Behind the Scenes - The ATA Member Experience

Join us for a 'behind the scenes' tour of Australian Teacher Aide. Take a look at our range of professional development resources and learn how members can access their own CPD (Continuing Professional Development) diary to keep track of all their PD. We will also show you how schools can use the diary to guide teacher aide performance and development requirements.

As part of our 2nd birthday celebrations, we have some exciting prizes to give away!

Attend this webinar and find out how you can win the following prizes:

• A 12-month school membership with ATA
• A $500 voucher for your school to spend on resources with a supplier of choice, sponsored by Australian Teacher Aide
• A $100 voucher for one lucky member to spend on school supplies, sponsored by Teacher Superstore

For more information about ATA's 2nd Birthday Competition, visit our FAQs

Webinar - 11 October, 2022

Building Stronger Teaching Teams – Observations of Teaching Assistants in Action

The recording of this webinar is available in the Professional Development library, under School Performance and Development

Leanne Hillman, from Bolster Education, works alongside classroom educators to grow their capability in supporting access, participation, and engagement for all students.

In 2020 Leanne Hillman received a NSW Disability Strategy grant to work with a small set of Sydney schools to investigate ways to maximise the purposeful partnership of teachers and teaching assistants to increase learning outcomes for children with complex learning needs.

In this webinar Leanne, shares her observations of teaching assistants in action, and how teachers and teaching assistants are collaborating to build stronger teaching teams through lesson preparation and professional practice.

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Teamwork in the Classroom: Insights from a Secondary Teacher

15 May 2025
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Growing Entrepreneurs and Sustaining Communities with School Kitchen Gardens

21 Nov 2017
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Using Peer Observation to Plan Professional Development

23 Feb 2022
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Member Spotlight: How Como Secondary College support their TAs with ATA resources

26 May, 2025

As a Professional Learning Champion School with Australian Teacher Aide (ATA) for five consecutive years, Como Secondary College in Western Australia is a shining example of how schools can build the professional capability of their Education Assistants (EAs) through sustained and purposeful use of online learning.

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.

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Building Stronger Teaching Teams – Observations of Teaching Assistants in Action

10 Oct 2022
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Stronger Together: Resilience Through Better Communication and Relationships

11 Sep 2025
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Teacher Aides Make a Difference

30 August, 2018

Ask any parent or teacher what they think of the teacher aides at their school, and you’ll hear words such as awesome, wonderful, worth their weight in gold, angels, superheroes, legends and more….

We couldn’t agree more, and want to share with you why we think teacher aides make a difference.