We are thrilled to announce that Diana Saeed is the LMP Education Apprentice of the Month for August.
Diana is a 29-year-old Level 3 SEND Teaching Assistant Apprentice at Astrea Academy Sheffield. Here is her story:
“I chose to start this programme to enhance my knowledge and learn the skills required to support all children with and without needs.
I decided to do an apprenticeship because it was more convenient as a mother, and I really enjoyed having the hands-on experience.
An apprenticeship is great for parents who struggle with childcare and for those who learn better from in the moment experience and teaching. The workload is more manageable and the support from tutors and placement is valuable.
I am proud of how far I have come in terms of developing my literacy skills, and my teaching skills. I have developed my knowledge in many areas supporting me to become a better TA.
My role is so diverse, and I love that I am trusted with big responsibility such begin responsible for whole school speech and language. I also enjoy working with all class and variety of needs.
My line manager and LMP tutor Melanie Paul have both been amazing. They are so supportive and always praising me, especially when I doubt myself.
I have enhanced many skills within this programme. One of the most important was reflection and it is so crucial in developing as an individual and as company. I reflected on myself and my work in order to be better and provide the children with more effective and tailored support.
Following the programme I have developed further passion for teaching; therefore, I would hope to progress to a HLTA course in due course or potentially consider doing a teaching course.”
Melanie Paul, Diana’s tutor said “Diana has been a consistently proactive and engaged learner, right from day one of her apprenticeship. Diana attends every training session and applies herself 100% and thoroughly enjoys learning. Diana works hard at all elements of her apprenticeship and meets all targets, achieving these to an exceptionally high standard. Diana is thought of highly by everyone in her school and readily takes on board all tasks, demonstrating her strong work ethic. Diana has recently applied all her learning when completing a mock discussion to be ready for her end point assessment. Diana completed a phenomenal mock discussion, achieving all distinction criteria first time – wow!
Diana is doing brilliantly. I can see the results in the SALTs data with Diana’s input. She has been running the SALT interventions. She is upskilling other TAs on this now, having put together all the resources. She has created resource drawers for them to access. Diana has been taking literacy and making PowerPoints to support children. It is tailored for each student. In addition to this, Diana is very good with behaviour management and is always prepared.”
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