Jocelyn Ampofo-Manu

Experienced cover supervisor/teaching assistant who has been able to work in both the secondary and college sector. Able to effectively regulate and control classrooms, whilst supporting students in classwork tasks and general emotional/academic support. Have been and still able to utilise skillsets to adapt to different roles successfully such as tutoring, mentoring and lecturing. Currently studying a master's degree in Public Health at Anglia Ruskin University.

Teaching Assistant/Learning Support Assistant/Tutoring/Mentor - Multiple Primary and Secondary Schools

(2023-09 - 2025-01)

Experience in supporting students in primary and secondary schools.

• Supported/assisted mild to severe SEND students in classes ranging from Mathematics to Food Technology. Supported students who had SEND needs of ADHD, dyslexia, mild to severe autism, ODD and more.
• Supported students with various class tasks, such as writing/structuring paragraphs for questions in English/other writing subjects. Supported students in Maths through answering maths questions set by the teacher and in books, assisted students with cooking preparation in food technology and helping as a reading/practical assistant in exams.
• Supported with emotional, practical and physical support for SEND students such as excusing them from class to have breaks, cleaned classrooms, gotten essential sheets for class work for certain students, reminded students of important homework/assessments/examinations, written class notes for students in class, escorted them to lunch, counselled student's briefly to boost morale for school success and more.
• Supported students especially in PRU/SEND schools with psychological/academic/physical support. Supported PRU student's by encouraging them to think about certain concepts and their underlying meanings/the intention that it serves within society.
• Mentored students to think about their life prospects and encouraged them to possess healthy personal responsibility over their lives, so that they can improve academically/interpersonally. Supported SEND students with classwork, clean up and escorting them to get picked up by parents at the end of the school day.

Cover Supervisor/Lecturing - Secondary and College Institutions

(2024-02 - 2025-06)

Experience in students secondary and college sector.

• Ensured that students would get on with class tasks set by the teacher, whilst also controlling/regulating class behaviour, helped with handing out books for students to do tasks in, as well as offered one to one support with class work itself.
• Expected to take the register of class as well, whether electronically or by paper.
• Expected to support to NEET/SEND/disengaged students who needed to acquire functional skills/GCSEs in English/Maths qualifications during lecturing sessions. Supported students with answering questions by printing and passing out past paper sheets to do in class, whilst helping them one to one or in groups with the work.
• Supported students through a life skills/safeguarding/societal awareness curriculum, by teaching emotional intelligence skills for life and the workplace, discrimination in society, safeguarding from online abuse and extremism, as well as other life topics such as personal finance, gang culture and more.

GCSEs - English Language (C), Religious Studies (B), History (C), ICT (C), Drama (C) - Buxton Secondary School (2010-09 - 2015-08)

A levels - Communication and Culture (A), English Literature (C), and Sociology (C) - Sir George Monoux College (2015-09 - 2017-08)

Bachelor's degree - Sociology - Brunel University (2017-09 - 2019-03)

Bachelor's degree - Sociology - Portsmouth University (2020-09 - 2023-08)

Master's degree - Public Health - Anglia Ruskin University (2025-09)