3 Choose an activity
Choose one or two activities to do in pairs or small groups. Follow the links for each activity’s instructions, worksheets and resources. Activity sheets are in Google Docs format. You can download them in Word, print them or save them to your own Google Drive for working online.
1 What is happening in the classroom?
In this activity, you will consider a range of lesson scenarios and find a good match between what the teacher is doing and what the teacher aide could be doing to support student learning. Then discuss how these scenarios and roles compare with your experience as a teacher or teacher aide.
2 Teacher modelling to support teacher aide learning
In this activity, you will watch a video of a teacher modelling a strategy that the teacher aide will use with a student. You will discuss the techniques in the video and share your own experiences of teacher modelling to support teacher aide learning.
3 Roving, scanning, listening in and supporting attention
In this activity, you will watch a video of a classroom where the teacher and teacher aides work together to support the learning for all the students in the class. You will discuss the techniques in the video and the impact they have on student learning, and consider how to use these practices in your own work.
4 Sharing lesson plans and teaching strategies with teacher aides
In this activity, you will watch a video about teacher and teacher aide collaboration. As you watch, note the opportunities the teacher has to share their planning with the teacher aides and to model effective teaching strategies to them. You will discuss how this compares with your experience.
5 Adding value to the whole class environment
In this activity, you will read comments from teacher aides about their preferred role in the classroom and consider how their practice might inhibit or develop student learning. You will discuss how these scenarios compare with your experience of working with teachers or teacher aides.
6 Planning for scanning, roving, listening in and supporting attention
In this activity, you will revisit two lesson scenarios from Activity 1 and read the information the teacher gave the teacher aide in a brief discussion before the lesson. You will work together to share this kind of information for an upcoming lesson.