During a recent future of SEN webinar, a lot of great discussion was opened up among both the panel of SEN experts and the diverse audience of teachers, SEN leaders and senior managers. Raising interesting points about access to technology, engaging parents, key challenges for the future and supporting students emotional & mental well being. Find out the panel’s thoughts on the most commonly asked audience questions from the day.
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An exploration of 5 significant learning spaces: The Classroom and the School; Beyond the Classroom; The Electronic Learning Space; The Individual Learning Space; The Group Learning Space.
Learn how to increase communication effectively with children through the use of sign language at home or in your early childhood development program. We hope you will use this information to guide you through the process of introducing and using sign language successfully in your classroom or home. Visit http://hatchearlylearning.com/webinars for upcoming events and recordings.
Lili Levinowitz and Lauren Guilmartin of Music Together share how music can be used to engage families in children's learning and how to encourage learning at home!
Dr. Sharon Ritchie of FirstSchool shares startling statistics and information about who is left behind in our current early education system, despite increased focus on making school 'great' for everyone.
Reason, Reflect, Resolve: Thoughts About Learning SpacesLee Hoffmann
An exploration of 5 significant learning spaces: The Classroom and the School; Beyond the Classroom; The Electronic Learning Space; The Individual Learning Space; The Group Learning Space.
Learn how to increase communication effectively with children through the use of sign language at home or in your early childhood development program. We hope you will use this information to guide you through the process of introducing and using sign language successfully in your classroom or home. Visit http://hatchearlylearning.com/webinars for upcoming events and recordings.
Lili Levinowitz and Lauren Guilmartin of Music Together share how music can be used to engage families in children's learning and how to encourage learning at home!
Dr. Sharon Ritchie of FirstSchool shares startling statistics and information about who is left behind in our current early education system, despite increased focus on making school 'great' for everyone.
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Dr. Nicola Yelland of Victoria University shares her experience with the use of technology in classrooms around the world and how educators can use technology to tailor learning in their own classrooms.
One of the most popular Hatch 'Super-Power' Webinars to date! Brian Puerling shares awesome ideas for using various technology in the early learning classroom. From publishing books, to classroom blogging, and plenty of other new ideas to take away to your education programs.
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A follow up on the event, What's Next wherein principals, counselors and influencers from the education industry contributed on creating a blueprint for education for tomorrow
Learning with New Technologies: Encouraging and Scaffolding Activities & Expl...Hatch Early Learning
Dr. Nicola Yelland of Victoria University shares her experience with the use of technology in classrooms around the world and how educators can use technology to tailor learning in their own classrooms.
One of the most popular Hatch 'Super-Power' Webinars to date! Brian Puerling shares awesome ideas for using various technology in the early learning classroom. From publishing books, to classroom blogging, and plenty of other new ideas to take away to your education programs.
http://www.hatchearlychildhood.com/webinars
A follow up on the event, What's Next wherein principals, counselors and influencers from the education industry contributed on creating a blueprint for education for tomorrow
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2015Oct17 - Problems faced by Teachers - Faculty Development Programme - Aurora Degree and PG College, Hyderabad.
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Slides for providers and practitioners to use to reflect on the challenges they face in delivering remote education during the pandemic. The lessons learnt can also inform future planning for children and young people with SEND. For more information and a video, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/remote-education-and-send/how-remote-education-is-working-for-children-and-young-people-with-send
Educational technology, sometimes shortened to EduTech or EdTech, is a wide field. Therefore, one can find many definitions, some of which are conflicting. Educational technology as an academic field can be considered either as a design science or as a collection of different research interests addressing fundamental issues of learning, teaching and social organization. This slideshow presentation contains the important information about the importance of technology in the field of education.
Six professional conversations on topics pertinent to contemporary teachers in the digital age of education from the Leading a Digital School Conference, Melbourne Australia 2013.
