There are currently 243,700 teaching assistants employed in schools across England – a number that has trebled since 2000.
New research from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has concluded that when teaching assistants are well-trained and used in "structured settings with high-quality support", they can boost pupils' learning by as much as an extra term.
The report – Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants – has identified seven golden rules for the deployment of teaching assistants, which school leaders are now being urged to adopt.
These principles are also to form the core of a new £5 million EEF campaign, focused on West and South Yorkshire, to help improve the impact of teaching assistants.
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