Course Content:
The Outstanding Teaching Assistant Programme is for teaching assistants who are, or who have the potential to be, outstanding in their roles. It is intended to develop the potential for Teaching Assistants to have a wider impact on improving the quality of teaching and learning across the school. Designed and facilitated by experienced school leaders and teachers the OTAP forms part of the OLEVI Teaching & Learning Syllabus which has gained a national reputation for raising standards
in teaching and learning.

• Place a greater emphasis on the purpose and value of the lessons they support
• Raise levels of engagement and achievement in learning
• Use different methods and styles of support to challenge learners
• Innovate and take risks
• Have a bigger impact on the planning and assessment for the learners they support
• Demonstrate a higher level understanding of teaching and learning
• Be able to coach their peers to raise performance

Dates:
11/06/25   Session 1: 1:00pm – 3:30pm
18/06/25   Session 2: 1:00pm – 3:30pm
25/07/25   Session 3: 1:00pm – 3:30pm
02/07/25   Session 4: 1:00pm – 3:30pm

About Carolyn Williams:
Carolyn is Head of Year 4 at Warren Road Primary School and has led Spelling and Phonics whilst teaching for a number of years in Key Stage 1. Walk into her classroom and you will see her love of developing vocabulary and how she instils this in even the youngest of children. She also has a passion for empowering TAs to reflect on their own practice through thought provoking training, based on a coaching approach.

These courses are provided in conjunction with Olevi. Click here to visit their website site.

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