Brilliant Teaching Assistant
ISBN-13: 9780273734420
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Market
'Teaching is now one of the most sought after professions...a recent survey found teaching is now the top destination for university leavers' Institute of Career Guidance online, 8 May 2009
The Education Market has increased significantly - 312618 units (£5,027,745) were sold in 2004, this has risen to 419524 units (£7,084,650) sold in 2009.
Benchmark
Competition in this market is varied in price and many of the resources are now becoming quite outdated, and not reflecting changes in standards. Our author is a household name in the field of TA resources, whose NVQ handbooks sell in their thousands each year.
Other books on the market include:
Morgan, Jill. How to be a Successful Teaching Assistant. Continuum, March 2006. 141pp, £11.99.
Birkett, Veronica. How to Survive and Succeed as a Teaching Assistant. LDA, April 2008. 64pp, £9.99.
About the Author
Louise Burnham has vast experience in varying roles within the school. She has worked as a primary teacher for 11 years, 3 of these as teacher governor. She has 3 years experience as SENCO managing teaching assistants, 5 years as health and safety representative and 3 as a union representative. She has worked as curriculum manager for Science and Music, and currently works part time in a primary school, where part of her role is to manage teaching assistants.
Louise is a successful and established author for Heinemann, having written 3 textbooks to support the NVQ for teaching assistants:
The Teaching Assistant’s Handbook for primary schools (NVQ level 3) (2002)
The Teaching Assistant’s Handbook for secondary schools (NVQ level 3) (2004)
The Teaching Assistant’s Handbook (NVQ level 2) (2003)
Louise is also the author of Continuum’s 101 Essential Lists for Teaching Assistants (March 2006).
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