Date
17 November 2024

Learn how to scaffold support

Suggestion for implementing the strategy ‘Identifying areas to build teacher aide understanding and confidence’

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Learn about the hierarchy of approaches

Learn about the hierarchy of approaches

Build teacher aide understanding of strategies to support scaffolded approaches.

Develop roving and scanning skills

Develop roving and scanning skills

Encourage teacher aides to provide the minimal amount of support needed.

Prompt for self management

Prompt for self management

Under direction from the teacher, the teacher aide can use simple strategies, such as stickies, to signal where a student should begin working.

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Source: Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga

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Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga

Useful resources

Useful resources

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Maximising The Impact of Teaching Assistants: Guidance for school leaders and teachers

This downloadable UK resource provides checkpoints to support teacher aides develop their skills scaffolding students’ learning.

Publisher: Maximising the Impact of Teaching Assistants (UK)

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