This fascinating guide provides teaching assistants with essential information on:
- understanding what learning is and how it happens
- creating an effective learning environment
- planning for learning
- developing pupils’ thinking skills and supporting them as they learn how to learn
- supporting learning for pupils with Special Educational Needs

The Teaching Assistant’s Guide to Understanding and Supporting Learning is essential reading for teaching assistants studying for Foundation Degrees or for the Higher Level Teaching Assistant status. It would also be recommended reading for all teaching assistants interested in knowing more about how children learn.

1. What is learning? How does it happen?
2. Learning styles and multiple intelligences
3. The learning environment
4. The learning cycle planning
5. Learning to learn
6. Thinking for learning
7. Supporting learning for pupils with special educational needs
8. Where can you go next?

Madeleine Graf is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Swansea Metropolitan University. She teaches on a number of programmes within the School of Education, including the Foundation Degree in Learning Support. Her main interests are in 'Teaching and Learning' and Education for Global Citizenship.