Ex Head Teacher in Special Education, now retired and doing things differently. My resources cover a wide range of school related topics that help to develop staff expertise and wider 'whole school development'. My resources also include numerous PSHE/Life Skill modules I have written and delivered in AP and SE.
Ex Head Teacher in Special Education, now retired and doing things differently. My resources cover a wide range of school related topics that help to develop staff expertise and wider 'whole school development'. My resources also include numerous PSHE/Life Skill modules I have written and delivered in AP and SE.
An Inclusion Plan Template that can be adapted for your school. The plan is usually completed by the form tutor and it provides all relevant information on the child that can then be used in meetings, EHCP reviews, ideal for planning appropriate provision and to provide appropriate information for Provision Mapping.
A worksheet that can be used with students who have an interest in using a metal detector; devised to encourage thinking about the topic and give appropriate information to those that are interested in exploring.
Do you teach a student with Dyslexia or a SpLD. This one page quick reference guide will give you some tips on how best to try and support them in their learning.
Teaching a student with ADHD? - this one page quick reference guide will give you some tips on how to manage the student in the classroom and how best to try and engage them
Do you teach a student with Asperger’s? This one page quick reference guide will give you some tips on how to manage the student in the classroom and how best to try and engage them
If you are new to Alternative Provision or Special Education, this ‘hands on’ guidance will identify all you will need to know for establishing your daily routines and expectations.
This resource can be adapted by SLT to be used as part of any induction programme for both teachers and support staff.
Using positive language is a feature of good classroom/behaviour management. This resource identifies both unhelpful phrases and statements and then a preferred way that uses positive language, that may initiate a better response from the student.
This resource guides staff into using appropriate questioning to help re-focus student attention - this was used as part of staff training to help my teams take more responsibility in the classroom for low level disruption, instead of referring the behaviour on to pastoral staff - this resource links to ‘Using the Levels of Behaviour’ and ‘Classroom Procedures’.
The procedures identified on this flow chart were the ones I put in place in my school to track student absence. The effective monitoring of such protocols will depend on the effectiveness of your tutor team, alongside good communication with the Attendance Manager.
Such tracking is vital due to increased levels of absence because of Covid 19 and the increased vulnerability of young people, especially those in Special Education.
A Learning Diary that enables any student or teacher the ability to monitor and track evidence of student work; this Learning Diary proved to be a very useful document in my School, to help record the successes of a student who could not engage fully in a mainstream curriculum. However, the student was an excellent citizen around the school, who developed his abilities through engagement of non-academic work which we needed to record.
The Diary/Log can also be used in formal lesson for students to record evidence of their work - the format of the template allows for this flexibility.
This resource can be used as a self - assessment/self-reflection document at the end of a module on forest or animal school. I wrote this for a teacher working with an autistic child, with a working at age of around 7-8.
There is a writing and spelling focus, but it could also be used as a document to help initiate discussion.
This is Part 3 of 3 Behaviour Support Programmes for Students.
The BSP Part 3 is a module of work that can be used with students who are at risk of FTE or indeed have received multiple FTE previously. The work would be ideally suited to students in Alternative Provision/PRU who have made mistakes, but are willing to reflect to try and improve things for themselves. It fits alongside BSP 1 which is also available.
The module consists of 6-8 lessons that cover the following topics:
What do I know about FTE?
Escape to an ideal world
My preferred future
Who is in control?
Making appropriate decisions
Stop, Think, Go
Preferred Outcomes
Looking at stress and me
Are you looking to refresh elements of your PSHE/Relationships/Life Skills curriculum in readiness for the start of the new school year.
This bundle will provide you with 19 complete modules that I have written and implemented for use in a Whole School Life Skills, PSHE or Relationships Education programs. They are written in lesson plan format and outline step by step the learning activities that need to be delivered.
This bundle contains modules that are appropriate for all schools which are linked to expectations for the National Curriculum and National Association for PSHE.
This Bundle has been updated to include additional resources…these include:
Using appropriate language to manage behaviour incidents - for personal or staff training use
The very popular IBP template
An isolation Reflection Form
A popular Behaviour Risk Assessment template
This Extensive Bundle contains all ‘Behaviour Related Resources’ from my portfolio that have been developed throughout my career.
The Bundle aims to support staff expertise in Improving, Managing and Tracking Behaviour in a range of establishments, as well as providing proven modules of work that can be added to a Life Skills/PSHE Programme to support student self-reflection and which has had proven positive impact, in a range of settings for students from a range of diverse and complex backgrounds.
Just Look at what this pack contains
Part 1 and 2 of my Behaviour Improvement/Life Skills Module for intensive working with small groups and 1-1 situations
Behaviour Training for all staff - using appropriate language/using appropriate questioning to redirect in the classroom, appropriate transition techniques
Staff self-reflection Behaviour Management assessment
Behaviour targets that can be used to track and monitor student behaviour
Extensive work on setting up your new student code of conduct
Bullying contract and exemplar letters
Advice on improving levels of FTE in your school
Using class behaviour protocols to support your teachers
The stopping swearing life skills module that helped reduce student swearing in my PRU
Behaviour Case Study template for putting together useful case studies for inspection
I am presently working with a student who regularly struggles to engage, therefore any evidence of his learning is important.
I have compiled an evidence folder to help collate his work, but in addition I have designed this log to record any learning he may achieve and if possible to support the recording of his thoughts and opinions regarding his work; the evidence log may indeed be completed by his key worker.
A useful resource to record evidence of work especially for those students who are struggling to engage at all.
An excellent resource for all those staff needing to track, monitor and trigger support for student behaviour; a useful resource that works alongside other SEN documentation as part of any action planning processes - this documents forms an evidence base over time of actions taken and the appropriate support that has been implemented.
I have added the Inclusion Support Plan as an additional resource with this package - both documents would work together.
A fun quiz I have recently written to show that having ADHD/ADD/ASD or similar disabilities need not stop you from being successful in life.
The aim is to use this with students who feel that their disability is hindering their life chances.
Do you have Peer mentors or Peer Mediators in your school…If not, then why not?
Peer Mentors can offer another layer of support for your Pastoral System in any educational setting; You will find that if the Mentors/Mediators become embedded as part of your Pastoral System, then other students will generally respond very well to them.
If students are trained correctly and they are given the responsibility and trust to work with younger students they can become an invaluable team in your school.
This support pack offers guidance and advice for your Mentors/Mediators as they move forward in their role; it gives advice on how to run a meeting, it identifies key questions to ask and key words to use alongside tips on problem solving.
I wrote this resource once I had trained up the Mentors in my Centre and they commented it gave them useful support in their role.
Buy the three Behaviour Support Packs that compliment each other well and save three pounds.
Behaviour Support Pack 1 - Getting Along with Others
Behaviour Support Pack 2 - Improving Behaviour through reflection and positive action
Behaviour Support Pack 3 - Exclusions and Me
**Bonus **- I have added:
The IBP as this is a great way to monitor and support individual student behaviour.
Using appropriate language when dealing with student behaviour
All of my packs have been written for class work and 1-1 situations and have been used widely in the provision where I was a Head; with proven results.
A very useful template for collating information on new students to your provision. This can be used by staff supporting the induction of new students or indeed by admin staff who support the collation of information on new students - Once completed this is a useful document to share with key staff who work with the student.
