Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship - Complete Skills Solutions

Working your way towards to your Level 3

At the heart of effective education is a well-trained team who are committed to supporting young people to achieve their potential. Teaching Assistants play a vital role in that.

Our Teaching Assistant apprenticeships cover all of the essentials, such as understanding how pupils learn and develop, how to keep children safe in education, development of strategies for support, and much more.

This apprenticeship is ideal for colleagues who are working in roles such as a Teaching Assistant or Learning Mentor. It offers a rounded programme of study that covers the theory behind how pupils learn and development, strategies for helping to engage with and support young people to achieve their potential along with safeguarding statutory guidance around Keeping Children Safe in Education.

What will I learn?

Knowledge

The importance of providing feedback.
The learning resources available to support learners and how to use them.
The stages of development for children and young people.
The principles of target setting to support the next steps in learning.
The impact of transition on learners and strategies to support them.
How technology can support learning.
The learning, assessment, and feedback cycle.
Methods of formative assessment.
Methods of observing, recording, and reporting.
The curriculum intent, how it is implemented, and the intended impact.
Prevent, safeguarding and health & safety legislation, guidance, and procedures.
Teaching strategies to deliver learning activities and interventions (for example, scaffolding, open questioning).
How to adapt communication strategies to suit the audience and context.
Types of learning intervention.
How to support learner’s well-being, mental health and pastoral needs, including referral to other professionals or services.
The pastoral and academic behaviours learners will display.
The impact of enrichment activities on learners.

Skills

Apply strategies to support and encourage the development of independent learners.
Adapt communication strategies for the audience and context.
Apply behaviour management strategies in line with organisational policy.
Adapt resources to support all learners.
Communicate with teachers to ensure clarity of the TA’s role.
Apply teaching strategies to deliver learning activities or interventions.
Build relationships with learners, teachers, other professionals and stakeholders.
Comply with legislation, guidance, and procedures for Prevent, safeguarding and health & safety.
Support the well-being and mental health of learners.
Observe, record, and report on learners in line with organisational procedures.
Apply methods of formative assessment.
Use up to date technology safely, to support learning.
Encourage safe use of technology by learners.
Adapt teaching strategies to support all learners (for example, scaffolding, open questioning).
Identify and respond to pastoral and academic behaviours in learners.
Provide feedback to learners.

Behaviours

Act professionally and respectfully with the whole school community.
Be a positive role model, upholding and exemplifying the organisation’s values.
Respect and promote equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Be committed to improving their own delivery through reflective practice.
Engage with research to establish best practice.
Work collaboratively and constructively with the whole school community.

As well as working towards your Level 3 Teaching Assistant qualification, this course will also cover:

Digital Skills
Numeracy
English
Problem-Solving
Team Work
Initiative
Communication
Organisation
Creativity

This apprenticeship will also cover topics like:

Digital Skills
Numeracy
English
Problem-Solving
Team Work
Initiative
Communication
Organisation
Creativity

What is the end outcome?

You will work towards becoming a Teaching Assistant and, by completing this advanced apprenticeship, you’ll earn a Level 3 qualification, which is equivalent to two A-Levels.

Am I guaranteed a job at the end?

You’ll be working towards your Level 3 qualification as a Teaching Assistant.

If you’re currently employed, your business can use their Apprenticeship Levy to support you in doing this apprenticeship for free! Or, if they don’t have access to the Levy pot, your employer simply has to pay for 5% of the costs (which works out as £350) and the Government funds the remaining 95%.

Or, we can pair you with employers who are looking to hire an apprentice. So let us know if you’re interested! At the end of your apprenticeship, the employer you worked under may decide to promote you and hire you full time.

Are you eligible?

Learners must hold a Level 1 or above in both English and Maths. (If you don’t hold a Level 2 in these subjects, you will need to achieve this before your end-point assessment, which is around 13 months into the apprenticeship.)

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