There needs to be a national career structure for teaching assistants and an acknowledgment of the diversity of roles within each school so that the criteria for promotion to the top grade becomes wider but also clearer.
As a teaching assistant in a secondary school I have found my role has developed in such a way that I have become responsible for a number of tasks that should be done by teachers but that I manage effectively. I have also found myself supervising supply teachers who lack experience and are unsure of the curriculum as well as taking classes for part of the lesson due to either teacher delays or teachers not checking the cover lists.
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