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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.
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Latest Resources
Sharing expertise
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- 14 Dec 2021
A range of noticing; instructional approaches and adaptive strategies for the scenarios
Complex Scenario Tayla
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- 14 Dec 2021
Exploring readiness to learn.
Working with Teaching Assistants
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- 14 Dec 2021
In what ways do teaching assistants impact the learning in the classroom?
Co-learning with (and as) experts
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- 14 Dec 2021
Our in-role expertise is not fixed, but develops as we learn and reflect.
MindEd Resources
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- 14 Dec 2021
Downloadable resources about the MindEd programme.
Complex Scenario Tomas
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- 14 Dec 2021
Supporting engagement and social development.
Teaching needs adaptive expertise now more than ever
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- 14 Dec 2021
The pandemic has opened up the debate about what it means to be vulnerable in education and who might ‘struggle to learn’.
Talking head: The moment I realised I couldn’t really crochet!
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- 14 Dec 2021
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.
The language we use
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- 14 Dec 2021
The language we communicate through our words and our actions is a beacon for the learners we teach.
Much Ado About Nothing
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- 14 Dec 2021
KS3 lesson planning ideas for a unit on Shakespeare’s
Inclusivity – A constant journey toward a shared vision
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- 14 Dec 2021
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.
Bell Curve Thinking: The Heart of the Matter
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- 14 Dec 2021
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
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- 14 Dec 2021
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.
Adaptive Skill – a commentary
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- 14 Dec 2021
Are we training teachers to develop ‘routine expertise’ or adaptive expertise?
Complex Scenario Hannah
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- 14 Dec 2021
A case study about supporting Hannah to work independently.
Teaching is a lifetime of learning
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- 14 Dec 2021
To a great extent, good teaching for pupils with SEND, is good teaching for all.
Diagnosis is not enough: Research that shapes inclusive teaching
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- 14 Dec 2021
Why we should reconsider our strategies beyond a child’s diagnosis and plan our support based on their actual relative strengths and challenges.
Children born pre-term
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- 14 Dec 2021
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
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- 14 Dec 2021
Enabling Maire to engage in individual and social learning in English and across the curriculum.
Noticing
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- 14 Dec 2021
What is noticing and why is it important?