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Teaching Assistant (TA) Reviews
What is it like working as a Teaching Assistant (TA)?
March 2016
Teaching Assistant (TA):
Pros: Making children's school time happy.
Cons: Lack of ability to up skill.
March 2016
Very rewarding.
Teaching Assistant (TA):
Pros: Knowing the child is achieving via my teaching.
Cons: Can be hard working 1:1.
December 2015
Run Breakfast Club, Cover teachers when planning.
Teaching Assistant (TA):
Make sure you have a teaching assistant qualification before applying for jobs in school. Most schools require this.
May 2015
You have to do it all!
Teaching Assistant (TA):
Be ready to do it all, especially if you are working with disabled students. From creating a repoire to understanding their 'stimming' behaviors and what makes them anxious our uncomfortable. From wiping noses to wiping behinds. Teaching socially acceptable behaviors and understanding their emotions. Patience is a virtue in this position! You need to be sensitive and caring and non-judgmental. You need to be able to get dirty and take care of their personal needs. You will have small successes that need celebrating, and days when you see no improvement at all.
May 2015
It's great. My boss is wonderful, and I'm sure that helps.
Teaching Assistant (TA):
Pros: The atmosphere. The students. My coworkers. Those of us who have been around more than a year have become sort of a family. I love it there. It's my favorite job. And there's a lot of flexibility for different scheduling every academic quarter.
Cons: I dislike that there's a limit to the number of hours I'm allowed to work (so the school doesn't have to provide benefits). It gets really stressful at the end of the quarter, or when we're understaffed because someone needed to take the day off.
February 2015
REWARDING.
Teaching Assistant (TA):
Pros: Supporting children's needs and seeing progress made.
Cons: Being undervalued by Senior Managers and being paid the incorrect grade for my duties.
January 2015
Rewarding.
Teaching Assistant (TA):
Pros: Seeing a child happy, able to understand a difficult task and know it was through.
Your help.
Cons: The salary and unpaid overtime making resources and planning. Also the stress levels.
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