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04 October 2025
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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.
  • self-scaffolding
  • prompting
  • clueing
  • modelling
  • correcting

Source: Adapted from The teaching assistant's guide to effective interaction: How to maximise your practice (opens in a new tab/window)

Develop roving and scanning skills

Develop roving and scanning skills

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

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Source: Ministry of Education videos, teacher aide effective practice (NZ) (opens in a new tab/window)

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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

Source:
Ministry of Education | Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga

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