5/5
We hope this guidance supports you to carefully and strategically deploy teaching assistants, so that all pupils – regardless of their background – are given the right support to thrive. Download here: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...

4/5

The guidance also contains tools and practical strategies to help illustrate how you can put the recommendations to use in your school.

3/5
So what are the five recommendations?

4. Prepare and train staff around effective TA deployment

5. Engage all staff in the process of implementing effective TA deployment

2/5
So what are the five recommendations?

1. Deploy TAs in ways that enable all pupils to access high-quality teaching

2. Deploy TAs to scaffold learning and to develop pupils’ independence

3. Deploy TAs to deliver well chosen, evidence based, structured interventions where appropriate

Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants | EEF Maximise the impact of teaching assistants.

1/5
Today @theeef.bsky.social published a new edition of the guidance on teaching assistants. Based on a comprehensive review of the evidence base, the report offers five practical recommendations to support leaders to effectively deploy teaching assistants:

Launching TOMORROW: the latest edition of @theeef.bsky.social guidance on effective deployment on teaching assistants (TAs). The update to this popular resource will focus on five clear and actionable recommendations to help schools to deploy their TAs effectively. Follow on social media.

EEF opens applications for new evidence partnership for the 16-19… Charity calls on general FE and sixth form colleges to apply for funded opportunity

If you work in general FE or a 6th form college, there's an exciting opportunity to join a new evidence partnership with the @theeef.bsky.social.

Join this exciting work to support evidence use in 16 to 19 settings.

Find out more here:

educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/eef-ope...

Last week, @theeef.bsky.social announced 11 new projects for schools to take part in.

Search your school to find out what’s available: buff.ly/3wo4JkL

Coming soon! New guidance on the “Deployment of Teaching Assistants"

@theeef.bsky.social are getting ready to launch an update to one of their popular guidance reports, focused on how best to deploy teaching assistants.

✨We’re really excited to host @laouthwaite.bsky.social on 26th March to share insights on counting on parents - the role of the home maths environment, as part of our Let's Talk Maths Series🏡🧮

🔗Sign up Here... shorturl.at/VzvTy

@theeef.bsky.social @nyorkscoastrs.bsky.social

News of a Local CPD opportunity for KS1 staff - please see attached flyers and scan the QR code for more information

Unfortunately Dr Laura Outhwaite's Let's Talk Maths session tonight has had to be rescheduled to the 26th March due to illness - please spread the word. The good news is you have more time to sign up if you haven't already docs.google.com/forms/d/1_FZ... @elresearchsch.bsky.social

Do you work in the East Riding area? Do you teach years 5-8? If the answer is yes to these questions, then this FREE CPD is for you - sign up here: www.yorkshireridingsmathshub.co.uk/work-groups/...

Is it useful? In 1429 a French peasant with no military experience led an army against the Anglo-Burgundians, driving them from their bastion and forcing them to retreat across the Loire River. At the age of thi…

“We must consider the very real plausibility that identifying a child with a SEND need makes their education not better, but worse.”

A powerful, personal, and informed exploration of the current SEND system by @bennewmark.bsky.social

bennewmark.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/i...

Five ways manipulatives can be used to develop mathematical… Multi-purpose manipulatives!

💠“Manipulatives can be used in many ways to develop children’s mathematical understanding.”

@gracecoker27.bsky.social, our maths specialist, shares five ways to use manipulates.

Read more: eef.li/kbNaF8

The wrong half maths misconceptions - examining how to move forward when fractions fail

Have you read the latest blog from our Evidence Specialist yet? Kelly Duke, a maths teacher at Malton School, discusses addressing misconceptions enabling students to become successful with fractions: researchschool.org.uk/northyorksco...

🧮 We're really looking forward to our next Let's Talk Maths webinar with Ginny Reddick from London North East Maths Hub. 🧮

📅12th Feb 2025 - 4 - 5.15pm

Sign up here ⬇️
shorturl.at/thkTc

@nyorkscoastrs.bsky.social @theeef.bsky.social

🌟Join @flissj.bsky.social & Melissa to learn how to use picture books to support children’s mathematical thinking and learning in the early years. 🌟
Sign up here ➡️
shorturl.at/ENq9y

@elresearchsch.bsky.social @theeef.bsky.social