Many classroom assistants like myself work in specialist areas of education. I have a vast amount of experience, including ten years working with children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, and I have had exactly the same EBD training as the teachers I work with. I am also a qualified nursery nurse, hold an HND in Early Childhood Studies and am in the final year of the BA (Hons) Early Childhood Studies degree. So I challenge anyone ignorant enough to suggest that classroom assistants are not educated.
As this role has become more and more demanding, so too has the need for classroom assistants to progress with their qualifications in order to do the job effectively. I would need all night if I were to begin listing all that my job entails and, yes, much of it consists of duties which many would believe to be the teacher's job, with an increasing administration workload.
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