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Debbie Dockerty LLLC 1203 Introduction to Professional Studies in Teaching and Learning. Should Teaching Assistants teach whole classes and is it fair to everyone involved? This essay is going to look at the role of teaching assistants in schools, from when they were first introduced to the education system onto how the job has changed with particular focus to the last three years. It will consider the proposals that the government feel is needed in order to raise standards in schools while also taking into consideration the teachers workload and whether the answer is to employ more teaching assistants. The first teaching assistants were employed as special needs assistants and were named S.E.N Assistants (Special Educational Needs). Their job was to support children with special educational needs as they were integrated into mainstream education. This was a proposal back in 1978 in the Warnock report who felt mainstream schools could successfully educate children...

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