**Delivered by our partner New City College, located in Hackney, London** A course for teaching assistants – improve your qualifications and develop your professional knowledge. - This degree is delivered locally through Bath College partnership with Bath Spa University. - Much of the learning on this vocational course will take place in your workplace. - This degree provides a route into teaching with a third year 'top-up' to honours degree level. Embark on professional and career development. This course is for teaching assistants or learning and inclusion support assistants in all areas of teaching: early years, primary schools, secondary schools, special schools and post-16 teaching. The course covers all aspects of the work of the teaching assistant: the ways children develop and learn; appropriate and inclusive teaching methods; supporting learners with additional needs; social and emotional issues and contexts in learning; policy and legislation. The course has a strong vocational element; you'll relate your own understandings of theory directly to your practice. Skilled and experienced teaching assistants need a specific route into higher education designed to reflect their diverse roles and responsibilities and the changing role and status of the school/college based teaching assistant; this course has been designed to meet those needs.

This course aims to develop reflective education practitioners, who will make valuable contributions to to the lives and learning of children. You’ll explore the status of children in society and discuss how you can allow the voice of the child to be heard. You’ll gain a thorough understanding of the regulatory and legislative framework for early years, and the government’s agenda and strategies as they relate to young children and their families. Through work-based learning, you’ll have the opportunity to complete a research project on an area of your choice, connected to your professional interests.

Assessment is carried out in a variety of ways: - Critical reading/literature reviews. - Seminar presentations. - Collaborative investigations. - Seminar reports and journals. - Investigative reports. - Practice in the workplace. - Written essays.

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: NCC1

Institution code: B20

Campus Name: New City College

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

Appropriate accredited Level 3 qualifications (for example A-levels or vocational qualifications). Working or placement as a teaching assistant (or in a similar role). This will be assessed on an individual basis. Completion of a Criminal Records Bureau Enhanced Application through Bath Spa University.

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English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

Student satisfaction : 68%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 74%

Go onto work and study: 84%

Additional Fee Information are not listed for this Course.

Newton Park
Newton St Loe
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Bath
BA2 9BN