BLOG
Your Link to Relevant Resources, Career Prospects and Encouraging Material
The Queens speech, earlier in the week, announced that there would be a complete overhaul to how SEN is dealt with, and will combine education health and care plans. This legislation is to be put into force in 2014. The Key Changes to SEN are listed below; Replacing SEN statements and learning difficulty assessments (for [Read more »]
Many of the symptoms of ADHD are talked about in such a negative light. However I was reading a really interesting article looks at the bright side of ADHD. I think it is important when working with children with ADHD that these symptoms are seen in a positive light as this can make the children [Read more »]
A new survey for the Prince’s Trust and TES, has shown that teachers and classroom staff, are being increasingly faced with evidence of malnutrition and poverty. Nearly a half of 500 teachers asked, see signs of this at least once a term, and classroom staff have spoken of their fears that most of the children [Read more »]
As Teaching Assistants, or for those of you becoming Teaching Assistants i’m sure that your not strangers to bad behaviour from children. I think a really great idea to help with this sort of behavior is : Behavior Ladders. These are the idea that you set out a “ladder” as such, this can be in [Read more »]
RSPCA week is soon! The 30th of April until the 6th May is the official week. Teaching Children about the lives of animals can help young people understand about their place in the world, So what can your school do to get involved with raising awareness and money for this great organization? The RSPCA website [Read more »]
It is important when working as a teaching assistant to manage children’s behaviour, and in particular disruptive behaviour, positively. Some great ideas and ways to do this are; Set a positive model – Make a model of behaviour, explain to children which behaviour you expect to see and make this clear to them every day [Read more »]
Many of our students who enrol on our Teaching Assistant Course, or Special Educational Needs Course are parents to children with Autism. So I thought that quite a few of you may be interested in the publication which is being published next Monday. Next Monday (Mon 2nd April) is the 4th annual Autism Awareness Day [Read more »]
Moving to a new class can be a daunting task for any Teaching Assistant – how exactly do you get to know the class – get them to trust you? All these thoughts can cross your mind and I recently found this great resource on TES which I thought I would share with you. “Passport [Read more »]
Many myths surround dyslexia, and we frequently get asked questions about it. If your hoping to work with Special Educational Needs children or as a Teaching Assistant I’m sure that this blog post will be very useful to you, so keep reading! Statement 1 You can tell that Children have dyslexia by the types of [Read more »]
I’m sure that many of you working with special educational needs children will know that at ties it can be difficult to integrate the child into a new class. Below is a great task to work as an ice breaker when you are trying to integrate a new class. The task is called “Find someone [Read more »]