[senco-forum] Help

Hi Angela
  Yep - this situation does remain.  Not usually 'nut cases' but more often 'dumbos' or 'losers'.  What you need is someone with real street cred who has some sort of leaning difficulty.  How you find him (and mine was a him) is a bit of luck but when you do, celebrate the successes and make the support visible.
  Also you need to make sure that staff aren't unwittingly reinforcing the stereotype.  It's good to be in set 1 for maths and science with literacy support and set 5 for English if you are dyslexic but it won't help if staff won't reward knowledge demonstrated through means other than reading and writing.
  Give 'your' kids pride - give them privilages if you can.
  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall
  Back to the grindstone today - first job is to clean my office and move the furniture back in!

Angela Karuga Mutinda <angela.mutinda at gmail.com> wrote:
  I'm having a problem at school at the moment and was wondering if anyone had
some good ideas.
I had a chat with a parent on Friday who said that the Learning Support
students are all seen as nut cases. Apparently everyone who I teach must be
a nutcase.
We have a EAL teacher in school and he doesn't seem to have the same
problem.
I've thought about asking the form tutors to use PSHE to desensitize the
students.
I could also have a session with the parents but would I then hav eto do it
for all parents?
In my last school it took ages to erase the stigma!
Angela

On 31/08/06, Sanderson wrote:
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> I am new to this, could anyone give me any help with where I could
> purchase
> WRATS (assessment test) and toe by toe.
> Thanks Sue
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Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall