
in their job search
We have hundreds of teaching assistant roles available, find
your perfect job here.
We have lots of resources online to help support your TA job
search, from writing the perfect CV to our top interview tips. If you have any
worries about starting a new Teaching Assistant role, we have collated our top
10 tips for new TA’s.
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