Get Learning Support Services Handbook

A Learning Support Assistant (LSA) helps children and young people who need support within the classroom. This role assists Teachers to create environments where pupils with extra learning needs can make the most of their education.

When planning activities the support practitioner may be able to provide insight into the needs of specific students they have been working with or ideas for who may need to placed into a smaller group environment in order to provide them with more help, they can also offer a second opinion as to what activities may be ...

To organise and maintain an inclusive learning environment across the whole school environment. Provide positive reinforcements, praise and rewards to pupils. Facilitate inclusion in small group activities with peers and support interaction between them.

Learner support focuses on what the teacher or instructor can or should do to help learners beyond the formal delivery of content, or skills development.

Support Practitioners are responsible for assisting the promotion of each individual's independence, rights and choices. Each individual we support has the right to expect to be treated with respect and dignity at all times. Support Practitioners have a duty of care to all those we support.

Service Learning is an educational approach where a student learns theories in the classroom and at the same time volunteers with an agency (usually a non-profit or social service group) and engages in reflection activities to deepen their understanding of what is being taught.

While the teacher plans the lessons, setting the learning objective and success criteria, the learning support practitioner's role is to understand the learning objective and success criteria and use knowledge of this to support the children to complete the activity or task by using assessment for learning techniques ...

Learning support practitioners work under the direction of a person leading the learning. They contribute to the provision of learning opportunities that promote the achievement and progression of the learners they support.