[senco-forum] Changes to Access Arrangements for GCSE

  Hello everyone

  It looks to me like the exam boards have come to a compromise between people like me who have been SENCOs for twenty years but don't have a 'recognised qualification' and those who went down the dyslexia qualification route and not a more general SEN qualification route.
  from
  http://www.jcq.org.uk/attachments/published/347/Changes%20to%20Regulations%20on%20Access%20Arrangements.pdf

  From September 2007, teachers who assess candidates for access arrangements will no longer need
  JCQ approval of their specialist qualifications. However, JCQ does require that a record is kept of those
  teachers who will now be conducting the assessments. Therefore, centres must complete and return
  Form 8A (provided at Appendix B) to the address specified in the notes attached to the form.

  If the link doens't work, go to the JCQ website and follow the links to the Access Arrangements page.

  For those who like to know why I think I am qualified to assess for Access Arrangements when I don't have a 'recognised qualification' - I have an MA in Education (SEN / Inclusive Education) from the OU and I am an AST whose role is in Assessment for Learning.  That and twenty years of doing this job.  Don't usually blow my own trumpet but feeling justified in doing so just this once - more details about our Ofsted to follow.

  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO 
  Cornwall

Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall