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  • Special Needs being incorporated into teacher training?
    August 10, 2016 SpecialKids .Company

    Special Needs being incorporated into teacher training?

    It is interesting how when you type in “teacher training for special needs children”, Google offers courses for specialist teachers of SEN or for Teaching Assistants. However, since the 2014 Code of Practice the emphasis has been on inclusion and not intervention through withdrawal for small group or one-to-one teaching. Therefore, the landscape of teacher training should have changed with the Code of Practice: but is this the case?

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  • Different teaching techniques for children with special needs
    August 3, 2016 SpecialKids .Company

    Different teaching techniques for children with special needs

    Every teacher will tell you that the nirvana of teaching is pure personalisation. This means every child is being taught in a way that is suited to their needs. In reality, few teachers successfully achieve differentiation within a lesson on broad ability types. This is partly due to class sizes and partly due to a lack of training in how to address different children’s needs.

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