Course Details Along with all their other classroom and school duties, teaching assistants are coming under everincreasing expectations and pressure – from government, school leaders and their over-burdened teachers - to enhance their own teaching skills, both generally and specific to particular subject. Such TAs are expected to be able to work one-on-one and with small groups of pupils. Under some circumstances, TAs may even be expected to teach the entire class. But TAs are in a particularly unique position to help individual or small groups of pupils with their learning, including how to creatively think, reason and problem solve for themselves. All of this is a tall order, for which TAs need training, confidence, knowledge and experience - not only concerning the process of teaching itself, but also about particular subjects, such as science. The course will:Deliver practical, hands-on science investigations, experiments, tricks and other novel science activities, class demonstrations and ideas designed to really stimulate, engage and inspire the scientific minds of the pupils. Including applying, analysing, evaluating and creative problem solving and reasoning generally, and will get everyone thinking like real scientists!Inspire TAs to play an active role in delivering outstanding science lessons with their teacher every time, leaving their pupils on a high after each lesson.Give TAs a range of tried-and-tested science activities to take back to the class teacher that will inspire and engage the pupils about science.Show TAs how to effectively teach and illustrate science theory.Show TAs a way of presenting science enquiry that is particularly effective for stimulating the higher order creative thinking, enquiry, problem solving and reasoning process skills in pupils of a wide range of ages and abilities right across EYFS, Key Stage 1 and 2.Show a range of engaging science activities from across the curriculum, with particular focus on the often more difficult to teach physical sciences.Provide FREE site-licensed, printable digital teachers resources detailing all the activities covered on the course and lots more, not only for the TA but the rest of the school’s teaching staff as well...
Along with all their other classroom and school duties, teaching assistants are coming under everincreasing expectations and pressure – from government, school leaders and their over-burdened teachers - to enhance their own teaching skills, both generally and specific to particular subject. Such TAs are expected to be able to work one-on-one and with small groups of pupils. Under some circumstances, TAs may even be expected to teach the entire class. But TAs are in a particularly unique position to help individual or small groups of pupils with their learning, including how to creatively think, reason and problem solve for themselves. All of this is a tall order, for which TAs need training, confidence, knowledge and experience - not only concerning the process of teaching itself, but also about particular subjects, such as science. The course will:Deliver practical, hands-on science investigations, experiments, tricks and other novel science activities, class demonstrations and ideas designed to really stimulate, engage and inspire the scientific minds of the pupils. Including applying, analysing, evaluating and creative problem solving and reasoning generally, and will get everyone thinking like real scientists!Inspire TAs to play an active role in delivering outstanding science lessons with their teacher every time, leaving their pupils on a high after each lesson.Give TAs a range of tried-and-tested science activities to take back to the class teacher that will inspire and engage the pupils about science.Show TAs how to effectively teach and illustrate science theory.Show TAs a way of presenting science enquiry that is particularly effective for stimulating the higher order creative thinking, enquiry, problem solving and reasoning process skills in pupils of a wide range of ages and abilities right across EYFS, Key Stage 1 and 2.Show a range of engaging science activities from across the curriculum, with particular focus on the often more difficult to teach physical sciences.Provide FREE site-licensed, printable digital teachers resources detailing all the activities covered on the course and lots more, not only for the TA but the rest of the school’s teaching staff as well...
"Dr Mark’ (aka Dr Mark Biddiss) specialises in using simple, fun and novel ways of engaging both pupils and teachers alike about science and maths. Since 1997, ‘Dr Mark’ has visited many hundreds of schools with his novel and lively pupil shows, hands-on pupil workshops and teachers’ CPD/INSET sessions, and continues to do so.He has produced several innovative teachers’ and pupils’ science and maths resources, now used by thousands of teachers across the UK and overseas. He isrecommended by a number of teacher training colleges, and is a regular conference events all over the UK, including over ten years at the TES events. Dr Mark was even featured in a teachers’ TV programme about his work: ‘INSPIRATIONS: Magical Science & Maths’."