BBC: Teaching assistants' role queried

Hi Everyone!

Just wondered if any of you saw the following item on the BBC website? I would be really interested to hear your thoughts on this...

Nia

Teaching assistants' role queried   

BBC  04-Sep-2009
...support to children with special educational needs. The more time pupils had with support staff the less time they had with the teacher Professor Peter Blatchford The Deployment and Impact of Support Staff (DISS) project surveyed 20,000 teachers and analysed the help received by more than 8,000 pupils in 153 schools in 2005-6. The researchers were so surprised by the results of their study, that...

I would also be interested in hearing people's thoughts about this!

 

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