What You Need to be a Teaching Assistant
Are you considering a change of career? Does being a teaching assistant sound like something that appeals to you but you don’t know where to get started or what you need to be able to do the role? Allow us to help with our guide to being a TA.
Skills One of the things you will require to be a teaching assistant is the ability to build a comfortable relationship with children. This needs you to have a sensitivity that will allow you to appreciate the requirements of the children, so listening to them is a skill set required for this role. You will also need strong verbal skills that create positivity and motivate the children to want to learn, as well as the ability to actually teach them new things and engage their interest in that subject. A strong skill you need to have is the patience and strength to stay calm under pressure and in delicate situations while creating the best environment for the children to learn and be taught new things.