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Resources and Publications

The Whole School SEND consortium regularly publishes resources to support you with all aspects of SEND. These include our SEND Review Guides and Frameworks, leaflets for parents, practical resources to support your work in educational settings, resources for specific contexts such as CPDL webinar recordings and more.

As a member of nasen and the Whole School SEND Member Community, you have free access to all of our resources – scroll through, use the filters or search for a specific resource. 

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Latest Resources

Sharing expertise Slide 1

Sharing expertise

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Mentor guide

A range of noticing; instructional approaches and adaptive strategies for the scenarios

Complex Scenario Tayla

Complex Scenario Tayla

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Exploring readiness to learn.

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Working with Teaching Assistants

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Classroom
Partnerships
Teaching Assistants

In what ways do teaching assistants impact the learning in the classroom?

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Co-learning with (and as) experts

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Adaptive

Our in-role expertise is not fixed, but develops as we learn and reflect.

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MindEd Resources

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
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mental health
wellbeing

Downloadable resources about the MindEd programme.

Complex Scenario Tomas

Complex Scenario Tomas

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Supporting engagement and social development.

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Teaching needs adaptive expertise now more than ever

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive expertise
Adaptive Teaching
Teacher Development

The pandemic has opened up the debate about what it means to be vulnerable in education and who might ‘struggle to learn’.

crochet

Talking head: The moment I realised I couldn’t really crochet!

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
Learning
Working Memory

Supporting a child to recognise the aspect of a task that they don’t know, but which would make a difference to them moving forward, is an important first step.

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The language we use

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Language

The language we communicate through our words and our actions is a beacon for the learners we teach.

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
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Lesson Plan Ideas

KS3 lesson planning ideas for a unit on Shakespeare’s

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Inclusivity – A constant journey toward a shared vision

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
Inclusion

Despite working in inclusion for years, it’s still easy to assume a shared understanding of the term, thinking that people know what we mean when we talk about it, but surprising how often these assumptions are misjudged.

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Bell Curve Thinking: The Heart of the Matter

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
Animation
Bell Curve
Inclusion

An animation to show how bell curve thinking can be challenged, so that all children are at the heart of the teaching and learning in the classroom.

Complex Scenario Safiye

Complex Scenario Safiye

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

This presentation aims to model the process of taking the initial steps in recognising that a child is struggling, and includes exemplary mentor guidance on how you identify the learners you plan to focus on in your classroom: those with additional needs.

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Adaptive Skill – a commentary

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive expertise
Adaptive Teaching
Cognitive Psychology

Are we training teachers to develop ‘routine expertise’ or adaptive expertise?

Complex Scenario Hannah

Complex Scenario Hannah

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

A case study about supporting Hannah to work independently.

Teaching is a lifetime of learning slide 1

Teaching is a lifetime of learning

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
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Learning

To a great extent, good teaching for pupils with SEND, is good teaching for all.

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Diagnosis is not enough: Research that shapes inclusive teaching

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Adaptive Teaching
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Diagnosis
Research
Working Memory

Why we should reconsider our strategies beyond a child’s diagnosis and plan our support based on their actual relative strengths and challenges.

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Children born pre-term

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Wider Resources
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Pre-term
PRISM

Meet Becky. She is 12 years old, born at 23 weeks gestation. She finds it difficult to concentrate, make friends, cope with multiple demands and she struggles with low self esteem.

Complex Scenario Maire

Complex Scenario Maire

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Complex Scenarios

Enabling Maire to engage in individual and social learning in English and across the curriculum.

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Noticing

  • General
  • 14 Dec 2021
Free
Permeating Themes
Classroom

What is noticing and why is it important?