Teaching Assistant and Midday Meals Supervisor

Qualifications

The Teaching Assistant should have:

• good basic education to GCSE level inliteracy and numeracy, or the equivalent

In addition, the Teaching Assistant might have experience of:

• A relevant qualification inChildcare and/or Education

Experience

The Teaching Assistant should have:

• Experience with young children, perhapsas a parent or voluntary worker (e.g. as a Brownie or Cub leader)

In addition, the Teaching Assistant might have experience:

• of being a paid worker in play schemes,crèches, midday supervision, after-school clubs or similar

Knowledge and Understanding

The Teaching Assistant should have knowledge and understanding of:

• the needs of young children;
• child development and the ways in whichchildren learn;
• the roles played by various adults in achild’s education;
• behaviour management strategies;

• equal opportunities
• safeguarding

Skills

The Teaching Assistant will be able to:

• help professional staff to achievetheir objectives;
• assist children on an individual basis, in small group and whole class work;
• explain tasks simply and clearly andfoster independence;
• supervise children, and adhere to defined

behaviour managementpolicies;

• accept and respond to authority andsupervision;
• work with guidance, but under limitedsupervision;
• liaise and communicate effectively withothers;
• demonstrate good organisational skills;
• reflect on and develop professionalpractice;
• display work effectively, and make andmaintain basic teaching resources.

• monitor, record and make basicassessments about individual progress
• suggest alternative ways of helpingchildren if they are unable to understand;
• describe, in simple terms, the processof behaviour management with children;
• identify gaps in their own experiencethat they need help in filling;
• demonstrate the ability to learn andadapt from past experience.