The Competence of Teacher Assistants in the Context of Working with Visually Impaired Students. Needs of the Environment and the Vision of Change

The text contains an analysis of the competence of a special education teacher, with particular emphasis on the competence of one working as a teacher assistant with blind and visually impaired students. It attempts to answer the question of what competence a teacher assistant should have. On the one hand, this competence must be a response to the current needs of students with visual impairments, their teachers and parents. In line with the current approach to inclusive education, the teacher assistant who works with visually impaired students should be equipped with a whole array of competences, especially a number of highly specialised ones. On the other hand, taking into account e.g. creative and ethical competences, universities educating future teachers of the kind are not able to equip graduates with full competences.The text contains an analysis of the competence of a special education teacher, with particular emphasis on the competence of one working as a teacher assistant with blind and visually impaired students. It attempts to answer the question of what competence a teacher assistant should have. On the one hand, this competence must be a response to the current needs of students with visual impairments, their teachers and parents. In line with the current approach to inclusive education, the teacher assistant who works with visually impaired students should be equipped with a whole array of competences, especially a number of highly specialised ones. On the other hand, taking into account e.g. creative and ethical competences, universities educating future teachers of the kind are not able to equip graduates with full competences

Improved Knowledge Distillation via Teacher Assistant

Despite the fact that deep neural networks are powerful models and achieve appealing results on many tasks, they are too large to be deployed on edge devices like smartphones or embedded sensor nodes. There have been efforts to compress these networks, and a popular method is knowledge distillation, where a large (teacher) pre-trained network is used to train a smaller (student) network. However, in this paper, we show that the student network performance degrades when the gap between student and teacher is large. Given a fixed student network, one cannot employ an arbitrarily large teacher, or in other words, a teacher can effectively transfer its knowledge to students up to a certain size, not smaller. To alleviate this shortcoming, we introduce multi-step knowledge distillation, which employs an intermediate-sized network (teacher assistant) to bridge the gap between the student and the teacher. Moreover, we study the effect of teacher assistant size and extend the framework to multi-step distillation. Theoretical analysis and extensive experiments on CIFAR-10,100 and ImageNet datasets and on CNN and ResNet architectures substantiate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.Comment: AAAI 202

Legal Protection Of Welfare Teacher Assistant Garden Children

The problems that arise in this research are: 1. What is the Realization of Legal Protection for Kindergarten Assistance Teachers' Welfare in Demak Regency, 2. What Barriers Arise in Protecting the Rights of Kindergarten Assistance Teachers in Demak Regency, 3 How is the Kindergarten Assistance Teacher Contract Completion after the employment contract ends.The method used in this research is qualitative descriptive with the research location in Demak Regency. Data sources use primary and secondary data. Respondents in this study were drawn by means of "purposive sampling". Data collection techniques by interview, observation and documentation. Data analysis uses inductive thinking with a flow analysis model which is divided into three main components. To determine the final result, an interactive analysis model is used.The results of the discussion and analysis of this study indicate that the Decree of the Minister of Education No. 034 / U / 2003 Regarding Assisted Teachers, it does not explicitly provide legal protection for the welfare of Kindergarten Assistance Teachers. Barriers that arise in protecting the rights of Assistance Teachers are the absence of the relevance of regulations applicable to Kindergarten Assistance Teachers. The completion of the Assistance Teacher contract agreement after the work contract ends, a Contract Agreement (SPK) is signed once a year until the age of 60 years, if evaluated it still meets the formal requirements. The implementation of legal protection for the welfare of Kindergarten Assistance Teachers has not been as expected.Keywords: Legal Protection, Assistance Teacher Welfare

Teacher and teacher assistant perceptions of their relationship

This qualitative research study examined teachers’ and teacher assistants’ perceptions of their working relationships. Three teachers and three teacher assistants reflected specifically on their work experiences and interactions with their job partners in their respective schools, as they worked to provide supports to students with a variety of behavioral, academic and medical needs. Two main questions guided this research: How did each participant describe their working relationship with his/her job partner? What factors were perceived as influential on a positive and effective working relationship? Thematic analysis of the qualitative interview data from the participants informed the generation of dominant themes. The role of administration, professional interaction, and personal attributes emerged as main factors influencing the teacher and teacher assistant relationship. The researcher provides a model for conceptualizing this relationship and suggests that professionalism is required of both parties in the relationship. The model of professionalism is supported by three main behaviors exhibited by people in the relationship: competence, collegiality, and clarity of role

