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Want to be a Teaching Assistant? Register on our course now.

Do you want to work with some of the most enquiring minds around? Are you ready for the challenge of being a teaching assistant? Then read on… There has never been a better time to become a teaching assistant. If you have decided this the career for you, you have made an excellent choice. There’s a big demand for teaching assistants. But don’t just take our word for it.

You can even go on to train as a teacher, with specialist courses designed exactly for teaching assistants.
New pay and conditions have been negotiated for Teaching Assistants. This is to encourage more people to take up the unique challenge offered by the role.

As a teaching assistant you’ll be working in a profession where your skills, dedication and knowledge will be recognised. A profession where you’ll be truly valued. A profession where you know that you really are making a difference each and every day through your job.

You too can join this ever-expanding army of support staff dedicated to improving the educational experience of each and every child. Register for our Teaching Assistant’s Diploma and you could not ask for a better introductory training package to get you to where you want to be.

Is becoming a teaching assistant right for me?

If you’re looking at this web page, the chances are you are already considering a career as a teaching assistant.

But before you make any final decisions, it’s time to ask yourself some tough questions. We don’t want you to register on our course unless you’re really sure it is the right choice for you. Otherwise you’ll just be wasting a lot of your time, effort and money.

So ask yourself:

• Do I like working with children?
• Do I want to work in an environment where every day is different?
• Do I have a lot of patience and understanding?
• Do I really want to help pupils get the best possible education they can? #
• Am I a good team player?
• If you can answer Yes to all these questions, well done. You’ll make a great teaching assistant.
• If you’ve answered no to any, perhaps it’s time for a little self-reflection. Would you be willing to change things about yourself in order to get the job you want? If not, it may be worthwhile reconsidering things. You might need to consider a different job.

You can make a difference

Firstly the good news – there are no formal qualifications needed to become a teaching assistant. As long as you can show you are reasonably competent in maths and English – O-Levels or GCSEs for example – you can become a teaching assistant.

Secondly the bad news – there are no formal qualifications needed to become a teaching assistant. Why is this bad news? Well it means there are lots of people who could become teaching assistants.

So if you’re serious about entering a classroom, you need to give yourself an edge. You need to prove to this school that you’re serious about wanting to take up the challenges ahead. You need to show that you’re looking for a career as a teaching assistant, not just any old job to fill up your time. You need to provide them with real evidence of your commitment to your new chosen career.

And what better way to do that than with a real qualification? A qualification which demonstrates not only your determination to succeed, but also how equipped you are to make a real difference to the education of pupils in their school.

By studying for our Teaching Assistants’ Diploma, you’ll give yourself that edge. You couldn’t ask for anything more from a distance learning course.

The course

So you’ve decided to become a teaching assistant. And you know that by studying a course, you’ll have a massive advantage when it comes to that first interview. But which course do you choose? This can be a really difficult decision but it’s a crucial one. So don’t rush it.

Here are a few helpful pointers to bear in mind. Think about the course’s content, quality, the support you get and, of course, the cost.

Here at the Institute we’re confident our Teaching Assistant’s Diploma wins on all four counts.

Why?

Well, let us explain.

Content

Some courses are so full of theory it’s easy to lose your way. Let’s face it, the world of education is full of words that can mean very little to someone not involved in schools. National Curriculum… Key Stages… Attainment Levels. If you don’t really know what these mean, how can you understand what the course is trying to teach you?

That’s why our course goes right back to basics, taking you slowly and carefully through each step. It gives you the building blocks of knowledge to help you get to grips with all the issues in education. And that’s exactly what you need to do as a teaching assistant.

Some courses assume – or need – you to already have experience in the classroom. Well you may have, but it’s far more likely that you don’t. After all, if you had experience, why would you need to do a course in the first place?

We make no assumptions. Our course is ideal for those people who want to take their first steps on the career ladder of being a teaching assistant. And you don’t have to have even looked inside a classroom to register for our course.

Of course, when the time is right for you to look for your first teaching assistant position, we thoroughly recommend you get some real classroom experience. But don’t worry, as in our course you’ll find out how to do that as well.

