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South Camden City Learning Centre
Camden City Learning Centre held a SEN and ICT Conference for their teachers on the 12th of February.
The day was well attended by teachers from Camden and beyond and provided them with an opportunity to consider how technology may be employed in responding to a range of special educational needs. The day began with a keynote presentation by John Galloway who is a highly experienced advisory teacher and consultant for ICT and SEN.
19.02.10
Lamb Inquiry Extract
The Lamb Inquiry into Statementing and Assessment has been released
The report from the Lamb Inquiry was published today. The Lamb Inquiry was set up as a result of the Government's response to the House of Commons Education and Skills Committee Report Special Educational Needs: Assessment and Funding. The Inquiry's remit was to consider how parental confidence in the SEN assessment process could be improved, initiate and evaluate relevant projects and draw upon...
17.12.09
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School Matters. Special Needs: Inclusion
This video focuses on the debate arising from Baroness Mary Warnock’s apparent u-turn on inclusive education. It reviews the practical implications of the Government’s policy that advocates that only pupils with the most severe difficulties should be educated in special schools, some 11% of the total school population. The programme airs the views of Baroness Warnock, teachers from mainstream...
13.10.09
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Free journal articles – to October 1st
Up to 1st October Sage are providing free access to 20 Special Educational Needs journals. This is an excellent opportunity to scan the articles in specialist journals you may not have come across. On the journal homepages, you can do key word searches, look at abstracts and access whole articles. You do have to register of course and Sage suggest various services they could provide for you in...
28.09.09
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Maximising progress: ensuring the attainment of pupils with SEN
One of the major barriers to achievement for pupils with SEN or a disability is being rendered dependent on adults to help them learn. Many pupils with cognitive and learning difficulties lack self-confidence. This results in an over-reliance on an adult to support them with their work. SENCOs should be alert to this because there is a significant risk of ‘learned helplessness’. These materials...
27.08.09
Medical Conditions at School Policy Pack Logo
Medical Conditions at School
The resource is a website to provide information to School and healthcare professionals who are working with pupils with medical conditions. The website is visually well laid out and engaging. It is easily navigable, having four major sections, a menu down the left hand side and a statement of purpose all contained within the front page.
30.07.09
Excerpt from cover of transitions research report
Post-16 Transitions of Pupils with Special Educational Needs
This is a report on the first of five phases (called waves 1-5) of a longitudinal research study commissioned by the DfEE. It investigates the experiences, achievements and attitudes of young people with special educational needs during their transition from secondary education to early adult life. The aim of the study is to identify transition processes that are effective and where barriers are...
28.07.09
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How well new teachers are prepared to teach pupils with learning difficulties and/or disabilities
This is an Ofsted report undertaken in 2008 that examines the factors that contribute to good training for intending and newly qualified teachers in preparing them to meet the needs of pupils with learning difficulties and/or disabilities. It recognises the challenge of making sure the training is effective and illustrates how this might be achieved successfully.
18.12.08
TDA Primary SEN ITE materials
Introduction: Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities: Undergraduate Primary materials for ITE
This training resource was developed by the Institute of Education, University of London (IoE) for the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) to enable trainee teachers on three- or four-year undergraduate ITT programmes to undertake more in-depth study of teaching pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and/or disabilities.
07.11.08
SEN ITE Primary Logo
Inclusion, the individual and the Environment - Session One
This session is concerned with inclusion, the individual and the environment
06.11.08
Transition Pathway Mini
Transition Pathway: Guidance and tools to support person-centred planning for young disabled people aged 13–25
The Transition Pathway provides holistic, person-centred guidance and tools to support transition for young disabled people aged 13–25. This resource pack (sponsored by the European Union and Equal) was devised by a team of young disabled people, family carers and multi-agency professionals.
26.01.08
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Visual Impairment
A glossary item
24.12.07
Evaluation of the Communications Aids Project mini
Evaluation of the Communication Aids Project
This resource is an 'Evaluation of the Communication Aids Project (CAP)' carried out the Department of Human Communication Science, University College London in collaboration with the Centre of Health Economics, University of York, between July 2003 and April 2004.
19.11.07
TTV Anna's World Mini
Primary Special Needs - Visual Impairment in Mainstream - Anna's World
This Teachers TV programme focuses on a day in the school life of eight year old Anna, who has a severe visually impairment. Anna’s World is a personal perspective of her life in a mainstream Primary School. There are a range of contributions from a number of adults working with her including her parents.
01.11.07
ltscotland using digital video to review and assess positive behaviour mini
"Using digital video to review and assess positive behaviour: Video recording positive interactions with three boys with autism"
The resource [web page and video] is in 5 sections, with four video sections : Introduction page, Preparation [video extract], Learning aims page [video], The Lesson page [video] and Feedback page [video].The video shows a session at Dedridge Autism Base, a teacher and a nursery nurse are working with three boys with autism. First,they use a digital video camera to record the pupils’ interaction...
26.10.07
ttv a day in the life of a senco mini
Primary Special Needs - A Day In The Life of a SENCO
A video highlighting the SENCo’s role in the inclusion agenda as promoted through the ethos of this setting.
23.10.07
Effective Teaching Practices Mini
Effective teaching practices for students with and without learning difficulties: Issues and implications surrounding key findings and recommendations from the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy
The resource is a peer reviewed journal article authored by Ken Rowe from the Australian Council for Educational Research.
08.08.07