From Teacher Aides to Teaching Assistants: how Plowden promoted parental participation in our primary schools
FORUM - Print ISSN 1474-7685 - Online ISSN 2047-7171
Volume 49 Number 1 & 2 (2007)
From Teacher Aides to Teaching Assistants: how Plowden promoted parental participation in our primary schools
MIKE AYLEN pages 107‑114
DOI: 10.2304/forum.2007.49.1.107
Abstract
The author describes the changes which classroom assistants have seen over the past 40 years in terms of their job title and role. He argues that the Plowden Report's recommendations for greater responsibilities, better training opportunities and an increase in the number of teaching assistants in schools are at last being implemented.
To cite this article
MIKE AYLEN (2007) From Teacher Aides to Teaching Assistants: how Plowden promoted parental participation in our primary schools, FORUM, 49(1 & 2 ), 107-114 . https://doi.org/10.2304/forum.2007.49.1.107