What’s on the Deploying Support Staff poster
A definition and 6 facts worth remembering.
Teaching assistants support learning most when they are prepared, given a defined role and used to supplement teaching. Used as a substitute for teacher contact, the effect can be negative.
- The DISS project found negative associations with progress.
- The cause was deployment, not the staff themselves.
- Velcro support reduces independence and peer contact.
- The pupils with most need got least teacher time.
- Structured interventions delivered by TAs work well.
- Preparation time before the lesson is the key variable.
- Study — DISS, 2009
- Effect depends on — deployment
- Scaffold towards independence: prompt, then clue, then model, then correct. Start wit…
Educational reference. The finding is about how schools deploy support, not about the value of the staff, and it changed national guidance.
Questions about the Deploying Support Staff poster
- What’s on the Deploying Support Staff poster?
- A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. Teaching assistants support learning most when they are prepared, given a defined role and used to supplement teaching. Used as a substitute for teacher contact, the effect can be negative. The DISS project found negative associations with progress.; The cause was deployment, not the staff themselves.; Velcro support reduces independence and peer contact.; The pupils with most need got least teacher time.; Structured interventions delivered by TAs work well.; Preparation time before the lesson is the key variable.; Study — DISS, 2009; Effect depends on — deployment; Scaffold towards independence: prompt, then clue, then model, then correct. Start wit…. Educational reference. The finding is about how schools deploy support, not about the value of the staff, and it changed national guidance.
- Who is the Deploying Support Staff poster for?
- Deploying Support Staff belongs to the Education section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning inclusive education can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Deploying Support Staff poster?
- Read it before a pupil is assigned a permanent adult at their side. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Deploying Support Staff belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Deploying Support Staff?
- Access Arrangements, Accessible Materials and Adaptive Teaching sit alongside Deploying Support Staff in the Education section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Access ArrangementsAccessible MaterialsAdaptive Teaching
- Is the Deploying Support Staff poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Deploying Support Staff downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Education section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Deploying Support Staff poster print at?
- Deploying Support Staff is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Deploying Support Staff loses nothing.Printing guide
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