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Teaching assistants are one of a school’s biggest resources, but too often they’re deployed without training or a clear role. Used well, TAs make a real difference, especially for pupils with SEND. This training helps your teaching assistants work with maximum impact, and helps leaders deploy them well.
Below, we explain what our teaching assistant development training involves, and how it helps your TAs make a real difference.
What Is Teaching Assistant Development Training?
It’s practical training that helps teaching assistants support learning effectively and helps schools deploy them well. We cover how to support without creating dependence, how to help pupils with SEND, and the questioning and scaffolding skills that make TAs effective.
We draw on the EEF’s guidance on making best use of teaching assistants, and focus on the everyday skills that turn good intentions into real impact.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It works for teaching assistants, HLTAs, SEND support staff, and the leaders who deploy them. Trusts often run it across schools to raise the impact of support staff.
Many schools ask for it to develop their TAs, improve SEND support, or make better use of their support staff budget.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- The teaching assistant’s role and impact
- Supporting without creating dependence
- Effective questioning and scaffolding
- Supporting pupils with SEND well
- Delivering interventions effectively
- Working in partnership with teachers
- Building pupils’ independence
- Deploying TAs for maximum impact
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
1
Raise the impact of your TAs
Well-trained TAs make a real difference. Your support staff work with far greater impact.
2
Support pupils with SEND better
TAs learn to help pupils with SEND access learning, not just sit alongside them.
3
Build independence, not dependence
We show TAs how to support pupils to do more themselves, which is what really helps them progress.
4
Make better use of your budget
TAs are a major cost. Training makes sure that investment delivers real impact for pupils.
5
Improve teacher-TA partnership
We help teachers and TAs work as a team, so support is planned and purposeful.
6
Develop your support staff
TAs get the skills and confidence to grow, which supports morale and retention.
7
Deliver interventions well
TAs learn to run interventions effectively, so pupils who need extra help make progress.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We model the skills live and reflect your setting, so TAs see exactly what effective support looks like.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Grounded in EEF guidance
We build on the evidence for making best use of teaching assistants.
For TAs and leaders
We develop support staff and help leaders deploy them well.
Whole-school, group, or individual
Book an INSET, a TA team session, or coaching. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know how much difference a well-trained TA makes, especially for pupils with SEND. Our training helps your support staff make a real impact, with every decision staying focused on children.
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Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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