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Supporting students with SEN during lockdown - My notes from a Podcast with Craig Barton

Supporting students with SEN during lockdown – My notes from a Podcast with Craig Barton

Recently I was a guest on Craig Barton’s Podcast https://www.dropbox.com/s/s53nrchw117965h/TfH%208%20-%20Jules%20Daulby.mp3?dl=0 talking about Supporting children with SEN during lockdown.

Below are my notes which I thought might be useful.

Introduction

Please could you tell us a little bit about yourself?

I’m currently Head of English in a special school. Previously I’ve worked in most…

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#inclusion #lockdown #SEN

To recognise relationships of privilege over vulnerability - @WomenEd 2020 pledge

To recognise relationships of privilege over vulnerability – @WomenEd 2020 pledge

He ran at us aggressively. His arms spread out wide and he was roaring loudly. A moment of fear for us until he stopped inches from our faces and then he walked away, laughing with his friends.

I was with my daughters (aged 11 and 14) on the 22nd December in Canterbury. We’d just come out of Zizzis, it was early evening and we were walking back to our accommodation along the high street. A…

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ADHD and Me! A family affair.

ADHD and Me! is a child-friendly book about a neurodevelopmental condition called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Claire has written it with her daughter Holly who did the illustrations and the book concerns Claire and her son, Jack, both of whom have ADHD.

The text is written as ‘we’ and ‘us’ which is refreshing as it immediately makes the book accessible because it is…

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#ADHD

Gathercole is great! Working memory for children with SEND

Gathercole is great!

How working memory affects learning for children with SEND and what to do about it.

Working memory has become two words which most mainstream teachers will now recognise. Many articles and workshops explore working memory and it is often linked to cognitive load theory. This is fine. Much of the research and evidence however has come from studies with children and…

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#gathercole #SEND #Working Memory

Being N.I.C.E. to parents

I created this acronym when I worked as a parent partnership officer for Dorset local authority. My role was in advocacy and I would support families who had children with special educational needs, empowering them to navigate both the legal framework and their communication with schools and LAs.

Working with parents and carers for a spell rather than the children…

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#inclusion #Parent Partnership

Let’s have a National Inclusion Commissioner (NIC) It’s staggering that Gove could asset strip Local Authorities (LAs), give anyone with a heartbeat responsibility for running schools and take out the middle tier leaving accountability only between individual schools and central government.

#inclusion

It's not fair! How the exam system sets up neurodiverse students to fail.

It’s not fair! How the exam system sets up neurodiverse students to fail.

I had the pleasure of talking at Haberdashers Girl’ school Teaching and Learning conference recently about how the exam system has become increasingly unfair for children with #dyslexia #ADHD #dyspraxia #SLCN #ASD – students with specific learning difficulties whom many now call neurodiverse.

A few of the shared traits for such students are speed of processing and working memory difficulties.…

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#Exams #memory

The return of the card sort

Ditch the card sort at your peril.

A card sort can be anything from cutting some information up and then piecing it back together to using cards with information and sorting into piles.

Card sorts get a bad press. Often described as a remnant of the past where teachers spent hours laminating and cutting up pieces of paper. The technique was, in my opinion unfairly blamed as part of the heavy…

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#card sorts

Being shocked keeps us human.

What appalls us initially can become normalised over time if we are exposed enough and our leaders show no reaction. This is especially true when there is motive attached to a mission such as improving life chances for the disadvantaged. Phrases such as ‘kill with kindness’, ‘tough love’ and ‘it’s for your own good’ purport to show care by ensuring short term suffering because ‘it will be better…

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#flatteningthegrass

The Art of Imperfection and the crap-o-meter

If I ask you what you’re crap at, I imagine you can give me a list. You can add it to my high tech, evidenced/based crap-o-meter if you like.

Exercise, not spending time with the kids, saying things I regret to students, spreading myself too thinly … the list goes on. But what about your strengths? Would you answer in a different way? Would you make a joke or be self-deprecating? ‘Let’s try…

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#wellbeing #womened

Giving SEND learners an equal shot at education

Exclusion has become a social justice issue and indicate that England’s education system is failing the most vulnerable.

This was my message at the SEND policy review organised by Brahm Norwich from Exeter University this week (4.2.19). I was invited to give evidence on preventing exclusions following my contribution to the Education Select Committee last year.

Figures on exclusions are bleak…

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#exclusion

#dyslexiadebate

Today, (31st January), I was debating with Professor Julian Elliot at UCL on whether dyslexia should remain as a label. I was called brave for agreeing to the #dyslexiadebate but I was beginning to wonder if I was just stupid! Still, Professor Elliot was welcoming and respectful and as is often the way with such issues, our common ground is wanting what is best for all children and finding the…

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#dyslexia

Mochadi and McDonald haircuts

At Kingston Maurward College Recently I attended a conference to learn more about literacy/SEND and EAL. The EMTAS (Ethnic Minority Traveller Achievement Service) secondary conference run by Hampshire LA is a service going from strength to strength. It’s bitter sweet for me coming from Dorset where I witnessed the EMTAS service close down, redundancies paid out and experience and expertise…

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#gypsy #Roma #Travellers

The Inclusive Classroom – final episode for Values-based education series. (episode 4) This is the final of four podcasts in my series on Values-based education in discussion with Jarlath O'Brien, Professor Linda Graham and Dr Jenna Gillett-Swan. Next series will be on dyslexia and whether the term is a valid one. Thanks for listening! Podcast

Literacy is Freedom

For those who cannot use it [literacy] are excluded from much communication in today’s world. Indeed, it is the excluded who can best appreciate the notion of ‘literacy as freedom’

UNESCO – Literacy Decade

This was my message today to headteachers of special schools at the @swalls_uk leaders two day conference.

But what is literacy? I began by asking what makes a good speaker, listener,…

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#literacy

My teacher hates me!

Students with ADHD can not only struggle to self-regulate, they can also experience heightened feelings of anxiety, joy, fear, anxiety, worry – every emotion really but sometimes in a more exaggerated form. Combine this with impulsivity, another trait of ADHD and there is a real risk of experiencing failure in school and a break down in relationships with teachers. Of course the teacher won’t…

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#ADHD #ITE

The Inclusive College

It was a pleasure to give the keynote on The Inclusive Classroom at Cardiff and Vale College this week. The day was organised by James Donaldson, Head of additional learning needs and wellbeing for the college. After a phone call, we discussed what I should include in my talk and I thought about it in this way:

the new reforms Wales will be implementing following on from England – learn from…

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#ADHD #dyslexia #inclusion #inclusive classroom

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