"They went on the so-called front-line": Headteachers on the importance of teacher assistants supporting Roma students during Covid-19 pandemic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11410%2F21%3A10430933" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11410/21:10430933 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=9joSlSMGys" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=9joSlSMGys</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/epd.2021.022" target="_blank" >10.5507/epd.2021.022</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

"They went on the so-called front-line": Headteachers on the importance of teacher assistants supporting Roma students during Covid-19 pandemic

Original language description

Socially disadvantaged Roma students are one of the most vulnerable groups in education. Since the 1990s, one of the effective tools supporting the education of these students has been the job of teacher assistant (TA). The article presents the results of a study focused on the distance education of Roma students during school closures at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The research was based on semi-structured interviews with headteachers and other school staff from six elementary schools attended by socially disadvantaged Roma students. The aim of the study was to describe examples of good practice in distance education; the article focuses particularly on the contribution of teacher assistants, which consisted of: a) TAs establishing contact with students who do not attend online lessons; b) TAs helping to distribute printed learning materials to students, at schools as well as in the localities where the students lived; c) TAs providing one-to-one consultations for the students who were the most in need; d) TAs helping students and their parents to learn how to use the programs necessary for online learning; e) TAs providing online tutoring for students; f) TAs helping teachers with the organization of teaching in smaller groups of students after the schools opened. The described examples of good practice should be the starting point for the further professional development of teacher assistants and their involvement in the education of socially disadvantaged Roma students.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

e-Pedagogium [on-line]

ISSN

1213-7499

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

21

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

7-17

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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