The Teacher Assistant Programme Across The UAE: Empower To Include

This paper presents the findings of a government-funded research project that was aimed at providing well-trained teacher assistants to enable inclusion of learners with intellectual disabilities in 21 Emirati government schools across the United Arab Emirates. The project is a first in the country and attracted media attention because of its dual benefit in not only supporting the national trend of the inclusion of learners with disabilities in mainstream schools, but also enabling empowerment of young Emirati women who did not make it to higher education for some reason or another but are keen to join the work force. The main research question was, “what is the impact of the programme on the lives of those Emirati women who became teacher assistants and on the education process in the school where they were trained?” Mixed methods were applied to achieve the aims of the project. Provisional results showed that having a well-trained teacher assistant in class, alongside the class teacher in Emirati mainstream schools, supports and empowers young learners with intellectual disabilities and contributes to an effective and long-lasting inclusive education. In relation to the Emirati trainees, the programme was effective and it supported such young women to secure a place in the work force as well as equipped them with new skills that they found useful for their own self-development and their respective communities across the UAE. The project was funded by the Emirates Foundation for the UAE Down Syndrome Association in collaboration with the British University in Dubai and the Ministry of Education in the UAE

Teacher Assistant in Primary school

The Master's thesis deals with the issue of cooperation between a teacher and a teaching assistant. In the introduction to the theoretical part, the thesis deals with the concept of integration, inclusion and inclusive education. Furthermore, it also includes the current legislation establishing the function of a teaching assistant, qualification and personality requirements of the teaching assistant and the resulting risks of the teaching assistant's function at primary schools. All this information related to the topic of teaching assistants at lower primary schools is the basis for the research part of the paper, which is done through a qualitative research. The research is carried out at one selected primary school in Prague. The empirical part of the thesis maps examples of good practice, forms of co-operation between the teacher and the teaching assistant, a system of support at the selected school using materials provided by the school, and also focuses on mapping out the difficulties resulting from the co-operation of the teaching assistant and the teacher. The source materials for the research part were processed by means of questionnaires with open questions, a semi-structured interview with the headmaster and also by common observation and observation directly in the lessons of specific...Diplomová práce se zabývá problematikou spolupráce učitele s asistentem pedagoga. V úvodu teoretické části se práce zabývá pojmem integrace, inkluze a inkluzivní vzdělávání. Dále také současnou legislativou ustanovující funkci asistenta pedagoga, kvalifikačním a osobnostním předpokladům asistenta pedagoga a z toho vyplývajícími riziky funkce asistenta pedagoga na základní škole. Všechny tyto informace vztahující se k tématu asistent pedagoga na I. stupni ZŠ jsou podkladem pro výzkumnou část práce, která je prováděna pomocí kvalitativního výzkumu. Výzkum je realizován na jedné vybrané fakultní základní škole v Praze. Empirická část práce mapuje příklady dobré praxe, formy spolupráce učitele a asistenta pedagoga, systém podpory na vybrané škole pomocí materiálů poskytnuté školou a věnuje se také zmapování úskalí, která vyplývají ze spolupráce asistenta pedagoga a učitele. Podklady pro výzkumnou část byly zpracovávány pomocí dotazníků s otevřenými otázkami, polostrukturovaným rozhovorem s ředitelem školy a také pozorováním a zúčastněným pozorováním přímo ve vyučovacích hodinách konkrétních učitelů a asistentů pedagoga. Všechny tyto metody sběru dat jsem použila ke stanovenému cíli práce, kterým bylo vytvoření souboru doporučení, která pomohou vybrané škole zefektivnit a zkvalitnit fungování spolupráce...Katedra preprimární a primární pedagogikyFaculty of EducationPedagogická fakult

GWU Degree Completion Program Recognizes Student with Community Engagement Award

Through Gardner-Webb University’s fully-online Teacher Assistants to Teachers program, Heather Foushee is earning a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education without giving up the job she loves. A teacher assistant in the third grade at Vass (N.C.) Lakeview Elementary, Foushee expects to graduate in 2024.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/3454/thumbnail.jp