Collaboration of teacher assistants and teachers : synergy of services in the field of inclusive education

Abstract

The authors identified important factors that influence the development of the professional identity of teacher assistants: a) general attitudes of teachers to the profession of teacher assistant; (b) a clear definition of competences between teachers and teacher assistants; (c) the ability of a teacher to appreciate the work of a teacher assistant and to use it as another source of information about students.

Keywords

• Assistants
• teachers
• professional identity
• work competences
• teacher attitudes
• teacher abilities
• inclusion
• role division
• evaluation