Craft Your Standout Personal Statement for Teaching Assistant Positions
Securing a job as a teaching assistant requires a compelling personal statement to showcase your skills, experience, and motivations. This eBook provides a step-by-step guide to crafting a personal statement that will impress hiring managers and land you the role.
Learn how to:
Structure your statement effectively with an engaging opening, detailed body paragraphs, and strong conclusion.
Highlight your relevant education, classroom experience, and work history.
Demonstrate your teaching-related abilities and knowledge.
Convey your passion and fit for the specific role and school.
Use vivid examples and achievements to back up your claims.
Tailor your content specifically to each job description.
Avoid common pitfalls and polish your writing.
The eBook includes:
Personal statement dos and dont’s
Templates and samples to guide your writing
Tips for formatting and supplemental documents
Actionable advice for every section
Checklists to review your drafts
Resources for next steps in your application
With the techniques in this eBook, you’ll develop a personal statement that gets you noticed and interviewed. Set yourself apart from the competition and get ready to launch your teaching assistant career!
An evidence sheet for all the units within the ASDAN transition challenge Making Choices module. Worksheets are included for a number of the units. Symbol supported.
This Sensory Story tells the Easter Story From Jesus entering Jerusalem to his ascension. It as simple terms possible.
Each page contains 3 suggested sensory resources.
It is written in rhyming format to make it fun and engaging to tell and be part of.
Great for EYFS or PMLD/SLD learners.
Designed and written for a PMLD group this Sensory Story can be easily adapted for EYFS and even Key Stage 1 settings. As I am lucky enough to have access to a multi-sensory room there is a video on youtube that depending on your reading speed will act as a background to your story making it more immersive. You could even play this on an interactive whiteboard.
The Story is included as an easily printed PDF with an image for each page. This means any independent readers can read along.
This Sensory Story was written for our PMLD learners for the Ancient Egypt topic. Consisting of a PDF booklet and a story mat, the story is written in poem format which allows for easy adaptation for use in EYFS settings.
A table of suggested sensory resources is included on each page. Most of these are designed to be resourced using objects that are relatively easy to find.
This Alien sensory story continues our “You Might be” series of simple sensory based stories that are based around a single character concept. Your learner can dress up as the character or just explore each element. You can easily create an immersive sensory space for Aliens by lighting up the room red and green or hanging Silver emergency blankets to represent a spacecraft.
An SEN focused worksheet looking at safer strangers. A good fit for ASDAN or PIVATS evidence. P4-P8 levels. Widgit symbol supported. There is a carers and a teachers worksheet supplied.
A Lego focused resources for working with TEACCH system or developing interaction skills. A set of 9 tasks and a communication board to enable students to request different blocks.
Hero Cards are based on the concept of social stories. These widgit symbol supported cards feature a character who displays the desired behaviour. Please visit inclusiveteach.com for more or to request a specific person or behaviour.
A booklet Containing 5 Classic Christmas Songs each with suggested sensory resources to enhance the engagement of all pupils. Specifically designed for autistic and PMLD pupils these songs will also be perfect for Early years.
Frosty The Snowman
Jingle Bells
Away in a manger
When Santa got stuck up the chimney
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
A resource pack of 29 pages of worksheets, matching tasks and other activities for use in EYFS or with SEN. Can be laminated for TEACCH or Folder tasks. Some can also be used with toy cars etc as base mats.
Titles supported with "In Print" symbols.
This is in powerpoint so colours etc can quickly be changed and adapted.
A Pack of worksheets that can be used for lessons with all learners, most symbol supported. Will also help with completing ASDAN transition Challenge modules. Knowing How and Making Choices.
2 Sensory Stories designed to focus on a single word.
These two super simple sensory stories cover just one concept each. Hot and Cold. This vocabulary is reinforced by everyday objects that are cold and hot. You shouldn’t need any expensive resources and can adapt each line to fit what you have available.
Curriculum Links
The vocabulary Hot and Cold are essential to learn in a variety of contexts. These Sensory Stories can help reinforce a number of curriculum areas.
Science
RSE – Washing, clothing
Weather
Time – seasons
Food Technology
Includes two free printable PDF booklets
You might be Santa forms part of our “You might be” style sensory story collection. These stories are based around becoming the character by adding props or a costume. They are super simple and designed to appeal to as wide a range of learners and curriculum topics as possible.
To deliver the story collect all the sensory objects in a bag, box, or, in this particular instance, Father Christmas’s sack. Afterward, the article is removed either upon or following the reading of the specified statement. Throughout this task, use your skills to generate excitement and curiosity in anticipation of the eventual unveiling.