Research School Network: Making Best Use of Teaching Assistants (BWMAT) Exclusive to Bath & Wells MAT

This programme is designed to provide practical, evidence-based guidance to help primary, first and middle schools make the best use of teaching assistants.

• Enable schools to review and reform the deployment and preparation of teaching assistants, based on the most recent research evidence.
• Support schools to re-think, consider and address securing the best value from Teaching Assistants enabling them to make a meaningful contribution to teaching and learning.
• Support schools to plan and deliver high quality training for teachers and TAs.
• Model how the use of evidence can have a positive impact on leading change and school improvement through a process of effective implementation executed in stages.

Module 1 Foundations
Leading Evidence-Informed Improvement. An introduction to implementation and MBUTAs guidance 

Module 2 Exploring
Effective deployment of teaching assistants. Guiding principles and first steps

Module 3 Preparing
Bringing the MBUTAs evidence to life.
Part 1: recommendations 1&2

Module 4 Preparing
Bringing the MBUTAs evidence to life.
Part 2: recommendations 3 – 7

Module 5 Delivering
Applying principles in practice.
​‘Talking heads’ and mediated school-to-school conversations

Module 6 Delivering
A practice: exemplification of encountering problems. Insights from MITA journeys

Module 7 Sustaining
Securing sustainable next steps. Evolving processes, approaches and practice