Teaching Assistant Apprenticeship Standard Level 3

You will be employed as an appren­tice for at least 30 hours a week. You will have a work­place men­tor or super­vi­sor who will be respon­si­ble for your train­ing and wel­fare at work. You will attend col­lege for month­ly workshops.

A min­i­mum of 3 GCSEs at grades 4/C or above prefer­ably includ­ing Eng­lish, math­e­mat­ics and a sci­ence, or rel­e­vant / appro­pri­ate expe­ri­ence. Indi­vid­ual employ­ers will also set their own selec­tion cri­te­ria and will include a recog­nised back­ground check, equiv­a­lent to a Dis­clo­sure and Bar­ring Ser­vice (DBS).

An asses­sor will vis­it you in the work­place to assess your progress against stan­dards and set SMART objectives.

As well as ensur­ing full com­pe­ten­cy as a Teach­ing Assis­tant, this stan­dard pro­vides a foun­da­tion for poten­tial pro­gres­sion into a num­ber of careers paths in the Edu­ca­tion­al sec­tor includ­ing High­er Lev­el Teach­ing Assis­tant, Assis­tant Teacher and Teacher.

Knowl­egde:

• Under­stand­ing how pupils learn and develop.
• Work­ing with teach­ers to under­stand and sup­port assess­ment for learning.
• Keep­ing chil­dren safe in education.

Skills:

• Devel­op­ing strate­gies for support.
• Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and team work.
• Work­ing with teach­ers to accu­rate­ly assess.
• Using tech­nol­o­gy.
• Prob­lem solving/​ability to moti­vate pupils.

Behav­iours:

• Build­ing relationships/​embrac­ing change.
• Adding val­ue to education.
• Pro­mot­ing equal­i­ty, diver­si­ty and inclusion.
• Pro­fes­sion­al stan­dards and per­son­al accountability.
• Team work­ing and col­lab­o­ra­tion engagement.