Australian Teacher Aide 10th Birthday Celebration Competition

We’ve hidden the words to a secret sentence across our website, and we need you to piece it together!

Each page holds two key words. Collect them all, and you’ll discover a message that reflects Australian Teacher Aide’s mission.

Once you've found all the words, put them together in the order you find them, to make a sentence, and enter it into this form below for your chance to WIN!

Hint: The words are easy to spot—just find the sentence and fill in the gaps!

Participant Information

Full Name: *

Email Address: *

Position Title: *

School Name: *

School Contact Number: *

Step 1: Go to the Membership tab and click on School Membership. Find the first two missing words:

School Membership enables schools to provide customised professional learning to education ____________ staff to build their capacity to effectively support student ____________ and wellbeing.: *

Step 2: Head over to the Professional Development tab and click on PD planner and PL record. Look for the second pair of words:

The Professional Learning __________ can be used in conjunction with the PD Planner to record professional learning activities, such as PD, conversations and observations, that align with the professional growth __________ of teaching assistants.: *

Step 3: Visit the Resource Centre and our new Tools and Templates. You’ll find more important words in the blurb for the new member checklist:

This checklist is for new ________ existing school members, to help __________ staff to engage with the Australian Teacher Aide professional learning. Download the checklist and display it prominently where teacher aides (and others) will see it!: *

Step 4: Open the Standards tab to the Australian Teaching Assistant Professional Standards (ATAPS). The last two words are waiting for you.

The Australian Teaching Assistant Professional Standards (ATAPS) is an evidence-based framework that supports the performance and __________ __________ of teaching assistants in all Australian schools.: *

Step 5: Using the words you’ve found above, fill in the 8 spaces below to reveal the secret sentence: _________ _________, _________ __________ _________ __________ __________ __________ !: *

For a bonus entry – Watch the preview of our popular video What Students Need to Hear From Teaching Assistants and tell us the 5 steps of the scaffolding framework. List the steps below:

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