I am in a reflective mood this rainy August morning. This blog may stray onto a bit of a personal theme, so forgive me. Back in December I pledged to take up the #teacher5aday challenge and pledged to focus on 5 areas of my practice with the aim of improving my Wellbeing. The idea … Read more
This blog is, and I will say it now – a bit of a ramble, a shambolic collection of half-baked ideas. It was triggered by a recent change in my life that has left me carting carloads of stuff to the tip. Moving boxes to one room to tidy another then back & years’ worth … Read more
Why is Teaching Online Safety to SEN Pupils so Important? n this blog I will look at why teaching online safety is so important to ensure that our most vulnerable students are supported. What is it that makes students with special educational needs so vulnerable? I am primarily talking about those students with complex needs … Read more
Lynn McCann writes this post about developing an effective model for delivering continuing professional development courses. She supports a range of schools and other educational organisations with students with additional needs. Lynn runs a consultancy business, she is definitely concerned about the outcomes of her support on the children. She supplies a lot of free … Read more
There are some excellent lessons we educators can take from George RR Martin’s epic tale of the fight for the throne of Westeros. Game Of Thrones has some brilliant quotes about Friendship, the struggle against an adversary, loyalty to name just a few. Here is a selection of quotes that you may find apply to … Read more
6 Essential Practical Elements of Effective CPD Training is big business. The reason for this is because Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is such a wide term. A school’s training budget can cover a multitude of areas, non teaching and learning areas such as: health and safety, food hygiene, seagull avoidance, first aid, fire awareness, the … Read more
These blogs are those that I have visited often and found great ideas, positivity or inspiration for my own writing from. Due to the nature of the blogosphere there are likely to be many great blogs I have missed, some great bloggers are reticent to promote their writing. If you know of a great blog please add it to the comments I will be doing a second post later this month.
For my first post I thought I would write a few ideas about making your classroom as accessible and inclusive as possible. Each student is of course an individual and these are just general ideas that may help you.
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