Supporting Teaching and Learning in School

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QUESTIONS ON ASSIGNMENT 1 COURSE: TEACHING ASSISTANT Questions 1, describe how you might contribute to a lesson given to a group of seven year old children learning to play percussion instruments. 2. WHAT Might your role be in organising, using and maintaining the learning resources, materials and equipment for this percussion lesson. 3. DESCRIBE how you act in class in order to be an effective role model for the standards of behaviour expected in pupils? 4. WHAT Strategies might you employ to encourage pupils to behave appropriately? Describe how you might react to incidents of bullying and violence. 5. DESCRIBE how you might appropriately observe the physical abilities and skills of a nine year old boy. Answers 1. My contribution would be to follow instructions given by the teacher for that particular lesson. To organise an area to seat 7 children. I would prepare the area and set out the learning material and instruments and instructions for each child to use. I would assist the children in following the teachers instructions and encourage all of the children to take part in the lesson .I would also watch the children carefully to make sure they understood the teachers instructions , if a child was struggling in would gently tell them again and help them to understand what was happening in the lesson . Engaging and encouraging each child to explore the different sounds and experiment with the instruments. If the children have different instruments in think it would be a good idea to take it in turns to try out each instrument so the child gets to experience each instrument and they can have the same experience and discuss this with each other at the end of the lesson. I can also ask them questions about which instrument they liked best. I would ask the children to use the instruments carefully and safely .I would also praise
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