Special Education: Life beyond school
f teaching is a vocation then working in the field of special needs is a calling.
Why is Inclusive Education Essential?
Inclusive education is at the heart of education thinking in the UK but seems constantly challenged by policies such as Zero Tolerance behaviour and spending cuts that remove the support so important for our children to thrive in school.
6 Awesome Ways to Engage Reluctant Learners.
In this post I am classing reluctant learners as those who often do not finish tasks, they may do the minimum to get by or even flat out refuse to take part. As inclusive teachers we constantly have to be mindful of the drivers of the child’s behaviour. The key to creating engaged learners is to know the child and the barriers they face. Some issues may go deeper and require additional specialist support. A class teacher dedicated to engaging their students can have a huge impact on the students experience of education and their outcome in life. Engaging learners is as much about emotional confidence as intellectual propensity so make that bond and enable all to achieve
Making your classroom Inclusive for all learners: Approach
Creating An Accessible Classroom Making sure your classroom is accessible to all learners is a crucial step in creating…
Making your classroom better for all learners: Environment
The importance of an inclusive school learning environment Every student, whether in special schools, an alternative provision or general…
13 Questions to ask to ensure you are an inclusive school.
This is blog post is primarily school-based and SEND focused, but can any education or care setting that strives…
People Who Help Us: Printable Teaching Resources.
Free Printable SEN teaching resources focusing on firefighters and people who help us.
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Remembrance Day: Free SEN resources
These are the resources I have made to use with my class to support learning about Remembrance Day this November. Poppy themed with a UK focus all use similar images and symbols . I hope they are of some use with your children.
Social Stories: Hero Cards & Rules
Social stories are a tried and tested way of teaching social skills but for some learners they are too much. I needed a way to remind a student of the rules but in a way that didn’t single them out as being the focus of the story. Some people will say this won’t work as autistic children can’t generalise…. but anyone who has worked with autism knows a lot of what people say is actually a myth or just does not apply to an individual.
Transport Topic Teaching Resources 2
Free Printable Transport Topic Teaching Resources for EYFS, KS1 and SEN This post contains some more transport topic-themed free…
Challenging Behaviour: Teaching Alternative Behaviours
Improved Communication Through Alternative Behaviours Many young people I have taught have found efficient and effective ways of communicating…
10 Reasons ECTs Should Work in Specialist Provision.
Early Career Teachers (ECTs) – Consider Special Schools when you are Job Hunting. If you are a recently qualified…
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Guest Blog: Developing a CPD model
Lynn McCann writes this post about developing an effective model for delivering continuing professional development courses. She supports a…
Autism: Facial Expressions and Interactions
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.
Challenging Behaviour: Managing The Impact on Staff
Tips for managing your emotions. Challenging Behaviour: Managing The Emotional Impact on Yourself Part of my current role involves…
Challenging Behaviour: 5 reasons your strategies aren’t working.
How To Effectively Manage Challenging Behaviour When faced with displays of behaviour that challenge most schools resort to sanctions…
Excellent SEN Blogs to follow: Part 2.
This is a follow up to part 1 there are a huge number of great SEN blogs with ideas,…
Autism, Structured Teaching and the TEACCH Approach
The TEACCH Approach: Personalisation not Normalisation One of the main issues I have with labels is the group children…
Excellent SEN Blogs to follow: Part 1.
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.
Differentiation in Discipline: Behaviour and Connection
Challenging Behaviour: Differentiation in Discipline Updated July 2023. This discussion on Differentiation in Discipline may be one of the…
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