What the course teaches you
So what will you learn on our Teaching Assistants’ Diploma? Simple, everything you need to know to forge a new career as a Teaching Assistant.

In our nine-module course you’ll discover all about:

• The classroom – find out how teachers teach, how pupils learn, and what you can do to support them both.
• Literacy, numeracy and ICT – find out what they are and how you can play a vital role in helping children meet government targets in these subjects.
• Resources - learn all about how these help children learn in the classroom and how important they will be to any new teaching assistant.
• Pastoral care – discover why as a teaching assistant you can play a vital role in ensuring the welfare and happiness of the pupils you see every day.

But that’s not all. Unlike other courses, our course puts the job of teaching assistant in perspective. You’ll find out all about how the education system in the UK works from the very top, to the very bottom.

After all, what’s the use of knowing all about literacy if you don’t know the difference between a community school and a foundation school? There’s nothing worse than being shown up by a lack of knowledge at an interview. By studying our course, that will not happen.

We also have a module that focuses solely on what happens in schools. Schools are extremely dynamic and complicated organisations. They have a catalogue of policies and procedures designed to make them run smoothly. Do you know what these are? Well you will after studying this module.

You see, that’s what makes our course so different from the others. We have fine-tuned it to make it the most relevant, information-packed training package that we can.

Our Teaching Assistant’s Diploma not only helps you prepare for – and get a job – as a teaching assistant, it also gives you help and lots of great ideas beyond, courtesy of the course manual.

The manual is packed with vital information to help you develop and grow in your new career. There is plenty of advice about further training, about how you could specialise and the options available. There are also great links to websites where you’ll be able to browse through hundreds of resource materials when you need to help prepare a lesson.

The course manual is truly an invaluable addition to the equipment of any teaching assistant.

Quality matters

When it comes to distance learning, it’s not the fancy brochures that count. Neither is it the amount of courses an organisation offers. After all, you’re only considering one course! And think about it, if there really are that many students, how can you be sure you’ll get the individual attention you need and deserve during your studies?

When we develop our courses, we don’t just buy them ‘off the shelf’. It’s not much use to us – or you – if our course were created for people who want to become teaching assistants in America. That’s why our course concentrates solely on the UK.

Neither do we simply offer someone else’s courses. We are dedicated to providing the very best in distance learning. We pride ourselves on ensuring that our courses are the courses our students deserve. That’s why we develop our own – from start to finish.

You see it’s very different here at the Institute. Here we personally research, design and commission each individual course. That way we can ensure that not only are they individually tailored to meet the needs of our students, but that they give our students exactly the knowledge they need to secure the career they want.

Take our Teaching Assistant’s Diploma, for example. It has been specially created not by a team of anonymous writers who can turn their hand to writing about anything you ask, but by real educational professionals. All contributors come from an educational background and they are all uniquely qualified to pass on their expert knowledge to you.

Qualified teachers, teaching assistants and teaching assistant trainers, created the modules on our course. We go straight to the experts because they know their stuff and after you have completed the course, you’ll know it too.

What kind of people do the course?

Our students come from a wide variety of backgrounds which is not surprising when you consider that education is such an important issue in contemporary life. With newspaper headlines continually screaming about the “crisis” in our schools, it’s no wonder some people are inspired to get up and do something about it.

Among our students are:

• Mothers who have become interested in education because of their children
• People who are looking for a career with good prospects but who may not higher level qualifications
• People with a genuine interest in education who want to play a part in ensuring all children get the best out of school they can
• Whatever you situation, our course is right for you. Whether you want to become a teaching assistant as your first job, as a career change or as a way of becoming a fully-trained teacher, our course will set you on the right path.

Your qualification

When you have completed your Teaching Assistant’s Diploma you’ll be awarded the Teaching Assistant’s Diploma – a real qualification which will show your knowledge and commitment when it comes to becoming a teaching assistant.

Employers will realise the seriousness of your intentions when they see how thoroughly you have studied and prepared for your new role.

We look forward to helping you succeed.

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