How do we make it more likely that we create an environment so that learning is an emotionally positive experience? How does our own behaviour impact on those around us? This new guide created with Pivotal Education and Works 4 U provides some ideas to support those working in the FE sector to ensure that learning is an emotionally nurturing experience increasing the likelihood of learner success.
This guide is to help learning support staff. It provides examples of Covid-19 safe strategies that can be employed for different performance criteria within the National Occupational Standards for learning support staff. In addition is an activity for learning support staff to reflect on their own working practices and the strategies they can adopt.
This presentation put together by City College Norwich, ETF's Centre for Excellence in SEND (community) explains the Access to Work new processes as at the time of creation October 2020.
The Inclusive Employer Induction Tolkit was produced by City College Norwich, ETF's Centre for Excellence in SEND (community). This toolkit shares the current practices at CCN in delivering induction activities to employers of placements and apprenticeships.
The tools and techniques within the toolkit are derived from tried and tested tools that have been used extensively with employers. Each tool has a generic description and can be adapted by you in accordance with the requirements of the organisation.
An OTLA project by Novus to enhance the collaboration between Novus colleagues and vocational instructors to ensure that the embedded English provision complemented the vocational activities undertaken.
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 documents have been produced by City College Norwich, the Centre for Excellence in SEND theme Community. The zipped file includes three documents:
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.
