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Teaching Assistant Strategies

Below is a checklist of questions that will be used to help you identify relevant strategies you can use to address the issue(s) you have identified.

Read each question and check either the Yes box or the No box for each question.
After answering all questions, click the Suggest strategies button at the bottom. All questions need to be answered in order to have strategies suggested.
Your answers will be used to show you relevant categories of strategies, both foundation and more intensive strategies.

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Questions

Yes No Does my teaching assistant spend much of their time supervising or keeping an individual student on task?
Yes No Do students fail to complete work without the constant supervision of the teaching assistant?
Yes No Does the teaching assistant frequently need to provide answers for the student?
Yes No Is there no plan to withdraw teaching assistant support and teach the student to work independently?
Yes No Does the teaching assistant frequently go into a lesson without briefing from the teacher on exactly what is required in that lesson?
Yes No Does the teaching assistant take more responsibility for teaching the student than the teacher?
Yes No Does the teaching assistant frequently make unplanned adjustments without specific direction from the teacher?
Yes No Does the teaching assistant deliver content that has not been designed by the teacher?
Yes No Does the teacher have a clear goal for what they want the teaching assistant to achieve beyond supervising the student?
Yes No Does the teaching assistant collect and share data about student learning or behaviour?
Yes No Does the teaching assistant spend more time teaching the student with special needs than the teacher?
Yes No Does the teaching assistant work exclusively or almost exclusively with one student?
Yes No Is the teaching assistant primarily responsible for managing behaviour of the student?
Yes No Does the teaching assistant rarely support small group and whole class teaching?
Yes No Does the teaching assistant rarely deliver a structured program?
Yes No Is the teaching assistant the main support provided to the student?
Yes No Do I use my teaching assistant to regularly collect data about student learning or behaviour?
Yes No Do I use my teaching assistant to make materials and resources for individual students?
Yes No When you don't have access to teaching assistant support, do you struggle making adjustments for students in your class?
Yes No Do you seem to have insufficient teaching assistant time?
Yes No Have you considered alternative strategies before deciding you need to use a teaching assistant?
Yes No Do you have too many different teaching assistants working in your class?
Yes No Do you know when you will have a teaching assistant?
Yes No Does the school allocate teaching assistants in a manner that provides consistency for staff and students?

Please answer all questions to continue.