Working with Support in the Classroom

Anne is Professor of Professional Learning at Leeds Metropolitan University.

• Introduction - Anne Campbell and Gavin FairbairnValuing Diversity: The Role of Support Workers in the Early Years - Wendy BignoldMaking the Most of the Teaching Assistant for Special Educational Needs - Wendy HallLearning Mentors in Primary Classrooms and Schools - Pat HughesPartners in Mathematical Learning - Sue Cronin and Christine BoldWorking with Support to Enhance the Use of ICT - Sue Crowley and Mike RichardsonThe Teacher and the Nursery Nurse: Building the Partnership - Ann-Marie JonesMaking the Most of an Extra Pair of Hands: Teachers and Student Teachers in the Classroom - Deborah Smith and Deirdre HewittAll Different, All Equal: A Case Study of Support at Temple Primary School - Anne CampbellPeering into the Future: Two Conversations with Headteachers - Anne CampbellDeveloping Successful Practice with Support Staff - Anne Campbell

′Through working with teaching assistants on courses I know that the balancing of relationships is a central concern.This book will provide a valuable opportunity to extend this experience during Initial Teacher Training. Readers at all levels of experience will be able to reflect on how to develop creative and constructive paths leading to a partnership of professionals, and to make teams work in a way that really benefits the learning of children in their care.′ - Min Wilkie, School of Education, University of Leicester′The publication of this book is most timely. As the plans for the remodelling of the school workforce begin to take shape, further complexities surrounding the area continue to be exposed. This book addresses many of these and does so in an accessible and thought provoking way. Simplistic answers to how best we can work with support in the classroom are not provided, but different ways of approaching the question are. By reading about, and engaging with, fictionalised accounts, case studies, stories and vignettes, the reader is transported across the whole range of educational settings, exploring the myriad definitions of classroom "support"′ - Dr Iris Keating, Manchester Metropolitan University