Specialist Teaching Assistant Level 5

Develop your teaching career within a particular specialism.

The Specialist Teaching Assistant Level 5 Apprenticeship offers a unique opportunity to specialize in three key areas. Choose from one of these pathways: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), Social and Emotional Wellbeing, Curriculum Support (EAL, early reading, and more).

Whether in primary, secondary or alternative education settings, you’ll make a real difference by fostering inclusion, promoting positive behaviours, and advocating for learners’ needs. With a typical duration of 18 months, this apprenticeship is your gateway to advancing both your career and the lives of children.

The core knowledge, skills and behaviours you'll develop on the course:

• Plan and adapt learning activities.
• Support learners across all age ranges.
• Establish a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment for learners.
• Use a range of research to critically evaluate teaching and assessment approaches and practices.
• Work alongside teachers and education professionals.
• Develop expert knowledge to enhance student progress.
• Contribute to the planning of learning and assessment activities.
  
  

Why choose Inspire ATA?

We work with high-quality training providers to deliver a wide range of training programmes through a blended learning approach that is tailored to each learner's needs.

Inspire ATA recruits and employs each apprentice on behalf of the "host" client, enabling us to offer additional support and a better experience for both apprentice and client. We can also offer flexi-job apprenticeships which means we are able to offer short term contracts and other non-standard employment models.

"I have received great support from Inspire ATA. I have regular meetings with my tutor to manage my workload."

• Knowledge
• Skills
• Behaviours
• Statutory and non-statutory curriculum frameworks relevant to the provision.
• Statutory and non-statutory health, safety and well-being frameworks relevant to the provision, including safeguarding.
• Policies, processes and procedures related to the collecting, storing and sharing of information.
• The principles of equity, equality, diversity and inclusion, and why these are important.
• The principles of sustainability within the education context.
• Theories of learning, their application and implications for learning.
• Typical patterns of child development and age related expectations. How these differ for individual learners and the implication of these.
• Sources of information of research informed evidence-based practice.
• Act in line with policies, processes and procedures related to statutory frameworks and non-statutory guidance, including safeguarding, implementing the setting’s behaviour policy.
• Establish a safe, stimulating and nurturing environment for learners.
• Establish nurturing, effective working relationships with learners, parents or carers and stakeholders.
• Demonstrate understanding of equality and diversity and sustainable development.
• Undertake dynamic risk assessment of the learning environment.
• Respond to and mitigate potential hazards that may adversely affect a learning environment.
• Contribute to the planning of learning and assessment activities.
• Apply teaching strategies to advance learning.
• Select and use safely, appropriate equipment and resources to advance learning.
• Act professionally, positively, and proactively.
• Show respect, care, approachability and empathy for children, colleagues and stakeholders.
• Adaptable and resilient.
• Eager to develop as a practitioner, by being receptive and open to challenge and constrictive criticism