Teaching English and Drama in Specialist settings
- Online
- 19 May 2021 (15:30 - 17:00)
This webinar, for all staff working in special school settings, will focus on both drama and poetry. A key part of the English curriculum, the session will highlight how both areas can be used not only to extend pupils’ experience and understanding of language but also as a consolidator of emotional literacy.
What will this course cover?
- Storytelling and drama within the SLD English Curriculum – a detailed exploration
- Using language with those who do not speak
- Teaching empathy and the understanding of emotions through drama and poetry
What are the potential benefits to you and the children or young people you work with?
- Greater understanding of how to create opportunities for communication
- A deeper recognition of the key role that language can play in supporting emotional literary
- More confidence in supporting pupils who do not use spoken language as their primary means of communication
Suitable for: Assistant Head Teacher, Consultant, Deputy Head Teacher, Early Years Practitioner, Education psychologist, Governor, Head Teacher, Inclusion Manager/Leader, Newly Qualified Teacher, Other, SENCO, Senior Leader, Student, Support staff, Teacher, Teaching Assistant, Tutor
Meet your trainer
Dr James Galpin
Jamie is an Education Officer at nasen and leads on the development and delivery of the organisations CPDL programme. He is also a chartered Developmental Psychologist who specialises in universal difficulties that children and young people experience. He has been working with children and young people with SEN for the past 18 years. Whilst working both as an SEN teaching assistant and then as an SEN teacher, he completed his Master’s degree in Child Development. His interest in the practical applications of research then led him to complete a Master’s in Research in Education. Jamie went on to complete his PhD in Developmental Psychology where his focus was on emotion in children’s drawings and the relationship between language and drawing. Jamie continues to work in developing practice-based evidence and putting theory into practice in education.
Jamie has delivered CPDL to a range of education professionals including teachers, supports staff, SENCOs and other senior leaders on a range of SEND related topics
Meet your trainer
Steven Mills
Steven is the Creative Arts Lead at The Bridge Secondary and teaches Music, Drama and Literacy along with having his own tutor group. Over the past fifteen years, He has worked in various SEN settings, working with students that need support with Autism, SLD, PMLD, PDA and behavioural challenges. He has also worked as a Performing Arts teacher in mainstream and further education settings such as ALRA and Arts Educational and originally trained in the Performing Arts at Mountview Academy.
He is a trainer at The Bridge Training Centre and teaches Creative Arts and Literacy courses, as well as training PGCE students from Goldsmith’s University in voice and body language for the classroom. He has also worked as a trainer at other organisations such as MIND.
