Voices from the Classroom

Teaching assistants,as 'para-professionals', make up a significant percentage of the total school workforce. This research gave voice to teaching assistants, exploring their perceptions and experiences, in terms of their backgrounds, roles and responsibilities, training, support from their schools whilst training, their aspirations and the progression routes available to them. A small-scale phenomenological study approach was adopted, aimed to interpret and explain human actions and thought through descriptions, capturing first person accounts.

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Dr. Jodi Roffey-Barentsen is an educationalist with extensive experience in teacher training. As Director of Studies she is responsible for courses for teaching assistants, Certificate in Education, Foundation and Batchelor of Arts Degrees. Her research include includes: perceptions of teaching assistants, transition into HE, Reflective Practice.

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Teaching assistants,as 'para-professionals', make up a significant percentage of the total school workforce. This research gave voice to teaching assistants, exploring their perceptions and experiences, in terms of their backgrounds, roles and responsibilities, training, support from their schools whilst training, their aspirations and the progression routes available to them. A small-scale phenomenological study approach was adopted, aimed to interpret and explain human actions and thought through descriptions, capturing first person accounts.