The SENCO Survival Guide: The Nuts and Bolts of Everything You Need to Know

The SENCO Survival Guide, Third Edition is an informative, accessible resource containing practical advice to help special needs teachers manage their responsibilities and lead their school effectively towards a common goal.

The book sets out a whole school approach to inclusion and supports teachers in mainstream or special schools at every key stage. This fully revised new edition features:

• a focus on high quality teaching, with ideas for classroom practice to include and engage all children and young people
• an introduction to special educational needs (SEN) support and education, health and care plans, based on the Code of Practice graduated response
• strategies to break the cycle of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) low achievement and guidance on how to create a SEND-friendly environment
• advice on the role of the modern SENCO, including assessment, provision mapping, preparing for OFSTED, disability discrimination and equality
• advice on training, managing and deploying teaching assistants effectively
• strategies to improve ‘pupil voice’ and independence
• ways in which the enhanced role of parents can be harnessed in order to achieve maximum success for learners with SEND conclusions from the author’s new ‘field research’ in mainstream, special and Post-16 settings

This resource gives special needs teachers the confidence, skills and knowledge to promote maximum achievement for learners with SEND and will help them develop and shape their schools’ policies and practices. It will also be of use to other members of staff looking for practical strategies to raise the attainment of pupils with SEN and disabilities.

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART 1: Identifying the needs of learners with SEND

Chapter 1: Rethinking SEND and Learning Difficulties

Chapter 2: SEN Code of Practice

Chapter 3: Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

PART 2: Providing for the needs of learners with SEND

Chapter 4: Inclusion: Access, Challenges, Barriers

Chapter 5: High Quality Teaching

Chapter 6: SEN Support: A Graduated Approach

Chapter 7: Education, Health and Care Plans

Chapter 8: Multi-Agency Working

Chapter 9: The SENCO Role

Chapter 10: A Whole-School Approach

Chapter 11: Developing Personalised SEND-Friendly Learning Environments

PART 3: Evaluating progress for learners with SEND

Chapter 12: Good Progress or Underachievement?

Chapter 13: Developing Pupil Voice and Independence

Chapter 14: Parents as Equal Partners

Chapter 15: Walking the (SENCO) Job

Conclusion: and SEND Review.