ICT Skills for Teaching Assistants in Schools

The objectives of the practical course run in the school's ICT suite are:

1. to provide teaching assistants with better understanding of:
   • supporting ICT in the classroom.
   • health and safety issues.
   • digital terminology.
2. to provide teaching assistants with better skills in the use of:
   • Windows concepts.
   • graphs and pie charts
   • symbols, images and tables in word processing.
   • slideshows.
   • desktop publishing for displays and booklets
   • files and folders

Schools at which this course has been successfully run:

• Muxton County Primary School, Telford
• Worfeld CE Primary School, Worfield, Shropshire
• Adderley CE Primary School, Market Drayton, Shropshire
• Ashford Carbonell Primary School, Ludlow, Shropshire
• Mesty Croft Primary School, Wednesbury, Sandwell
• Albert Pritchard Infant School, Wednesbury, Sandwell
• St. Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Stoke
• Sandwell Aces Programme for Learning Mentors
• Crockett’s Lane Primary School, Smethwick, Sandwell
• Wellington Primary School, Hereford
• Norton-in-Hales Primary School, Market Drayton, Shropshire
• Landywood & Glenthorne Primary Schools, Walsall
• Holy Name R.C. Primary School, Great Barr, Sandwell

At the conclusion of the course teaching assistance should more confidence in the use of ICT themselves and with pupils in school.

The course is normlly run over one-day but may be run in 2 or 4 sessions on separate days as appropriate.

For an additional fee of a set of ICT Resources from Pearson Publishing in Cambridge can be supplied for your school. These resources comprise seven modules accessed using Adobe Acrobat Reader that can be used for reference and further self-paced training.