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1.)Describe the changes that you believe colleges will need to make over the next 3-7 years to adapt to the following groups in order to be effective in facilitating emotional, physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual development: Homelanders, Millenial students, and Adult learners. In the next few years colleges will need to change to the learning styles of new generations such as Homelanders, Millenial students, and adult learners. Virtual assistants, flipped classrooms and the quantified self are three of the six technological developments that will have a significant impact on higher education within the next five years. Instructors have presented information by lecture since Socrates to the benefit only of linguistic learners. If you're visual or hands-on you've been teacher disabled. Helping students learn according to their learning styles and multiple intelligence preference is finally becoming accepted as an instructional strategy. Many students naturally learn how to learn when they realize they learn better from one resource or strategy over another. For many learners, this concept is too refined or it flies in the face of the teacher authority. Young children like to learn with hands-on methods, but the system quickly moves them to learn by listening. Parents try to help by pointing to smart students and suggesting that their offspring emulate the learning strategies that work for others. Following the path set by others won't work. In fact, we all learn differently. It's a wise parent and facilitative instructor who realizes this and helps the student identify their strategies to meet it. As we work extensively in technology, we see that learners now have access to a variety of instructional strategies. In many cases, the learner selects the path to the strategy. The search for knowledge becomes the learner's intrinsic reward, rather than an extrinsic reward provided by external authority. This may make the learner more motivated because they find it easier to learn. Research in learning technologies may eventually show us that students learn more quickly and deeply so that they apply the information and solve problems. A school can be in the worst neighborhood, but a satellite dish on the roof and fast Internet access on ten classroom computers, positively impacts learning. It could be that we're saving generations of children. Many learning style models exist; my favorite is Albert Canfield's. It has a strong research base, uses clear language, reports in percentiles, and helps stude.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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2. Following on from their #SENFutures webinar,
our panel of SEN experts answer the most
commonly asked audience questions from the
day. Raising interesting points about access to
technology, engaging parents, key challenges
for the future and supporting students
emotional & mental wellbeing.
3. Adjusting to a new normal
"We've been sharing pictures of what the classrooms
will look like when pupils come back. Which is quite
helpful for ASD students, with less distractions. We're
focusing a lot on well-being and resilience for our
pupils on return to the classroom."
Vicky Schoenhofen, Specialist Support Teacher from
South Lanarkshire, local authority
4. Q) How can we incorporate these newly discovered different
learning styles into our new normal of learning once back to
school?
We know that technology has seen considerable growth in
usage over the period of remote learning, and it’s brought
out many strengths in our pupils. It's going to be important
that we support and maintain this use going forward -
embracing tools that have worked well, or that pupils have
responded to. Helping to keep the consistency of learning
in ways that pupils have enjoyed - CPD will be key to this.
5. Q) With social distancing still in place, support will be hard.
How can we provide consistent, quality support with current
guidelines in place?
Guidance is changing now on an almost daily basis - from
smaller class sizes to new models of student bubbles. We’re
going to have to be adaptable. We may have a long way to
go before things are even close to how they were.
Challenges may well be around device access more than
classroom layout, because even if social distancing is less in
place than first thought, cleanliness of technology may well
become challenging.
6. Q) We see a big regression in literacy levels (spelling and
writing especially) not only in students with SpLD but in
general, any suggestion on how to address that?
There may be many reasons for this - we’ve seen a lack of
motivation in students and a thought that perhaps work
wasn’t being checked or assessed as it usually would. We’ll
need a focus on better feedback and a real effort to
understand how to better motivate students when they are
learning outside the classroom.
7. It’s also been important to strike a balance between
technology and paper, and that balance still has to
be found - it’ll be individual for most students.
Technology though has a role to play here. As an
example for writing in particular we need to
understand how to provide motivation. These are
all key to driving the levels upwardly. Level and
frequency of feedback is crucial as has been
providing work in smaller chunks than perhaps we
did at first.
8. Q) In terms of cultural poverty do the panel feel that there
are any ways around this being an issue when such a lot of
generic work being issued electronically - especially for
students with SpLD dyslexia?
In terms of accessibility every teacher should be aware of
the need to have resources be accessible, and the help and
support to enable this. It’s also vital to provide students
with the technology they need to support their learning.
Tools such as Read&Write can help both ways - teachers to
create accessible resources quickly and easily, and provide
students with the support they need to have genuine equity
of access.
9. Q) For SEND children that have alternative provision as part
of their 'usual' support package, how has this been
accessed/supported during remote learning? How would you
see this evolving moving forward?
Each student has been treated on a case by case basis. For
the vast number of students who require access to
clinicians, carers or therapists that has continued unless of
course they fall into the vulnerable category - we expect
that to continue as the situation unfolds next academic
year.
10. Using technology to support your SEN
learners
"We need to continue the work we've been doing.
Students have been getting more confident but the
big thing we've noticed is that we need to up-skill
parents and carers, particularly with our vulnerable
groups."
Charlie Love, Education Support Officer for Aberdeen
City Council
11. Q) Please can you share the apps/tools
that some of you are using?
12. Purple Mash, Loom, Screencastify (for video notes
or creation), Seesaw, Read&Write, Google
Classroom and YouTube have been the main tools,
plus a variety of apps that support literacy and
numeracy. Another great resource has been Oak
Academy who now have both EYFS and SEND
resources. There are also some good examples of
tools on the DfE website.
13. Q) We have been told that safeguarding does not permit
any video connection with pupils under 16. What other
support tools do you recommend to engage directly with
students?
The current guidance on this is now thankfully much clearer
- it is now up to the individual school to allow the use of
video, assuming they are satisfied with safeguarding. There
are a number of sensible steps to take around video, and
tools such as Google Hangouts and Zoom now meet the
requirements for safety and security.
