Both teachers and TAs play an important role in monitoring and assessing the children’s learning. Assessments are carried on daily, throughout the day. It is the responsibility of the teacher to know how each child in the class is progressing, how to ‘push’ the children to reach age related levels and to be able to set achievable targets in order for the children to progress.
Assessment is an aid to this and is an ongoing process used in many ways. As TAs we need to be able to support teaches in this process.
Teachers should plan lessons and set out clear S.M.A.R.T learning objectives so that learners’ progression can be measured. TAs must be aware of these objectives in order to support the children with their learning.