TA as Senco?

[ruby_tuesday]

Should TAs be the Senco?

Have just read the thread below and wondered what you thought?



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[NuttySupplier]

Hmmm. Had this experience. HT nominally the SENco, but did nothing. I really, seriously don't think it's professional. All other schools I've worked in had the Deputy as SENco, such a massive job. To go from that, to a TA... no! I know, there are TAs with degrees, qualified teachers working as TAs, but then it's just exploitation anyway, a whole other subject. Glad I'm not a parent, it winds me up just to think there's a TA with potentially no GCSE in Eng/Num working with my nephew who has language problems! If a TA was in charge of his support... bloody hell!

[Gnomoospan]

No I don't agree, for a
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of reasons, they wouldn't earn enough for the hugeness of the job, and when giving information or advice it is hard enough for qualified teachers to do that to colleagues, for a TA to go and tell a teacher how to do her job would be akin to masochism in some cases. I appreciate that there are plenty of TAs who would do it better than others but not worth it for their sake x