Tomorrow’s leaders: a world beyond disability is a publication featuring young people who are all achieving great things in their own lives, in their communities and wider society. The Education and Training Foundation worked with the Council for Disabled Children to develop and publish the resource.
The publication contains inspiring stories from young people who are achieving their goals in:
These listening resources have been designed for use with New to ESOL learners. Each section of the listening resources corresponds to one of the units in the original New to ESOL materials.
These documents have been produced by City College Norwich, the Centre for Excellence in SEND theme Community. The zipped file includes three documents:
This resource has been developed for the Education and Training Foundation by Natspec to support providers who are currently – or who plan to be – working with learners with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD). Natspec has a wealth of experience in this area and is pleased to share that with the wider sector. Although there are many challenges to working with learners with PMLD, it is also enormously rewarding.
As more courses move online and tutors deliver more content through webinar style sessions, it becomes vital to understand both the benefits and the barriers of webinar-based lessons. The tools and platforms you have available may put constraints on how inclusive your webinar can be, this presentation accompanies the Making webinars more inclusive which explored some of the common issues and suggest ways to minimise their impact.
There are multiple causes for literacy difficulties, but whatever the cause, students working in isolation via online learning are more vulnerable to discouragement and failure. However, technology offers many ways of supporting learners with their online reading skills. The presentation document is from the Supporting learners with online reading skills webinar where these opportunities were explored.
How do we motivate and engage learners suddenly faced with learning independently online? This webinar will look at tools that can be used within a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) help to motive and engage learners by adding collaborative activities and gamification. The session will use Moodle to demonstrate features within a VLE to support online learning. The webinar will look at the use of forums, wikis, quiz and badges.
How do we support learners suddenly faced with learning independently online? This webinar will look at tools that build a route through learning content and provide offline support to learners. The session will use Moodle to demonstrate features within a VLE to support online learning. The webinar will look at the use of tracking, conditional statements, glossaries and forum. Supporting learners in VLEs is supported by modules on the Enhance Digital Teaching Platform.
This webinar show how you can take a class presentation (PPT) and quickly adapt it for online use. We’ll look at the inclusion of audio, video and the use of notes to help learners here all the extra information you normally say in class. We’ll explore how you can combine tools (Nearpod with Skype/Zoom or Teams) to make structured but interactive online sessions using your presentation as a starting point.
How can you make virtual classrooms work in practice? In this webinar we’ll explore how tools that are commonly available in webinar software can be used to create different pedagogical approaches for online delivery. For the session we will use Zoom, whose free version includes chat, feedback status, screen sharing capabilities, whiteboard and breakout rooms.
The webinar was supported by modules on the Enhance Digital Learning Platform.
