The SEN specialist standards have been designed as an audit tool to help teachers and headteachers identify specific training and development needs in relation to the effective teaching of pupils with severe and/or complex special educational needs (SEN).
Working with the whole school community
- Student voice video
- Working effectively with parents video
- Involving teachers and teaching assistants in whole school improvement processes- ensuring whole school commitment to shared values
- Working effectively with the governors
- Working effectively with outside agencies and professionals
- Involving the wider community
- Cultures, policies and practices which create potential barriers to inclusion.
Every Child Matters
- Implications of multi-disciplinary working systems
- Examples of good/ best practice
- Incorporating the five strands into whole school improvement and strategic planning systems.
Data analysis
- The importance of well developed, effective whole school tracking systems
- Comparison between bought products such as Assessment Tracker, etc. and individual systems developed by the school
- Systems should be responsive to the needs of the individual school context
- Importance in data analysis lies not in inputting the data, but in actually analysing and responding to the results: effective ways to respond to the information.
- Target setting to meet the needs of all children
- Communication of targets and progress to pupils and parents
- Links between effective data analysis, self-evaluation and provision maps to increase a school’s overall effectiveness in meeting the needs of all children.
Inclusion as a whole school process
- Index for Inclusion
- Policy, practice, ethos, attitudes video 1
- Policy, practice, ethos, attitudes video 2
- Implications of current legislation: Code of Practice; Disability Discrimination Act – implementing the requirements of these within an inclusive whole school framework
- A parent view video.
The self evaluation tool
- Links to the OFSTED self evaluation framework
- Importance of effective school self-evaluation within education today
- Ways to approach self-evaluation: effective techniques
- Using information already available within the school context, analysing it appropriately and effectively to provide the information and reflection upon existing structures required
- Ensuring the commitment and participation of the whole school community.
Provision mapping and whole school development
- A whole school strategic decision making and planning system
- Looking at and planning for the needs of all children video
- Mapping provision appropriate to meet the needs of all children
- What is Provision Mapping?
- What are the benefits for the school?
- Implications for resourcing and continuing professional development (CPD)
- Different models of provision mapping - the need for flexibility and creativity in order to be responsive to the needs of the particular school
- Provision mapping and management as a cyclical process - stages of development and review
- Links with the school improvement process
- Provision mapping and individual education plans (IEPs).
