Hear directly from a range of employers on how employing young people with special educational needs and disabilities has improved their businesses. The young people benefit but so do the whole workforce and their customers, and of course it’s the right thing to do! If you’d like a copy of this publication, do contact Teresa.Carroll@etfoundation.co.uk
A comprehensive step by step approach to understanding and using RARPA
This new resource explains the RARPA process and how it can be effectively implemented for learners with SEND. It brings together the information providers need to know about recent changes in national policy and practice for learners with SEND including a self audit tool to support continuous quality improvement. There are links to resources developed by providers and a range of person-centred thinking tools to ensure the learner voice remains central to the RARPA process.
An ETF/sunCETT (2019 -20) MA Short Course research report and poster exploring how to challenge negative stereotyping with students.
An ETF/sunCETT (2019 -20) MA Short Course research report and poster exploring 'positive' role modelliing in STEM subjects.
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.
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.
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.
