[senco-forum] SEN-related condition miniguides

Agreed - everyone knew who was on the Record of Need.  I must say that 90% of those I work with are fantastic and know the pupils and their needs really well!  It's only the occasional one who doesn't.

  Also - we all tend to forget a pupil's needs if that pupil is coping well for a period of time.  

  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall

chris white <chris19251 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

The sure fire way to get them to read them is if the school has the 'dreaded
phone call'...it sure focuses the mind!!!
Chris

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[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Amanda
Sent: 24 September 2007 18:39
To: David Wilson; senco-forum
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] SEN-related condition miniguides

Thanks for these David. They are much prettier than mine which were written
to be printed rather than to be on-line. Most of the teachers in my school
have difficulty in accessing the school system easily. 
I have done something similar for all the conditions which affect pupils
in my school and I would be very willing to pass these on as well.

Now - anyone with any really good ideas for getting every single member of
staff to read the information I give out? The vast majority are great but
there are always one or two!!

Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall

David Wilson wrote:
Last year, one of the Performance Management objectives I perhaps rather
unwisely set myself was to create a series of staff miniguides about certain
SEN-related conditions and syndromes for the benefit of subject departments
within my secondary school. I decided that each miniguide would break down
into three parts: a description, a set of classroom strategies and a Web
link or two to access further information. My main motivation was to provide
educational rather than medical information, because I felt there was
sometimes too little of the former compared with the latter on support group
websites. I also wanted my information sheets to take up no more than 1 side
of A4, bearing in mind how busy colleagues are. I don't see these miniguides
as a substitute for more focused information-sharing, summarising the
contents of outside agency reports about individual students with SEN.
They're just designed to be a general aide-mémoire. So far the topics
covered are Tourette Syndrome, Dyspraxia and ADHD. They're currently on my
website at:

http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/sen/miniguide_tourette.pdf
http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/sen/miniguide_dyspraxia.pdf
http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/sen/miniguide_adhd.pdf

Anyway, I wanted to share what I've done with colleagues on this forum.
Please let me know how helpful you think these publications are. I know
they're still a bit rough round the edges, and the first guide is largely
another person's work (acknowledged). My intention certainly isn't to
"reinvent the wheel", so if I'm cloning somebody else's efforts, I'd like to
be aware of that too. Any suggested topics for future such miniguides would
be useful as well.

David Wilson
Harton Technology College, South Shields
http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/

Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall

Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall