all students. Teacher aides’ 1 2 3 4 5 knowledge and Support is required for teacher Teacher aides have some subject Teacher aides have appropriate understanding aides to develop their subject knowledge in key areas and basic subject knowledge and knowledge and understanding understandings of important understandings of teaching of teaching strategies. teaching strategies. strategies, which they apply effectively to support student learning. Our score: [Guide: 5–11: Definitely needs attention 12–18: Doing OK, but there’s room for improvement 19–25: A strength in our school] How are we doing in this area? What do our students, families, whānau, teacher aides, and teachers say about how we are doing in this area? What are our specific strengths in this area? Are there particular aspects we need to work on? If we were to improve these aspects, what might we see happening? What specific actions could we take? What barriers might we have to overcome? School leaders’ management of the teacher aide resource EMERGING DEVELOPING CONSOLIDATING School leaders’ views 1 2 3 4 5 of teacher aides’ roles School leaders view teacher School leaders view teacher aides School leaders view teacher aides aides as extra support for as a support for teachers of as part of the total school system students with additional needs; students with additional needs focused on student achievement there are few processes and and establish processes and and ensure there are processes and
all students. Teacher aides’ knowledge and understanding 1 2 3 4 5 Support is required for teacher aides to develop their subject knowledge and understanding of teaching strategies. Teacher aides have some subject knowledge in key areas and basic understandings of important teaching strategies. Teacher aides have appropriate subject knowledge and understandings of teaching strategies, which they apply effectively to support student learning. Our score: [Guide: 5–11: Definitely needs attention 12–18: Doing OK, but there’s room for improvement 19–25: A strength in our school] How are we doing in this area? What do our students, families, whānau, teacher aides, and teachers say about how we are doing in this area? What are our specific strengths in this area? Are there particular aspects we need to work on? If we were to improve these aspects, what might we see happening? What specific actions could we take? What barriers might we have to overcome? School leaders’ management of the teacher aide resource EMERGING DEVELOPING CONSOLIDATING School leaders’ views of teacher aides’ roles 1 2 3 4 5 School leaders view teacher aides as extra support for students with additional needs; there are few processes and School leaders view teacher aides as a support for teachers of students with additional needs and establish processes and School leaders view teacher aides as part of the total school system focused on student achievement and ensure there are processes and
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