Supporting Education (4th Edition)

Part of the series Cengage Learning Australia - Early Childhood Education.

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Supporting Education is the handbook for anyone who works with qualified teachers in a role supporting the education and development of school children.

Supporting Education, 4e is designed for the Certificate III in School Based Education Support CHC30221 and Certificate IV in School Based Education Support CHC40221 qualifications. It provides education support workers with an overview of child development and how children learn, as well an introduction to the key learning areas.

Included instructor resources comprise solutions manual, intermediate mapping grid and ‘Go further’ exercises. Instructor Resource Packs include Test Bank, premium PowerPoints, case databases, activity sheets and instructor’s handbook.

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What's New:

• NEW chapter on resources
• NEW instructor support material aligned to competencies: PowerPoints, cases
• NEW competency-based activity sheets
• NEW images and examples of secondary school classroom settings
• Heading levels more clearly aligned with competency descriptors so that students and trainers have oversight of coverage of the qualification

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Key Features:

• The author has taken a commonsense approach to competency coverage, and has sometimes addressed more than one unit in a chapter, which reduces repetition; chapters are all mapped
• Teacher support material is mapped, and additional learning material is provided with cases, Powerpoint and activity sheets to assist lesson planning and student engagement with the course
• The text assists students to extend learning by identifying 'Go further' content throughout, accessed via the Instructor Resource Pack or online

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Table of Contents:

Part A: Working in a school environment
1. The role of the education support worker
2. Working in a legislative environment
3. Working with diverse people
4. Workplace health and safety
5. Student health, safety and wellbeing
6. Child protection

Part B: Supporting learning and development
7. Introduction to child and adolescent development
8. Physical growth, development and learning
9. Social and emotional development and learning
10. Cognitive and language development and learning
11. Theory to practice
12. Reporting and assessment

PART C: Literacy and numeracy
13. Introduction to becoming literate
14. Oral language and writing
15. Reading
16. Supporting numeracy development

Part D Supporting students with additional needs
17. Support for students with disability
18. Supporting behaviour
19. Support students with English as an additional language
20. Search and access online information and resources NEW