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A Collaborative Framework for Student Success

17 April 2018

Collaboration is about how school leaders, teachers and teacher aides work together to ensure that our students have the best chance of becoming successful learners. A whole school collaborative approach enables both teachers and teacher aides to use evidence based practices to effectively support student learning. Whereas schools have the tools and resources to measure the impact of teacher effectiveness on student outcomes, evidence based data on effective teacher aide practices is relatively new.

Inclusive Practices In Schools - Who Is Responsible?

24 April 2017

Are teacher education programs addressing the changing role of teacher aides to ensure that our future teachers have the skills to work effectively with education support staff in an inclusive learning environment?

Apps and Books to Support Adolescent Readers

20 March 2017

For many older children and adolescents who struggle with reading, making sense of the words on a page is not an automatic process, and can be painstakingly slow and laboured, resulting in the reader getting little meaning and certainly no satisfaction from what they read.

TA Led Interventions Improve Student Literacy and Numeracy Results

19 February 2017

Recently, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) trialled seven TA led literacy and numeracy intervention programs, with a 100% success rate. Rob Webster, from the UCL Institute of Education, whose research has focused on the impact of teaching assistants, said that 'a 100% success rate, over seven trials, is almost unheard of, and there is something unignorable about the impact of teacher aides.'

Teacher Aide Workforce in Australian Schools Grows by a Staggering 33.9%

20 January 2017

There are more than 87,600 TAs employed in Australian schools. According to the 2015 Labour Force Survey by the Department of Employment, this trend will continue with over 105,000 TAs employed in Australian schools by 2020.

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