This category brings together practical, inclusive strategies for supporting pupils with SEND across mainstream and specialist settings. From EHCP guidance and curriculum adaptations to assistive tech, behaviour support and sensory needs, these resources are grounded in real classroom practice.
Whether you’re a teacher, SENCO, TA, or home educator, you’ll find honest, actionable advice to help every learner succeed — without sacrificing wellbeing.
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
When you are a teacher of autistic children, you have a really important role in their lives, you are in a position with responsibility to carry out a task that can impact their wellbeing for life. How often do we question our ability to do this? I don’t mean write a lesson plan. I mean educate a child who processes the world differently to you.
Tips for managing your emotions. Challenging Behaviour: Managing The Emotional Impact on Yourself Part of my current role involves training the new PBS instructors for the county special schools. This is a great opportunity to ensure a consistent approach and ethos towards challenging behaviour between schools. It is also a chance to collaborate and learn … Read more
This is a follow up to part 1 there are a huge number of great SEN blogs with ideas, resources, and inspiration for you to read and engage with. These are just some I have enjoyed reading and wanted to share them with you. Tracey Lawrence – Tweets as @behaviourteach Assistant head, and host of … Read more
The TEACCH Approach: Personalisation not Normalisation One of the main issues I have with labels is the group children with a huge array of skills, interests, and talents together and that leads to approaches to their education that try to suggest it will work with anyone who has that label. I have used the TEACCH … 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.
Audio version below. What is Special Education Teaching? Special education teaching is very different in ethos from mainstream education. In terms of pedagogical approaches it is highly specialised but not different. In terms of knowledge of the child and your teaching approach it gets to the root of why education is so beneficial a career. … Read more
Books to Teach Children About Autism This Is a guest blog by Andrea from A Bundle of Books children’s bookshop in Herne Bay. We were delighted to be asked to support a preschool in the first-ever Schools’ Autism Awareness Week. We wanted to find books about autism that enabled children to recognise and learn about … Read more
Challenging Behaviour: Differentiation in Discipline Updated September 2024. This discussion on Differentiation in Discipline may be one of the more contentious blog posts, School discipline is a constant concern in the press and for teachers. I am the lead for behaviour, mental health and pastoral care in a UK special school for autism and children … Read more
Reasons to Be a Teacher. Why we should celebrate being a teacher. More importantly what are the reasons to be a teacher? Shamelessly inspired by this post by Liz Allton Too often teaching is not recognised for the fantastic career it is. When you find a position where you can grow and learn there is … Read more
Getting Stuck: How the School Environment can Prevent Pupils Transition Autism can create barriers to inclusive education, we as teachers can also unwittingly create barriers to including pupils and making their education as effective as possible. We must take a moment to consider our actions and decisions in terms of how they may create issues … Read more
Transition and Change can be a challenge for many children. This discussion provides some strategies that may help.
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