At the heart of the new findings, the EEF says that students who struggle in the classroom should be spending at least as much time with the teacher as their peers.
Teaching assistant deployment, the report adds, should allow all students to access high-quality teaching.
The recommendations also emphasise the role of teaching assistants in helping to scaffold learning, develop students’ independence, and deliver interventions as appropriate.
The report also includes a completely new recommendation highlighting the importance of engaging all school staff to ensure consistent use and deployment of teaching assistants in the school.
The update comes 10 years after the EEF first published its research review on the effective use of teaching assistants in the classroom.
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