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    Supporting learners with additional needs: A three-tier approach

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    This guide outlines ways that learners can get the support they need without necessarily drawing on Additional Learning Support funding. Some learners don’t want to be singled out as
    needing extra help or to have a member of support staff visibly assigned to them. Enabling learners with additional needs to make good progress is as much about differentiated,
    inclusive teaching and learning, as it is about high-quality learning support. And additional support does not always have to take the form of an ALS practitioner, as learners’ needs

    SEND CPD Framework

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    This document presents the collation of a mapping exercise of SEND CPD training and qualifications support available from the Education and Training Foundation and, a wide range of other organisations. The inclusion of information from other organisations does not indicate a recommendation by the Education and Training Foundation of this offer. The information is provided to raise awareness to the SEND workforce of the variety CPD opportunities available.
    The information is presented in themes with a colour coding that indicates the target audience for the training.

    Showcasing learners capabilities to prospective employers

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    The Develop Cluster Group worked with the Mitie Foundation who co-produced a Business Challenge Day for their high needs learners. This enterprise day was to inspire and showcase our learners’ capability to prospective employers who could potentially offer work experience or paid work in the future. This zipped file includes the SEND Workforce Development Study Programme project's case study, dissemination presentation and employer leaflet.

    ETF teaching films

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    ETF worked to create a set of subject specific films where expert practitioners talked about tips and tricks of delivering their particular subjects. As some of the content seemed at times rather generic we have created two sets of films:
    1] Films where a teacher from FE talks generally about good teaching practice
    2] Films where the teacher talks specifically about teaching X, where X is their subject

    Download document with background and Youtube links

    Engaging Learners with Assistive Technology to improve outcomes

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    As part of the Improving Study Programmes for Learners with SEND, four colleges: Beaumont, Activate, Henshaw's and Langdon ran a progroject that focused on assistive technology. This zipped file contents the resource outputs from that project. Included is an introduction to their project, four case studies (one from each college), a map outlining the assistive technology assessment process and an IT access assessment proforma.

    Improving Learner Support

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    Preston College led a collaborative project focused on ways to improve learner support funded by ETF. They produced a number of outputs. You can watch their video, https://youtu.be/qAbiD1uEqRw, which explain the process the went through and the changes they made. You can download the zipped file containing: Tips to help practitioners work effectively with learning support assistants for the benefit of their learners and an example learner profile page.

    OTLA case study and a performance and quality management framework and toolkit of an operational project to build a performance management framework led by Skills for Growth

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    A case study and a performance and quality improvements management framework and toolkit. The overall aim of the project was to build and implement the ‘Pathway to Excellence’, a high quality performance management framework that would drive the quality of teaching, learning and assessment across all apprenticeships to ‘outstanding’.

    Outstanding teaching, learning and assessment: Promoting excellence in teaching and learning: Learning Framework and an evaluation of the Learning Framework from the Learning Consortium

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    This zipped folder contains two documents. The first is a document that describes the programme of activity implemented by members of the Learning Consortium, led by South Essex College, during the 2014-15 "Outstanding teaching, learning and assessment project." Central to the programme was the Learning Framework: a proven peer-led model which develops capacity for self-improvement in providers. The second document is an evaluation report examining a particular strand of the Learning Framework: its theoretical basis. 

    Burton and South Derbyshire College - OTLA Coaching and mentoring: Comparison of attributes and Tutor observation reflective record 2015

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    This is a reflective record which investigates coaching, mentoring and learner engagement. Two documents developed by Burton and South Derbyshire College. The first looks at coaching and mentoring by comparing the differing attributes of coaches and mentors. The second consists of a tutor observation reflective record template (2015).

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