Education Studies for Teaching Assistants

Taught at New City College, this course is normally delivered at their Ardleigh Green campus.

The CertHE in Education Studies for Teaching Assistants is a one-year course for experienced teaching assistants wishing to study at a higher educational level. This course is for teaching assistants or learning and inclusion support assistants in all areas of teaching: early years, primary schools, secondary schools, special schools, and post-16 teaching.

The course covers aspects of the work of the teaching assistant, including:

- the ways children develop and learn

- appropriate and inclusive teaching methods supporting learners with additional needs

- social and emotional issues and contexts in learning

- policy and legislation.

The course has a strong vocational element; you'll relate your own understandings of theory directly to your practice. Skilled and experienced teaching assistants need a specific route into higher education designed to reflect their diverse roles and responsibilities and the changing role and status of the school/college based teaching assistant; this course has been designed to meet those needs. On successful completion of this year-long course, you can progress to the final year of the Foundation degree in Education Studies for Teaching Assistants if you choose.

This course is delivered by New City College in collaboration with Bath Spa University
This course is taught at New City College, and normally delivered at their Ardleigh Green campus. Visit their website for the latest information.