Much wisdom to be gained from Star Wars Teaching Quotes there is. Here is a selection of School, teaching, education, and leadership quotes from Star Wars films. I hope you fellow teachers, educators, and lecturers might find these inspiring or at least fun. Now updated with Some Rogue 1 movie quotes that fit into the …
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 …
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 …
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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. …
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 …
Teaching The Teacher Teaching and learning is the root of education. The two words go very well together. However, we often employ the phrase to suggest that we as teachers are doing the teaching and that it is only the students who are doing the learning. I dread to suggest it but I can imagine …
Teaching the Teacher: What my Students have taught me. Read More »
In Real Life: Devaluing Online Identity. This idea formed part of my presentation for the Wellbeing curriculum at the BETT show. I am going to say that the phrase “In Real Life”. Often used to distinguish between online activity and activity in our tangible immediate physical surroundings. Should be retired. The audio version below. Please …
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Implementing The Teach Like a Pirate Philosophy In Your Classroom One of my first discoveries of an education book that I could get behind and implement was Dave Burgess’s book Teach Like A Pirate, or #tlap as it’s known. Now I am a fan of pirates and need little encouragement to embrace Pirate culture. Now …
Autism and the barriers to friendship This is a situation that occurred a while ago and now both students are a couple of years into their new placements I feel it can be written and anonymity maintained. The names are made up, ‘Jack’ is what one of my current students calls me despite my trying …
Technology and SEN Children with additional needs do not have the same access to technology as their peers. Specialist equipment is very expensive. The school may have excellent provision, is this the same at home? In their residential provision? Will the same assistive technology or better be available to them in their future placements? I …
Technology For SEN: Adaptations and Accessibility. Read More »
Soon after discovering twitter I stumbled upon the #teacher5aday initiative. This is basically an attempt to encourage educators to reflect on how they can focus on their own well-being. Workload and stress are widely reported in the TES and other media. The great thing about #teacher5aday is that it doesn’t dwell on these but attempts …
Educational Motivational Speakers Inspiration is all around you. To be inspirational is a resource some people harness to make a living out of. There are schools full of people at this very moment who are giving inspirational speeches, to classes, and to individuals. There are those who are changing the ways people think about aspects of …
SEN Teaching Resources. As everyone is Special Education knows there are very few off the shelf resources suitable to use with our students. I put everything I make for my class on the free printable resources page. Click Here for our Free Resources Recommended Special Education Blogs Title Link Simply Special Ed https://www.simplyspecialed.com/ Mrs. D’s …
Here are some of my thoughts on the role of feedback and marking used for SEN students. These are my own thought and observations based on a small number of students with ASD and severe communication difficulties. Representative of only a small number of students in the education system but some elements probably apply to those …
This Blog is a follow up to my previous post, my plans and reasoning for the wellbeing Curriculum (My Original Post). In short it was an attempt to give meaning and context to the subjects of PSHE, Citizenship, e-Safety. The subject is timetabled form 11.30 to 3.30 on Mondays with a break for lunch, it …
Transition and Change can be a challenge for many children. This discussion provides some strategies that may help.
A Discussion on the Benefits of Adopting Topic Based Curriculum The introduction of the new KS4 science curriculum has prompted me to look at how we can implement the changes in a meaningful way for our students. Primarily autistic but with a range of needs and challenging behaviour. There were 2 options: Approach 1 This …
A Topic Based Year Long Approach to the New Science Curriculum Read More »
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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