14. Union positions may well differ from this, but this is
the official position of education departments now
across all four regions in the UK. Video provides an
important connection to students - but
safeguarding is crucial.
15. Q) Have there been any settings using a blend of physical
and digital resources, for those SEND learners who need a
more physical learning experience?
Some schools have provided physical resources as part of
the ‘take home’ packs to students, whilst others have
encouraged parents to include physical resources and
integrate them. There has been no formal approach to this -
individual teachers know best.
16. Engaging schools, students and parents
“We took a very inclusive approach, so we were aware
that this was an unusual situation, and it was really nice
that parents felt that if they had a problem, or they had
a concern, they could, kind of, chat using the Google
Classrooms as well.”
Kath Lawson, Director of Inclusive Services at Arete
Learning Trust
17. Q) How has parent confidence in supporting students with
SEN been?
It’s been exceptionally good and supportive. For the
majority of SpLD parents, they have been very aware and
involved in supporting their children, in the main because
parents understand the individual needs and have been
integral to supporting their children prior to lockdown.
18. For parents where children require more general
support, we’ve found parents are engaging with
technology in particular and seeking help in how
best to support them. We’ve had to ensure
throughout lockdown that parents get support on
both learning and on technology - that's been
critically important. The parents role has been
considerable.
19. Q) How can it be advised to SLT that no engagement
doesn't mean it's a SEND department responsibility? How
can we encourage a whole school/all teacher
responsibility?
Every teacher has to be a SEND teacher. The lock down has
brought this home very clearly. DfE have driven the
messages, as have SENDCos and teachers are now seeing
first hand the real need to put accessibility and individual
support front and centre. We’ve a lot of work ahead to do
on this.
20. Engagement in general has been a challenge
throughout lockdown - the average student is
working on school work for two hours per day.
While some students have excelled, many simply
lack the structure or the access to be more
engaged.
21. Level of work has also been an issue - in the early
days of lockdown, the level of material sent to
students was overwhelming. There are many
reasons for lack of engagement, and as we reflect
on remote learning SLT will have to understand the
many dynamics that are outside of the SEND
departments control and remit - this is about
shared responsibility.
22. Q) Do you advise hosting web tutorials with parents to
show them Read&Write and other tools?
Absolutely, this is key to successful learning at home.
Parents want to understand what these tools are, how they
help and what they can do to utlise these tools to support
their children. At Texthelp, we’ve built special areas for
parents to help them in all these areas, and we've hosted
webinars just for parents.
23. We need to see others in the industry doing the
same so teachers can help support the nuances of
usage with individuals. There's no better time than
now to get parents involved in learning and
hopefully keep them there going forward!
24. Approaches to Early Years
“We must be mindful of how tech is being used in
younger years. We need to ensure it doesn't hinder
socialisation, emotional development and speech and
language development. It can't solely be the delivery
method for intervention."
Simon Tanner, Director of SEND at Bohunt Education
Trust
25. Q) We are using Seesaw but struggling with 4 and 5 year
olds with SEN - using picture exchange, thinking skills, turn
taking and team building - still not sure how this can be
covered through technology?
It's vital to have parents involved with the technology at this
age level. We also have to remember that technology has a
time and a place for being effective, and understand its
limitations. Turn taking and collaboration are hard remotely
- so we have to focus on the areas we can work on. We’re
never going to be able to replicate the classroom remotely
and offer genuine holistic experiences.
26. Q) I work as a SEN EYFS teacher. We’re really struggling with
behaviour changes since returning. Any recommendations on
how best to support students returning to school, especially
younger learners?
As things look ahead, we may be in a more ‘normal’
environment than we first expected with less distancing
and a reliance on bubbles. Taking time to settle students, to
provide consistency and to reduce the visibility of obvious
changes is important. These radical shifts in their young
lives are hard, it’s going to take time.
27. Managing mental health and well being
“When we haven't seen anybody for that first three
months, it's been really, really helpful, I think to help
people feel that connection.”
Deborah Kennedy-Martinet, SENCo and Assistant Head
of A'soud Global School
28. Q) We have done primary and secondary live assemblies that
have pulled the community together. What is the panel's
experience of this?
These have been brilliant and very useful. School is about
community, and live assemblies have been a great way to
link everyone together, albeit briefly. But it’s not for
everyone and we’ve had to respect that.
29. Q) What strategies have been used to address mental health
and wellbeing needs during this time? Have interventions
been taking place to support students with this - the change,
anxiety, isolation?
There are a number of steps to put in place that apply
equally to classroom life, but the most important thing is
communication - little and often has worked best. We’d
recommend you...
30. ● Stay in contact as much as possible
● Encourage them to think about their support
networks
● Ask what support would help
● Have a conversation about routine and structure
● Help them access all their work simply
● Send work in small bites
● Work in partnership with other key members of staff
and families
● Direct them to useful resources.
● Look after yourself!